PEDIATRICS - UNIVERSITY EXAM ASKED
QUESTIONS LIST
YEAR 2007-2018
New Paper pattern in Pediatrics (2017)
Total time - 2 hours
Total marks - 40 marks
Section 1
6 marks x 2 questions no options
Section 2
3 marks x 3 questions out of 4
Section 3
3 marks x 3 questions out of 4
Section 4
2 marks x 5 questions out of 7
Growth, Development, Adolescent and Fluid Electrolyte
-Growth chart/ Road to health chart
- Growth monitoring and its importance
- Evaluation of development in 9 month old infant
-Development milestones in a 1 year old child
-Tests for developmental assessment in children
-Common problems in adolescents
Nutrition
-Etiology complications investigations management clinical features of SAM
- SAM - clinical features and nutritional management - 10 steps of management in
SAM (Do entire SAM properly)
- Criteria for discharge in patient of SAM
- Complementary feeding in 9 months old infant
- Complementary feeding in 1 year old child
- Hypoglycemia
- Acute Marasmus
Micronutrients
- Clinical features, investigation, management of nutritional rickets
- Scurvy - radiological features
- Vitamin D deficiency in children
- Rickets - clinical features and radiological features
- Vitamin A deficiency
Immunization
- Pentavalent vaccine
- Injectable polio vaccine
- Polio vaccines
- MMR Vaccine
- inactivated polio vaccine
- Hepatitis b vaccine
- Measles vaccine
- Pertussis vaccine
- DPT vaccine
- BCG vaccine
- Oral polio vaccine
- Write temperature for storage of all vaccines included in UIP
-Vaccine Vial Monitor
Newborn infants
-Danger signs in newborn (not in GHAI)
-Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia
-Treatment of neonatal jaundice
-Enlist causes and describe physiological jaundice
-Causes and management of pathological jaundice in newborn (criteria for
pathological jaundice in neonate)
-Laboratory diagnosis and management of sepsis
-Sepsis screen in neonates
-Early diagnosis of neonatal sepsis
-Prevention of sepsis
-Breastfeeding - advantages of breastfeeding (good attachment, correct position,
effective sucking, reflexes in breastfeeding and lactational problems in early
neonatal period)
-AFASS guidelines for feeding practices in HIV positive mother (2018)
-Contraindications of breastfeeding(2018)
-Warm chain
-Kangaroo Mother Care
-Hypothermia in newborn
-Algorithmic approach in neonatal resuscitation
-Chest compression in NRP
- Bag and mask ventilation
-Initial steps of resuscitation
-Drugs in NRP
-APGAR score
-Cephalhematoma
- Jitteriness in newborn
-Anterior fontanel
-Moro’s reflex
-Neonatal hypoglycemia
-Neonatal hypocalcaemia
-LBW newborns complications
- Hyaline membrane disease
- Idiopathic respiratory distress in newborn
Infections
-Dengue fever in children (clinical features, complications, management and
prevention)
-Measles (complications)
- Malaria (drug therapy for uncomplicated P. falciparum, ACT, clinical features,
complications and management)
- Complicated Malaria
-Diphtheria (clinical features, management, etiology and investigations,
prevention)
-Pertussis
-Tuberculin test/ Mantoux test
-Treatment of typhoid
GIT
- Write down management of acute watery diarrhea with severe dehydration in a
1 year old child weighing 9 kg (2018)
- Clinical features and treatment of Some Dehydration in 15 month old child
weighing 10 kg
-Severe dehydration in children
-Fluid management in 18 month old 10 kg child suffering from severe dehydration
not severely malnourished
-Causes, diagnosis, classification and management of dehydration
- Oral rehydration therapy
-Low osmolarity ORS
Hematology
-Children with beta thalassaemia major (management, clinical features,
investigations and complications)
- Sickle Cell disease (clinical features, management, diagnosis, complications,
etiology)
-Nutritional anemia (etiology, clinical features, investigation, management)
-Laboratory investigations of iron deficiency anemia
Cardiovascular system
-Fallots tetralogy (clinical features, investigations, complications and treatment)
-Patent Ductus arteriosus
-Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD) in children (types, clinical features, investigations
and management)
-Acute rheumatic fever in children (clinical features, Diagnostic criteria and
management)
-Cardiac failure
-Infective endocarditis – management
Respiratory system
-Acute severe asthma (management of status asthmaticus)
-Acute severe asthma in children (inhaler therapy, clinical features, diagnosis and
management)
-Pneumonia in 5 year old child (etiology, clinical features, complications
management and diagnosis)
-Swine flu
-Persistent cough in 2 years old child
Endocrine system
-D/D of short stature
-Congenital Hypothyroidism(2018)
Central Nervous System
-TB meningitis in children (clinical features, investigation and management)
-Febrile convulsions
-Pyogenic Meningitis (etiology, clinical features, investigation, management,
complications, diagnosis)
-Causes of convulsions in 1 year old infant
-Infantile tremor syndrome
-Neural tube defects
-Status epilepticus
-Neonatal seizures (Laboratory investigations and Management)
Renal system
-Acute post streptococcal Glomerulonephritis (clinical features, management and
investigation)
-Nephrotic syndrome (steroid sensitive)
-First attack of nephrotic syndrome (treatment, etiology, clinical features,
investigations and management)
- UTI in 1 year old child
-Acute nephritic syndrome (clinical features, etiopathology, investigations,
differential diagnosis and Management)
Genetics
Down’s syndrome
Compiled by,
Pankti Bhatt
Simran Thakkar
Yasir Nadir Merchant
