Czech Paediatrics Board Examination study guide
Czech Paediatrics Board Examination · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Czech Paediatrics Board Examination (Atestační zkouška z pediatrie) is the national specialty certification that a physician practising in the Czech Republic must complete to work as an independent paediatric specialist. It is intended for doctors who have finished the prescribed postgraduate training in paediatrics and hold a completed logbook of certified rotations and procedures. The Czech Paediatrics Board Examination study guide has 12 sections and about 5,135 words.
01Neonatology and Perinatal Medicine
Neonatology questions in the Czech board exam concentrate on delivery-room stabilisation, the physiology of the preterm infant, and the screening programme every newborn passes through before discharge. Expect short vignettes giving a gestational age, a birth weight and one borderline observation, and expect the answer to hinge on what you do first.
493 words, about 2 min02Growth, Development and Preventive Paediatrics
This domain tests whether you can read a growth chart the way a clinician does, place a child on the correct developmental trajectory, and reproduce the Czech preventive-examination and immunisation timetable without prompting. Questions are usually data-interpretation items with a chart description, a parental height, or a list of achieved milestones.
465 words, about 2 min03Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology
Infectious disease items test age-stratified fever algorithms, recognition of the classic exanthems and Kawasaki disease, and safe use of the Czech immunisation schedule. Immunology items are usually red-flag recognition rather than detailed laboratory interpretation.
421 words, about 2 min04Paediatric Cardiology and Pulmonology
This domain tests whether you can separate an innocent murmur from a pathological one, recognise a duct-dependent circulation before collapse, and manage the two commonest respiratory emergencies of childhood, croup and bronchiolitis, without overtreating. Innocent murmurs are soft, systolic, short, vary with position and are not accompanied by clicks, thrills, cyanosis, poor feeding or failure to thrive.
415 words, about 2 min05Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Questions here test the recognition of neonatal cholestasis as a surgical emergency, the investigation of failure to thrive and chronic diarrhoea, and the practical management of dehydration and reflux in infancy. Any infant jaundiced beyond 14 days needs a fractionated bilirubin.
409 words, about 2 min06Paediatric Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders
This domain covers new-onset type 1 diabetes and diabetic ketoacidosis, disorders of growth and puberty, congenital adrenal hyperplasia and the acute presentation of inherited metabolic disease. Examiners favour the first hour of management, where most harm is done.
417 words, about 2 min07Paediatric Nephrology and Urology
Items in this domain test urine sampling and urinary tract infection, the steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome, haematuria and hypertension, and the timing of surgery for undescended testis and hypospadias. Diagnosis requires a properly obtained specimen: clean-catch midstream in older children, catheter or suprapubic aspirate in infants.
364 words, about 2 min08Paediatric Neurology and Developmental Disorders
Neurology questions test febrile seizures and their boundaries, status epilepticus management, meningitis, and the recognition of cerebral palsy and developmental delay. Examiners reward restraint: many wrong answers involve over-investigating a benign event.
418 words, about 2 min09Paediatric Haematology and Oncology
This domain tests blood count interpretation against age-specific norms, the distinction between immune thrombocytopenia and leukaemia, and the first 24 hours of febrile neutropenia and tumour lysis syndrome. Haemoglobin falls physiologically to a nadir around 8-10 weeks, then rises.
404 words, about 2 min10Paediatric Rheumatology and Allergology
Questions here test the recognition of juvenile idiopathic arthritis and vasculitis, and the management of anaphylaxis, which is the single most examined emergency in the domain. Examiners look for the correct drug, route, dose and sequence.
424 words, about 2 min11Paediatric Emergencies, Intensive Care and Anaesthesiology
This domain tests structured resuscitation of the child, weight-based drug and fluid calculations, and recognition of shock and raised intracranial pressure. The recurring theme is that children compensate well and then decompensate abruptly, so early signs must not be dismissed.
422 words, about 2 min12Social Paediatrics, Ethics, Legislation and Health Care Organisation
This domain tests how the Czech health system actually works: consent for minors, confidentiality, mandatory reporting, the statutory vaccination duty, and the paediatrician's gatekeeping role. The clinical content is easy; the marks are lost on unclear legal reasoning.
483 words, about 2 min