儿童保健学是最具有特色的儿科亚专业学科之一，它既是儿科学的基础，又与儿科很多亚专业有学科交叉，近年来发展迅速的发育行为儿科分支更是具有非常鲜明的临床专科特色。作为已经具备一定儿科学基础知识的研究生的儿科英文课程体系建设课程，儿童保健学将聚焦目前世界卫生组织推荐的儿科医生必须具备的、最新版的儿童生长及营养评估方法的基础上，着重介绍近年来在国内外飞速发展的发育行为儿科学的新理论、新进展以及新的适宜技术。从发育行为儿科的发展史开始，通过介绍儿童智能发育的进程及其遗传神经生物学基础、智能发育的评估方法与技术、影响智能发育的环境因素、早期营养对神经心理发育促进作用、智能早期开发的预见性指导以及母孕期环境因素对儿童神经心理发育影响的最新研究方法及技术介绍等一系列目前国际上最前沿的知识与内容。授课老师均为在国外有多年工作和学习经验的该领域目前国内顶级专家、教授。本课程最大的特点为，在帮助学习了解儿童保健领域最新知识的同时，提高英语会话及阅读能力。教学将采用双语、讨论式模式，结合参加学生的英语能力，开展形式活泼地互动式教学方法。

Child Health Care is an unique specialty in Pediatrics, not only because it is the basis of all other pediatric specialties, but also it has many interactive relationship with other specialties in Pediatrics. Recent year, Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics has been rapidly developed in the world. As one of the major curriculums in graduate student courses, Child Health Care curriculum will focus on the most recent recommendation of child growth chart and nutritional surveillance system from WHO, address child development and behavior knowledge, and introduce the new theory, advance technology, et al. Starting from the history of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, we will introduce the milestone of child neuropsychological development and it's neurobiological mechanism, the new assessment tools of neurodevelopment, environmental factors related to neurocognition, early nutrition on neuropsychological development, how to effectively implement the program of care for early child development, and the prenatal environmental exposure on early child development. Those advanced knowledge and technology were all taught by experience professors with different background, from Pediatric nutrition, Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Environmental Science, epidemiology, et al. All the faculties have at least one year training experience aboard and are national top experts in this area. This aim of this curriculum is to deliver the most advance knowledge in child health care, as well as to improve students' English communication and reading skills. All the teachers will use both English and Chinese in the class, and encourage students to use English in the discussion and other interactive sessions.