Arab Board Pediatrics Clinical Exam case studies
Arab Board Pediatrics Clinical Exam · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Arab Board Clinical Examination in Pediatrics is the clinical stage of the Arab Board of Health Specializations' pediatrics certification, taken by physicians who have completed accredited pediatric residency training and passed the written component. It assesses whether a candidate can practise independently: taking a focused history, examining a child, forming a differential, ordering investigations sensibly, and communicating with families and colleagues. The Arab Board Pediatrics Clinical Exam case studies are 5 cases and about 3,644 words.
1A 3-week-old with poor feeding and a murmur
A 3-week-old term male, born at home to a 32-year-old primigravida, is brought to the emergency department at 2 a.m. by his grandmother because he has fed poorly for 24 hours and is 'breathing fast.' Birth weight was 3.1 kg; he now weighs 2.7 kg.
714 words, about 4 min2A 9-year-old with a first seizure in the emergency department
A 9-year-old girl is brought by ambulance after a 4-minute generalised tonic-clonic seizure at school. She was drowsy but rousable on arrival and has had no further seizure.
758 words, about 4 min3A 14-month-old with faltering growth and diarrhoea
A 14-month-old boy is referred to the general paediatric clinic with diarrhoea and poor weight gain. He was born at term, birth weight 3.4 kg.
558 words, about 3 min4A 6-year-old with fever and a petechial rash in a resource-limited setting
A 6-year-old boy is brought to a district hospital in a setting where meningococcal disease is seasonal. He has had fever for 12 hours, vomiting twice, leg pain and refusal to walk.
783 words, about 4 min5A 4-year-old with recurrent wheeze whose parents want an 'asthma label'
A 4-year-old girl is brought to clinic with her third episode of wheeze in 12 months. Each episode followed a cold, lasted about a week, and responded to salbutamol given by spacer in the emergency department.
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