Kid AID Coach
An educational module for training the assessment of the general condition of infants and young children. It guides through realistic clinical scenarios – from the medical history, through recording analysis, to a decision with immediate feedback.
What is Kid AID Coach?
Kid AID Coach is an educational module allowing the skill of assessing the general condition of infants and young children to be practised.
The application guides the user through realistic clinical scenarios – from the medical history, through video recording analysis, to taking a decision and receiving immediate feedback.
IMPORTANT: Coach is not a diagnostic tool. Its purpose is to build and accelerate professional practice – transforming experience into accurate decisions when dealing with the youngest patients.
How Kid AID Coach works
Five steps – from history to feedback. The full learning cycle in approx. 15 minutes.
Medical history
The user receives information provided by parents as the reason for bringing their child to the doctor. This helps systematise the patient's history before the examination.
Audiovisual material
The app presents a short recording of the child from the Kid AID project database, along with vital parameter values:
- Body temperature
- Oxygen saturation (SpO2)
- Heart rate
- Respiratory rate per minute
Health status assessment
The user assesses the child's condition based on the history, recording and vital parameters, then decides:
- Does the patient require hospitalisation and extended diagnostics? What decision would they make?
- Can the patient be treated on an outpatient basis?
Diagnostic and treatment proposal
The user proposes:
- Diagnostic procedures (laboratory, microbiological, imaging tests)
- A treatment plan appropriate to the assessed clinical condition
Feedback
After completing the scenario the user receives detailed feedback:
- Assessment of the appropriateness of decisions made
- Comment on the optimal course of action
- Priority of investigations depending on clinical condition
- In selected cases – information on subsequent disease course (follow-up)
Who is Kid AID Coach for?
Medical students
Medicine, nursing, midwifery, paramedics – as a supplement to theoretical knowledge with practical case studies.
Junior doctors and residents
At an early career stage, building confidence in assessing the condition of young patients.
GPs and out-of-hours doctors
Working in primary care and night/weekend out-of-hours services, where paediatric contact is frequent but access to an experienced paediatrician is limited.
Other healthcare professionals
All healthcare workers who encounter paediatric patients in their daily practice.
Why does it matter?
Assessing the health status of infants and young children is one of the most challenging tasks in medicine.
What is "ill appearance"?
Experienced paediatricians can intuitively recognise the "impression of a seriously ill child" on the basis of:
- Child's activity
- Breathing pattern
- Skin colour
- Behaviour and responses
Problem
These signals are subjective and require years of practice.
A significant proportion of children presenting to emergency departments do not require hospitalisation. If young doctors had tools to help objectify assessment:
- Unnecessary hospitalisations could be avoided
- Vigilance towards genuinely threatening conditions would increase
„Thanks to vaccinations children less frequently suffer from serious infectious diseases – which is beneficial for the population, but makes it harder for young doctors to gain practical experience in recognising these conditions.”
– Prof. Leszek Szenborn
Kid AID Coach addresses this problem: it allows exposure to a wide spectrum of clinical cases – both mild and severe, including rare ones – in a much more comprehensive way than textbook descriptions.