ABP Pediatric Hospital Medicine study plan
ABP Pediatric Hospital Medicine · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 6 hours per week
Pediatric Hospital Medicine Content (official subspecialty content outline domains not enumerated in source)
Map the official subspecialty content outline into a personal topic inventory with a confidence rating (1-5) for each item
Rank the inventory to identify the 10 lowest-confidence high-yield topics
Build a spaced-repetition deck skeleton with one card per inventory item
Your checkpoint
A dated topic inventory spreadsheet with confidence ratings and a ranked top-10 weakness list
Pediatric Hospital Medicine Content (official subspecialty content outline domains not enumerated in source)
Draft one-page management algorithms for the top 5 lowest-confidence ward topics from the week 1 ranking
Cross-check each algorithm against a current major guideline or society statement and note the citation
Write 3 original vignette-style questions per algorithm and explain the reasoning for each answer choice
Your checkpoint
Five one-page algorithms plus 15 original vignettes with written rationales
Pediatric Hospital Medicine Content (official subspecialty content outline domains not enumerated in source)
Explain the pathophysiology, initial stabilization, and escalation thresholds for common acute pediatric ward presentations
List drug, dose, and monitoring pitfalls for the 10 most frequently used inpatient medications
Practice interpreting 10 common inpatient labs and vitals trends aloud in under 2 minutes each
Your checkpoint
A one-page acute stabilization and medication pitfall reference card
Pediatric Hospital Medicine Content (official subspecialty content outline domains not enumerated in source) & Unweighted placeholder domain (source does not enumerate subspecialty domains)
Define the scope of the placeholder domain by listing the exam-relevant topics it likely covers and mapping them onto domain 1 items
Re-rate confidence on all week 1 inventory items and flag any that remain at 1-2
Complete a 40-question timed mixed set and log the reasoning error behind every miss
Your checkpoint
A mid-point error log categorizing every missed question by cause (knowledge gap, misread, reasoning error)
Milestones
Week 4: All inventory items have a current confidence rating, the top-10 weakness list has shrunk or been re-ranked, and the error log shows fewer than 30% knowledge-gap misses