PGIM MD Paediatrics study guide
PGIM MD Paediatrics · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The MD Paediatrics is a postgraduate medical qualification offered through the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM), University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. PGIM administers postgraduate training and examinations across its Boards of Study, and its website provides the examination application route, examination circulars, results, past papers, and annual examination calendars that candidates use to organise their candidacy. The programme is intended for medical graduates who have entered structured postgraduate training in paediatrics and are working toward specialist-level competence in the care of infants, children, and adolescents. Because PGIM publishes curricula through its Boards of Study and curriculum development pages, candidates should treat the current Board of Study curriculum as the definitive statement of what the examination covers rather than relying on older syllabi or second-hand summaries. Preparation should be built around that curriculum, the examination circulars that govern each sitting, and supervised clinical experience in paediatric wards, neonatal units, and outpatient settings. Reading should be paired with case-based practice, structured note-keeping on common paediatric presentations, and review of local guidelines. Topics on this exam: Paediatrics. The PGIM MD Paediatrics study guide has 1 section and about 428 words.
01Paediatrics: growth, neonatology and emergency numbers
The Paediatrics domain tests whether you can move from a child's presenting complaint to a safe, age-appropriate plan: resuscitate first, then establish aetiology, then definitive and community-level care. Weighting favours neonatology, growth and development surveillance, emergency triage and rational prescribing, with numeric thresholds used as the discriminators between answer options. Developmental windows in examinations are the age by which a skill should be present: social smile by 8 weeks, sits unsupported by 8–9 months, walks independently by 18 months, uses two meaningful words by 24 months, three-word sentences by 36 months. Red flags: loss of acquired skills, persistent primitive reflexes beyond 6 months, asymmetry of tone or hand use, and head circumference crossing centiles upward or downward.
428 words, about 2 minMore study resources for PGIM MD Paediatrics
- Practice questionsA 3-week-old exclusively breastfed infant is brought for a routine review.
- FlashcardsNeonatal physiological jaundice. Jaundice appearing after 24 hours of life, peaking around day 3-5 in term infants and day 5-7 in preterm infants, caused by immature hepatic conjugation and increased red cell turnover.
- Cheat sheetNeonatal jaundice: phototherapy thresholds rise with postnatal age and gestational age; in term infants consider phototherapy around 15 mg/dL (257 µmol/L) at 48 h, and exchange transfusion roughly 5 mg/dL above the phototherapy line.
- Key termsApgar score. A rapid 0–10 assessment done at 1 and 5 minutes after birth, scoring heart rate, respiratory effort, muscle tone, reflex irritability and colour; it guides resuscitation needs rather than predicting long-term outcome.
- Study planMap the full paediatrics syllabus into a one-page checklist covering growth and development, nutrition, neonatology, immunisation, infectious disease, respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, renal, neurology, endocrinology, haematology-oncology, genetics, behavioural and emergency topics.
- Common mistakesTime pressure and pattern-recognition bias lead candidates to anchor on the salient symptom and skip the second half of the stem, where the distractor is usually excluded.
- Exam-day guideBring the original, unexpired ID in the name you registered with.