Growth and Nutrition course
This session covers assessing normal and abnormal growth, puberty and essential nutrition. This session uses self assessments that help you check what you have learnt. You do not have to use them and your answers are not seen by anyone else.
Learning objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:
- Interpret age and sex dependent height, weight and body mass index (BMI) charts
- Describe growth changes at puberty
- Interpret abnormal growth trends:
- Obesity including growing into your weight
- Underweight and short stature
- List essential nutrition and risk factors and nutrient deficiencies
- Identify the uses and limitations of the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP)
Charlotte Harrison is a Paediatric Specialist Trainee in Nottingham. She is particularly interested in providing holistic care to children within the Community.
Rachel is a part-time GP and trainer in Redditch, Worcestershire, with particular interests in child obesity, adolescent health and women’s health.
She was appointed Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Clinical Champion for Nutrition for Health in April 2011 and established the RCGP Nutrition Group in 2013.
Rachel contributed to the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges Obesity Steering Group 2013 report:- ‘Measuring up: The medical profession’s prescription to the obesity crisis’.
She contributed to the 2013 Royal College of Physicians ‘Action on Obesity: Comprehensive care for all report’, which looks at how the NHS should adapt to meet the needs of an increasingly obese nation.
Rachel has written two books – ‘Weight Matters for Children’ and ‘Weight Matters for Young People’, Radcliffe Publishing 2006. She has co-authored the obesity modules of the e-Learning for Health Adolescent Health Project and is a member of the RCGP Adolescent Health Group.
She has completed a research project in conjunction with Warwick University, examining the practicalities of offering a child obesity prevention intervention in primary care.
Rachel is married to a GP and we have three boys.
- Anaesthesia | Learning Resources for RCoA Airway L...
- Posted By eIntegrity Healthcare e-Learning
- Posted Date: 2026-08-15
- Location:Online
- This session will enable you to recognize the available tracheostomy tubes and choose the appropriate tracheostomy tube for a given setting.
- Anaesthesia | Learning Resources for RCoA Airway L...
- Posted By eIntegrity Healthcare e-Learning
- Posted Date: 2026-08-15
- Location:Online
- This session will define the indications, contra-indications and complications of percutaneous tracheostomy in the intensive care setting.
- Anaesthesia | Learning Resources for RCoA Airway L...
- Posted By eIntegrity Healthcare e-Learning
- Posted Date: 2026-08-15
- Location:Online
- Post extubation airway difficulties occur relatively frequently. These have the potential to cause morbidity and mortality, especially if managed poorly. The aim of this session is to recognize and manage airway complications that may occur following extu
- Anaesthesia | Learning Resources for RCoA Airway L...
- Posted By eIntegrity Healthcare e-Learning
- Posted Date: 2026-08-15
- Location:Online
- This session examines three variations of the classic laryngeal mask airway (LMA Classic® or cLMA): the intubating LMA (ILMA®), the flexible LMA (LMA Flexible® or FLMA) and the LMA Pro-Seal® (or PLMA). It co
- Anaesthesia | Learning Resources for RCoA Airway L...
- Posted By eIntegrity Healthcare e-Learning
- Posted Date: 2026-08-15
- Location:Online
- This session introduces the three gases and vapours that are commonly used for induction of anaesthesia: sevoflurane, halothane and nitrous oxide. The relationship between the physical properties of the agents, how the agents build up in the lungs during
