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Paediatrics Fellowship

Paeds vivas

Structured oral examination scripts across the paediatric life course.

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27Chapters

Chapters · 27

  • genetics-dysmorphology-and-metabolism34
  • growth-development-and-behaviour34
  • acute-care-resuscitation-and-toxicology31
  • investigations-procedures-and-technology34
  • gastroenterology-hepatology-and-nutrition40
  • preventive-and-community-paediatrics37
  • neurology-neurodisability-and-neuromuscular40
  • child-safety-and-social-paediatrics32
  • nephrology-urology-fluids-and-electrolytes34
  • paediatric-dermatology21
  • endocrinology-diabetes-and-growth32
  • ent-hearing-and-oral-health21
  • mental-behavioural-and-psychosomatic26
  • rheumatology-musculoskeletal-and-sports31
  • pain-palliative-and-end-of-life-care13
  • cardiology35
  • respiratory-sleep-and-airway35
  • adolescent-and-young-adult-medicine28
  • clinical-pharmacology-and-therapeutics22
  • rural-remote-and-contextual-paediatrics14
  • clinical-assessment-and-reasoning26
  • allergy-and-immunology25
  • haematology-oncology-and-transfusion33
  • infectious-diseases39
  • fetal-neonatal-and-perinatal58
  • professional-practice-and-evidence35
  • ophthalmology17
01

genetics-dysmorphology-and-metabolism

34 entries
  • 22q11.2 deletion syndrome — branching viva
  • Acute metabolic decompensation: recognition and stabilisation
  • Amino-acid disorders including phenylketonuria and MSUD — branching viva
  • Chromosomal microarray, exome and genome sequencing — branching viva
  • Dietary, cofactor and emergency management of metabolic disease
  • Disorders of metal metabolism: Wilson and Menkes disease — branching viva
  • Down syndrome — branching viva
  • Dysmorphology examination — branching viva
  • Ethical issues in genomic diagnosis and cascade testing
  • Fatty-acid oxidation disorders — branching viva
  • Fragile X syndrome — branching viva
  • Genetic deafness and blindness syndromes — branching viva
  • Genetic history, pedigree construction and inheritance patterns — branching viva
  • Genomic testing, variant interpretation, and counselling — branching viva
  • Glycogen-storage and carbohydrate metabolism disorders — branching viva
  • Hypoglycaemia due to inherited metabolic disease — branching viva
  • Inborn errors presenting with neurological regression — branching viva
  • Klinefelter syndrome and sex chromosome aneuploidy — branching viva
  • Lysosomal storage disorders — branching viva
  • Marfan syndrome and heritable connective-tissue disorders — branching viva
  • Mitochondrial disease
  • Mucopolysaccharidoses and oligosaccharidoses — branching viva
  • Neurofibromatosis type 1 and type 2 — branching viva
  • Noonan syndrome and RASopathies — branching viva
  • Organic acidaemias — branching viva
  • Peroxisomal disorders — branching viva
  • Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes — branching viva
  • Prenatal diagnosis and reproductive genetics — branching viva
  • Skeletal dysplasias — branching viva
  • Syndromic craniosynostosis and craniofacial disorders — branching viva
  • Tuberous sclerosis complex — branching viva
  • Turner syndrome — branching viva
  • Urea cycle disorders and hyperammonaemia — branching viva
  • Williams syndrome — branching viva
02

growth-development-and-behaviour

34 entries
  • AAC and assistive technology — branching viva
  • Adolescent transition for neurodevelopmental disability — branching viva
  • Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder — viva
  • Autism spectrum disorder — viva
  • Behavioural assessment and functional analysis — branching viva
  • Behavioural management of defiance and oppositional behaviours — branching viva
  • Cerebral palsy early recognition — branching viva
  • Cerebral palsy surveillance — branching viva
  • Children with developmental disability in acute care — branching viva
  • Children with disability in school and community settings — branching viva
  • Developmental assessment — branching viva
  • Developmental coordination disorder — branching viva
  • Developmental delay: global diagnostic approach — viva
  • Developmental regression — branching viva
  • Early intervention and developmental care planning — branching viva
  • Family-centred developmental care and goal setting — branching viva
  • Feeding problems, food refusal and selective eating — branching viva
  • General movements and HINE — branching viva
  • Hearing impairment and development — branching viva
  • Intellectual developmental disorder — branching viva
  • Motor delay, hypotonia and the floppy infant — branching viva
  • Neurodiversity-affirming developmental care — branching viva
  • Normal cognitive, emotional and behavioural development — branching viva
  • Normal growth from fetal life through adolescence — viva
  • Normal language and social communication — branching viva
  • Normal motor development and developmental variation — branching viva
  • School refusal and school attendance problems — branching viva
  • Sensory processing differences — branching viva
  • Social communication concerns — branching viva
  • Specific learning disorders — branching viva
  • Speech and language delay — branching viva
  • Temper tantrums, aggression and emotional dysregulation — branching viva
  • Toilet training and elimination behaviour — branching viva
  • Visual impairment and development — viva
03

acute-care-resuscitation-and-toxicology

31 entries
  • ABCDE assessment and stabilisation of the acutely ill child — branching viva
  • Airway assessment and basic airway management: Viva
  • Altered conscious state in children — branching viva
  • Burns assessment, resuscitation and safeguarding — branching viva
  • Button-battery and magnet ingestion — branching viva
  • By the product, not the symptom — household chemical exposure viva
  • Cardiogenic and obstructive shock: Viva
  • Cardiorespiratory arrest and post-arrest care — branching viva
  • Cardiotoxic and psychotropic medication poisoning — branching viva
  • Care after death, unexpected child death and family support — branching viva
  • Difficult paediatric airway and emergency front-of-neck access — branching viva
  • Envenomation and marine bites — branching viva
  • Fluid bolus therapy and vasoactive support — branching viva
  • Heat illness, hypothermia and environmental emergencies — branching viva
  • Humane restraint and behavioural support in emergency care — branching viva
  • Hypovolaemic and haemorrhagic shock — branching viva
  • Initial stabilisation of major paediatric head injury — branching viva
  • Iron, salicylate and toxic alcohol poisoning — branching viva
  • Major trauma and paediatric trauma systems — branching viva
  • Mechanical ventilation principles in children — branching viva
  • Oesophageal and gastrointestinal foreign-body ingestion — branching viva
  • Opioid, sedative and recreational-drug toxicity — branching viva
  • Oxygen, high-flow and non-invasive respiratory support — viva
  • Paediatric basic and advanced life support — branching viva
  • Paracetamol poisoning — branching viva
  • Poisoned child: structured assessment and decontamination — branching viva
  • Rapid sequence intubation in children — viva
  • Retrieval, transport and interfacility stabilisation — branching viva
  • Septic shock resuscitation and vasoactive support — branching viva
  • Shock in children: physiology and classification — branching viva
  • Submersion injury and hypothermia — branching viva
04

investigations-procedures-and-technology

34 entries
  • Abdominal radiograph and acute imaging decisions — branching viva
  • Abscess drainage and minor procedures — branching viva
  • Airway suction, oxygen devices and nebuliser technique: Viva
  • Artificial intelligence and clinical decision support in paediatrics — viva
  • Audiology and hearing-test interpretation — branching viva
  • Bag-mask ventilation and basic airway adjuncts: Viva
  • Blood gas, electrolyte and acid-base interpretation — branching viva
  • Bone-marrow aspiration and biopsy principles — branching viva
  • Central venous and arterial access in children — viva
  • Chest decompression and intercostal drain insertion — branching viva
  • Chest radiograph interpretation in children — branching viva
  • Defibrillation, cardioversion and transcutaneous pacing — branching viva
  • Developmental, cognitive and behavioural assessment tools — branching viva
  • Echocardiography fundamentals for general paediatricians — branching viva
  • Electrocardiogram acquisition and interpretation in children — branching viva
  • Endotracheal intubation and emergency airway equipment — branching viva
  • Gastrostomy, tracheostomy and central-line troubleshooting — viva
  • Genetic and metabolic test selection — branching viva
  • Intraosseous access — branching viva
  • Joint aspiration — branching viva
  • Lumbar puncture in infants and children — branching viva
  • Medical devices, digital health and remote monitoring — viva
  • Nasogastric tube insertion and verification — branching viva
  • Neuroimaging selection and radiation-aware practice — branching viva
  • Paediatric ultrasound and point of care ultrasound — branching viva
  • Paediatric venepuncture and peripheral intravenous access — viva
  • Point-of-care glucose, ketone and urinalysis testing — branching viva
  • Procedural consent, preparation and child-life support — branching viva
  • Procedural pain: topical anaesthesia, preparation, distraction and non-pharmacological support — branching viva
  • Radiation protection and imaging stewardship — branching viva
  • Safe paediatric procedural sedation — branching viva
  • Simple laceration repair and wound management — branching viva
  • Suprapubic aspiration and urinary catheterisation: Viva
  • Umbilical venous and arterial catheterisation — branching viva
05

gastroenterology-hepatology-and-nutrition

40 entries
  • Abdominal wall and umbilical disorders — branching viva
  • Acute abdominal pain in children: Viva
  • Acute gastroenteritis and infectious diarrhoea — branching viva
  • Acute liver failure: Viva
  • Acute vomiting in infants and children: Viva
  • Appendicitis and surgical abdomen — branching viva
  • Ascites and peritoneal disease: Viva
  • Bilious vomiting and intestinal obstruction — branching viva
  • Breastfeeding medicine and lactation support — branching viva
  • Chronic and recurrent abdominal pain: Viva
  • Chronic liver disease, cirrhosis and portal hypertension: Viva
  • Coeliac disease — branching viva
  • Constipation and faecal incontinence: Viva
  • Dysphagia and oesophageal disorders — branching viva
  • Enteral feeding tubes and home enteral nutrition — branching viva
  • Feeding assessment and paediatric dysphagia — branching viva
  • Food protein-induced enterocolitis and enteropathy — branching viva
  • Formula feeding and complementary feeding — branching viva
  • Functional abdominal pain and irritable bowel syndrome: Viva
  • Gastro-oesophageal reflux and reflux disease — structured oral (viva)
  • Gastrointestinal bleeding — branching viva
  • Hirschsprung disease — branching viva
  • Inflammatory bowel disease: Viva
  • Intussusception — branching viva
  • Liver transplantation in children: Viva
  • Malnutrition: nutritional rehabilitation and monitoring — branching viva
  • Malrotation and volvulus — branching viva
  • Micronutrient deficiencies — branching viva
  • Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in children — branching viva
  • Normal nutritional requirements across childhood: Viva
  • Nutritional management of chronic disease — branching viva
  • Oesophagitis, caustic ingestion and oesophageal injury — branching viva
  • Paediatric feeding disorder: nutritional and gastrointestinal management — branching viva
  • Pancreatitis and pancreatic disorders — branching viva
  • Parenteral nutrition and refeeding syndrome — branching viva
  • Peptic disease and Helicobacter pylori — viva
  • Persistent and chronic diarrhoea — branching viva
  • Polyps and inherited gastrointestinal cancer syndromes: Viva
  • Short-bowel syndrome and intestinal failure — branching viva
  • Viral, autoimmune and metabolic hepatitis — branching viva
06

preventive-and-community-paediatrics

37 entries
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child health — branching viva
  • Adolescent preventive health care — branching viva
  • Air pollution, tobacco smoke and vaping — branching viva
  • Cardiovascular risk screening in childhood — branching viva
  • Catch-up immunisation — branching viva
  • Childcare exclusion and infection prevention — branching viva
  • Childhood injury prevention — branching viva
  • Climate change, heat and child health — branching viva
  • Community needs assessment and child-health advocacy — branching viva
  • Developmental and behavioural screening — branching viva
  • Drowning prevention and water safety — branching viva
  • Environmental health and children's exposure risks — branching viva
  • Global child health and sustainable paediatric care — branching viva
  • Housing insecurity, food insecurity and child health — branching viva
  • Immunisation principles and national schedule comparison — branching viva
  • Indigenous child health and culturally safe care — branching viva
  • Infant health supervision 3–6 months — branching viva
  • Infant health supervision 6–12 months — branching viva
  • Infant health supervision birth to 3 months — branching viva
  • Lead exposure and poisoning prevention — branching viva
  • Māori child health, Te Tiriti and culturally safe care — branching viva
  • Newborn bloodspot screening for inherited metabolic disease and follow-up — branching viva
  • Newborn hearing screening — branching viva
  • Newborn preventive care and screening — branching viva
  • Passenger, bicycle, pedestrian and firearm safety — branching viva
  • Population health, epidemiology and prevention in paediatrics — branching viva
  • Preschool health supervision — branching viva
  • Preventive paediatrics and the well-child visit — branching viva
  • Rural, regional and remote child-health inequities — branching viva
  • Safe sleep and SUDI prevention — branching viva
  • School health and school-based care — branching viva
  • School-age health supervision — viva
  • Screening test principles in children — branching viva
  • Sun protection and skin cancer prevention — branching viva
  • Toddler health supervision: 1 to 3 years — branching viva
  • Vaccine contraindications, precautions and adverse events — branching viva
  • Vaccine hesitancy and risk communication — branching viva
07

neurology-neurodisability-and-neuromuscular

40 entries
  • Absence, focal and generalised epilepsies — branching viva
  • Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis and demyelinating disease — branching viva
  • Acute neuromuscular respiratory failure: Viva
  • Antiseizure medicines: selection, adverse effects and monitoring — branching viva
  • Ataxia in children: Viva
  • Autoimmune encephalitis: Viva
  • Brain death, death by neurological criteria and organ donation: Viva
  • Cerebral vascular malformations: Viva
  • Concussion and mild traumatic brain injury — branching viva
  • Congenital myopathies and muscular dystrophies: Viva
  • Developmental regression and neurodegeneration — branching viva
  • Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy: Viva
  • Epilepsy syndromes by age — branching viva
  • Febrile seizures: Viva
  • First seizure and seizure mimics — branching viva
  • Guillain-Barré syndrome and acute flaccid paralysis: Viva
  • Headache and migraine in children: Viva
  • Hydrocephalus and shunt emergencies: Viva
  • Hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury: Viva
  • Infantile spasms and developmental epileptic encephalopathy — branching viva
  • Moderate and severe traumatic brain injury: Viva
  • Movement disorders, dystonia and chorea: Viva
  • Myasthenia gravis and neuromuscular junction disorders: Viva
  • Neural tube defects and spinal dysraphism: Viva
  • Neurodegenerative and leukodystrophy disorders — branching viva
  • Neurogenetic conditions and precision diagnosis: Viva
  • Neurological examination across childhood — branching viva
  • Neurorehabilitation and acquired brain injury: Viva
  • Non-epileptic events and functional seizures — branching viva
  • Paediatric stroke and cerebral sinovenous thrombosis: Viva
  • Pain, feeding and respiratory care in severe neurodisability: Viva
  • Peripheral neuropathies: Viva
  • Secondary headache and raised intracranial pressure — branching viva
  • Sleep disorders with neurological disease: Viva
  • Spasticity, dystonia and tone management: Viva
  • Spinal cord compression and transverse myelitis — branching viva
  • Spinal muscular atrophy: Viva
  • Status epilepticus: Viva
  • Tics and Tourette syndrome: Viva
  • Transition and advance care planning in neurodisability: Viva
08

child-safety-and-social-paediatrics

32 entries
  • Abusive head trauma — branching viva
  • Caregiver-fabricated or induced illness — branching viva
  • Child maltreatment recognition and response — branching viva
  • Child sexual abuse and assault assessment — branching viva
  • Children in out-of-home care and foster care — branching viva
  • Expert reports and court evidence in child protection — viva
  • Female genital mutilation or cutting — branching viva
  • Homelessness and housing instability — viva
  • Inflicted abdominal and thoracic injury — branching viva
  • Inflicted burns and scalds — branching viva
  • Inflicted fractures and other non-accidental musculoskeletal injury — branching viva
  • Intimate partner violence and its impact on children — branching viva
  • Intra-oral injury and occult trauma — branching viva
  • Kinship care, adoption and permanency health assessments — viva
  • Mandatory reporting and jurisdictional child-protection frameworks — viva
  • Medical neglect and refusal of care — branching viva
  • Multidisciplinary child-protection case conference — viva
  • Neglect and supervisory neglect — branching viva
  • Online sexual exploitation and image-based abuse — branching viva
  • Perplexing presentations and diagnostic uncertainty — branching viva
  • Photodocumentation and medicolegal evidence — branching viva
  • Physical abuse: bruising and sentinel injuries — branching viva
  • Poisoning as maltreatment — branching viva
  • Poverty, food insecurity and social prescribing — branching viva
  • Prevention of child maltreatment and family support — branching viva
  • Psychological and emotional abuse — branching viva
  • Refugee, asylum-seeking and newly arrived children — branching viva
  • Sexually transmitted infections and child sexual abuse — branching viva
  • Strangulation, suffocation and asphyxial injury — branching viva
  • Trafficking, exploitation and forced marriage — viva
  • Trauma-informed examination and forensic documentation — branching viva
  • Youth justice and detained young people — viva
09

nephrology-urology-fluids-and-electrolytes

34 entries
  • Acid-base disorders in children — viva
  • Acute kidney injury: Viva
  • Acute nephritic syndrome and glomerulonephritis — branching viva
  • Antenatal hydronephrosis and postnatal evaluation: Viva
  • Calcium, magnesium and phosphate disorders — viva
  • Chronic kidney disease and progression: Viva
  • Congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract: Viva
  • Dehydration and oral or intravenous rehydration: Viva
  • Fluid maintenance and deficit replacement — viva
  • Haematuria: diagnostic approach — branching viva
  • Haemolytic uraemic syndrome: Viva
  • Hypokalaemia and hyperkalaemia — viva
  • Hyponatraemia and hypernatraemia — viva
  • Hypospadias, cryptorchidism and common male genital disorders: Viva
  • IgA nephropathy and IgA vasculitis nephritis: Viva
  • Inherited tubulopathies: Viva
  • Kidney replacement therapy and dialysis in children: Viva
  • Kidney transplantation in children: Viva
  • Lupus nephritis and systemic disease: Viva
  • Nephrolithiasis and nephrocalcinosis — viva
  • Neurogenic bladder and dysfunctional voiding: Viva
  • Nocturnal enuresis — branching viva
  • Oedema and nephrotic syndrome — branching viva
  • Oliguria, anuria and urinary obstruction: Viva
  • Polycystic kidney disease and inherited nephropathies: Viva
  • Polyuria and polydipsia — viva
  • Post-infectious glomerulonephritis: Viva
  • Posterior urethral valves: Viva
  • Proteinuria: diagnostic approach — viva
  • Renal tubular acidosis — viva
  • Scrotal pain and testicular torsion: Viva
  • Urinalysis, renal function and paediatric kidney assessment — branching viva
  • Vesicoureteric reflux: Viva
  • Vulvovaginal and common prepubertal gynaecological disorders: Viva
10

paediatric-dermatology

21 entries
  • Acne vulgaris in adolescents — branching viva
  • Alopecia and hair disorders in children — branching viva
  • Approach to rash in infants and children — viva
  • Congenital melanocytic naevi and pigmentary birthmarks — branching viva
  • Contact dermatitis — branching viva
  • Drug eruptions including DRESS and AGEP — branching viva
  • Epidermolysis bullosa and inherited blistering disorders — viva
  • Genodermatoses and neurocutaneous skin findings — branching viva
  • Impetigo and bacterial skin infection — branching viva
  • Molluscum contagiosum and viral warts — viva
  • Nail disorders in children — branching viva
  • Nappy dermatitis — branching viva
  • Neonatal pustular and vesiculobullous eruptions — branching viva
  • Petechiae, purpura and vasculitic rashes — branching viva
  • Psoriasis in children — branching viva
  • Scabies, lice and infestations — viva
  • Seborrhoeic dermatitis and cradle cap — branching viva
  • Skin manifestations of systemic disease — branching viva
  • Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis — branching viva
  • Tinea and fungal skin infection — branching viva
  • Vascular birthmarks and infantile haemangioma — branching viva
11

endocrinology-diabetes-and-growth

32 entries
  • Acquired hypothyroidism and Hashimoto thyroiditis — viva
  • Adrenal insufficiency and adrenal crisis — branching viva
  • Congenital adrenal hyperplasia — branching viva
  • Congenital hypothyroidism — branching viva
  • Constitutional delay and familial short stature — branching viva
  • Cushing syndrome in children — branching viva
  • Delayed puberty and hypogonadism in adolescents — branching viva
  • Diabetes insipidus and polyuria-polydipsia — viva
  • Diabetic ketoacidosis — branching viva
  • Disorders of sex development — branching viva
  • Endocrine emergencies: integrated approach — branching viva
  • Endocrine late effects of cancer treatment — branching viva
  • Growth hormone deficiency and excess — branching viva
  • Hypercalcaemia and hyperparathyroidism — branching viva
  • Hyperthyroidism and Graves disease — branching viva
  • Hypocalcaemia and hypoparathyroidism — viva
  • Hypoglycaemia in diabetes — branching viva
  • Hypopituitarism and pituitary lesions — branching viva
  • Lipid disorders and familial hypercholesterolaemia — branching viva
  • Monogenic diabetes and neonatal diabetes — branching viva
  • Obesity: assessment, complications and treatment — branching viva
  • Osteoporosis and fragility fractures in children — branching viva
  • Phaeochromocytoma and endocrine hypertension — branching viva
  • Precocious puberty — branching viva
  • Rickets and metabolic bone disease — branching viva
  • Short stature and poor linear growth — viva
  • SIADH and disorders of water balance — viva
  • Tall stature and overgrowth syndromes — branching viva
  • Thyroid nodules, goitre and thyroid cancer — viva
  • Type 1 diabetes: diagnosis and initial management — branching viva
  • Type 1 diabetes: insulin therapy, technology and ambulatory care — branching viva
  • Type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome in youth — branching viva
12

ent-hearing-and-oral-health

21 entries
  • Acute and chronic rhinosinusitis — branching viva
  • Acute otitis media — branching viva
  • Ankyloglossia and infant feeding — branching viva
  • Cleft lip and palate — branching viva
  • Congenital ear anomalies and microtia — branching viva
  • Dental caries and oral-health prevention — branching viva
  • Dental trauma and avulsed teeth — branching viva
  • Drooling, dysphagia and upper-aerodigestive disorders — branching viva
  • Epistaxis in children — branching viva
  • Facial swelling and odontogenic infection — branching viva
  • Hearing assessment and childhood hearing loss — branching viva
  • Mastoiditis and otogenic complications — branching viva
  • Nasal foreign body and button-battery injury — branching viva
  • Neck masses in children — branching viva
  • Oral manifestations of systemic disease — branching viva
  • Oral ulcers and mucosal disease — branching viva
  • Otitis externa — branching viva
  • Otitis media with effusion and grommet decisions — branching viva
  • Pharyngitis, tonsillitis, peritonsillar abscess and deep neck infection — branching viva
  • Salivary gland disorders — branching viva
  • Tinnitus, vertigo and balance disorders in children: Viva
13

mental-behavioural-and-psychosomatic

26 entries
  • Acute behavioural disturbance and agitation — branching viva
  • Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents — branching viva
  • Attachment disorders and relational trauma — branching viva
  • Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder — branching viva
  • Child and adolescent suicide and self-harm assessment — branching viva
  • Children of parents with mental illness or substance use — branching viva
  • Chronic fatigue and post-viral fatigue syndromes — branching viva
  • Collaborative care with child and adolescent mental-health services — branching viva
  • Conduct disorder and antisocial behaviour — branching viva
  • Delirium in children and adolescents — branching viva
  • Depressive disorders in children and adolescents — branching viva
  • Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder — branching viva
  • Early-onset psychosis and mania — branching viva
  • Emergency mental-health assessment and disposition — branching viva
  • Family assessment and family interventions — branching viva
  • Functional neurological symptoms in children — branching viva
  • Grief, bereavement and adjustment disorder in children — branching viva
  • Mental state examination in children and adolescents — branching viva
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder in children — viva
  • Pica and rumination disorder — branching viva
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder and trauma responses — branching viva
  • Psychological impact of chronic illness and disability — branching viva
  • Psychopharmacology and psychotropic medicines in children and adolescents — branching viva
  • Selective mutism — viva
  • Somatic symptom and related disorders — branching viva
  • Substance intoxication, withdrawal and use disorders in youth — branching viva
14

rheumatology-musculoskeletal-and-sports

31 entries
  • Acute monoarthritis and septic arthritis — branching viva
  • ANCA-associated and other childhood vasculitides — branching viva
  • Angular, rotational and gait variants — branching viva
  • Back pain in children and adolescents — branching viva
  • Bone pain and malignancy red flags — branching viva
  • Clubfoot and congenital limb anomalies: Viva
  • Common paediatric fractures and growth-plate injury — branching viva
  • Concussion and return to learn or play — branching viva
  • Developmental dysplasia of the hip — branching viva
  • Heat illness, exertional collapse and sudden death prevention — branching viva
  • IgA vasculitis — branching viva
  • Juvenile dermatomyositis — branching viva
  • Juvenile idiopathic arthritis: Viva
  • Musculoskeletal examination and the limping child — branching viva
  • Nursemaid's elbow and common upper-limb injury — branching viva
  • Osteomyelitis and discitis — branching viva
  • Pain amplification, juvenile fibromyalgia and complex regional pain syndrome: Viva
  • Performance-enhancing substances in young athletes — branching viva
  • Periodic fever and autoinflammatory syndromes — viva
  • Perthes disease — branching viva
  • Pre-participation sports evaluation — branching viva
  • Primary immunodeficiency with rheumatic manifestations — branching viva
  • Reactive arthritis and post-infectious inflammatory syndromes: Viva
  • Relative energy deficiency in sport and athlete nutrition — branching viva
  • Scleroderma, mixed connective-tissue disease and overlap syndromes: Viva
  • Scoliosis and spinal deformity — branching viva
  • Slipped capital femoral epiphysis — branching viva
  • Sports injury prevention and overuse injuries — branching viva
  • Systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis and macrophage activation syndrome: Viva
  • Systemic lupus erythematosus: Viva
  • Transient synovitis and the irritable hip — branching viva
15

pain-palliative-and-end-of-life-care

13 entries
  • Acute nociceptive pain management — branching viva
  • Care in the last days of life — branching viva
  • Chronic primary and secondary pain in children: Viva
  • Grief, bereavement and sibling support — branching viva
  • Neuropathic pain in children: Viva
  • Opioid stewardship and complex analgesia — branching viva
  • Organ and tissue donation in children — branching viva
  • Paediatric palliative care principles and referral — branching viva
  • Pain assessment across developmental and cognitive abilities — branching viva
  • Palliative care in cancer — branching viva
  • Palliative care in neurodisability and genetic disease — branching viva
  • Symptom control in serious paediatric illness — branching viva
  • Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment — branching viva
16

cardiology

35 entries
  • Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease — branching viva
  • Adult congenital heart disease transition — branching viva
  • Aortic and pulmonary stenosis — branching viva
  • Atrial septal defect and partial anomalous pulmonary venous return — branching viva
  • Atrioventricular septal defect — structured oral (viva)
  • Bradyarrhythmias, heart block and pacing — branching viva
  • Cardiac transplantation and ventricular assist devices — branching viva
  • Cardiogenic shock and mechanical circulatory support — branching viva
  • Cardiomyopathies in children — branching viva
  • Cardiovascular examination and murmur assessment — branching viva
  • Coarctation and interrupted aortic arch — branching viva
  • Congenital coronary anomalies and ALCAPA — branching viva
  • Cyanotic newborn and critical congenital heart disease screening — branching viva
  • Duct-dependent congenital heart disease: Viva
  • Ebstein anomaly and tricuspid valve disease — branching viva
  • Exercise evaluation and sports participation in heart disease — branching viva
  • Heart failure in infants and children — branching viva
  • Hypertension in children — branching viva
  • Hypoplastic left heart syndrome — branching viva
  • Infective endocarditis — branching viva
  • Innocent murmurs and normal paediatric cardiovascular variants — viva
  • Kawasaki disease and coronary complications — branching viva
  • Long-QT syndrome and channelopathies — branching viva
  • Myocarditis and pericarditis — branching viva
  • Patent ductus arteriosus — viva
  • Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome — branching viva
  • Pulmonary hypertension in children — branching viva
  • Supraventricular tachycardia — branching viva
  • Syncope and orthostatic intolerance — branching viva
  • Tetralogy of Fallot — branching viva
  • Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection — branching viva
  • Transposition of the great arteries — branching viva
  • Truncus arteriosus and single-ventricle physiology — branching viva
  • Ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death — branching viva
  • Ventricular septal defect — branching viva
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respiratory-sleep-and-airway

35 entries
  • Acute severe and life-threatening asthma — branching viva
  • Aspiration, swallowing dysfunction and chronic lung injury — branching viva
  • Asthma diagnosis and long-term control — branching viva
  • Behavioural insomnia and circadian rhythm disorders — branching viva
  • Bronchiectasis in children — structured oral (viva)
  • Bronchiolitis and viral lower respiratory tract infection — branching viva
  • Central sleep apnoea and hypoventilation syndromes — branching viva
  • Chronic cough in children — structured oral (viva)
  • Community-acquired pneumonia — branching viva
  • Congenital lung and airway malformations — structured oral (viva)
  • Croup — branching viva
  • Cystic fibrosis: diagnosis and screening — branching viva
  • Cystic fibrosis: pulmonary and multidisciplinary management — branching viva
  • Epiglottitis and bacterial tracheitis: Viva
  • Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction — branching viva
  • Foreign-body aspiration — branching viva
  • Interstitial lung disease in children — structured oral (viva)
  • Laryngomalacia, tracheomalacia and vocal-cord dysfunction: Viva
  • Narcolepsy and hypersomnolence — branching viva
  • Neuromuscular respiratory failure and airway clearance — branching viva
  • Non-invasive ventilation and home respiratory support — branching viva
  • Obstructive sleep apnoea in children — branching viva
  • Oxygen therapy and home oxygen in children — branching viva
  • Paediatric sleep investigations: polysomnography, sleep-study interpretation and MSLT — branching viva
  • Pleural effusion and empyema — branching viva
  • Pneumothorax and air-leak syndromes — viva
  • Primary ciliary dyskinesia — branching viva
  • Pulmonary haemorrhage and haemoptysis — structured oral (viva)
  • Recurrent pneumonia in children — structured oral (viva)
  • Recurrent wheeze in preschool children — branching viva
  • Respiratory distress and failure in children — viva
  • Respiratory manifestations of systemic disease — structured oral (viva)
  • Spirometry and paediatric pulmonary-function testing — branching viva
  • Tracheostomy care and emergencies: Viva
  • Upper-airway obstruction and stridor — branching viva
18

adolescent-and-young-adult-medicine

28 entries
  • Adolescent chronic pain and functional symptoms — branching viva
  • Adolescent consent for research and sensitive services — branching viva
  • Adolescent consultation, HEEADSSS and confidentiality — branching viva
  • Adolescent health care for young people in out-of-home care — branching viva
  • Adolescent health in rural and remote settings — branching viva
  • Adolescent pregnancy and parenting — branching viva
  • Adolescent risk assessment and harm minimisation — branching viva
  • Adolescent sexual health and contraception — branching viva
  • Adolescent substance-use screening, brief intervention and harm reduction — branching viva
  • Chronic disease self-management in young people — branching viva
  • Consent and confidential care for adolescents — branching viva
  • Digital media, gaming and cyberbullying — branching viva
  • Dysmenorrhoea and heavy menstrual bleeding — branching viva
  • Eating disorders: recognition and medical instability — branching viva
  • Eating disorders: refeeding and multidisciplinary care — branching viva
  • Gender diversity and gender-affirming paediatric care — branching viva
  • Medication adherence and treatment fatigue — branching viva
  • Menstrual disorders in adolescents — branching viva
  • Normal puberty and adolescent development — branching viva
  • Obesity and body-image concerns in adolescents — branching viva
  • Polycystic ovary syndrome in adolescents — branching viva
  • School refusal, bullying and social exclusion — branching viva
  • Sexual orientation, identity and inclusive care — branching viva
  • Sexually transmitted infection screening and management — branching viva
  • Sleep, fatigue and circadian disorders in adolescents — branching viva
  • Tobacco, vaping and nicotine dependence — branching viva
  • Transition readiness and transfer from paediatric to adult care — branching viva
  • Youth violence, risky behaviour and injury prevention — branching viva
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clinical-pharmacology-and-therapeutics

22 entries
  • Adverse drug reactions and pharmacovigilance — branching viva
  • Analgesics and antipyretics — branching viva
  • Cardiovascular medicines in children — branching viva
  • Chemotherapy and supportive pharmacology — formative viva
  • Complementary, alternative and traditional medicines — branching viva
  • Corticosteroid therapy and adverse effects — branching viva
  • Developmental pharmacology and age-related pharmacokinetics — branching viva
  • Drug interactions and medication reconciliation — branching viva
  • Endocrine and diabetes medicines — branching viva
  • Immunosuppressive and biologic therapies — branching viva
  • Inhaled therapies and device selection — branching viva
  • Medication adherence and formulation challenges — branching viva
  • Off-label and unlicensed medicine use — branching viva
  • Opioids and acute pain medicines — branching viva
  • Pharmacogenomics and precision therapeutics — branching viva
  • Poisoning antidotes and toxicology pharmacology — branching viva
  • Procedural sedation medicines — branching viva
  • Renal and hepatic dose adjustment in children — branching viva
  • Safe prescribing, administration and monitoring — branching viva
  • Therapeutic drug monitoring — branching viva
  • Vaccines and immunobiology — branching viva
  • Weight-based dosing, body-surface area and dose calculation — branching viva
20

rural-remote-and-contextual-paediatrics

14 entries
  • Advocacy, policy and health-service design for rural children — branching viva
  • Avoiding racism and institutional bias in child health — branching viva
  • Child protection in small and remote communities — branching viva
  • Disaster, outbreak and public-health response for children — branching viva
  • Environmental, occupational and agricultural child health — branching viva
  • Implementing culturally safe Indigenous care in rural and remote services — branching viva
  • Refugee, immigrant and humanitarian paediatrics — branching viva
  • Remote prescribing and medication access — branching viva
  • Retrieval coordination and transfer risk — branching viva
  • Rural developmental, disability and mental-health care — branching viva
  • Rural general paediatric practice and scope — branching viva
  • Rural newborn and acute paediatric care — branching viva
  • Stabilisation with limited paediatric resources — branching viva
  • Telepaediatrics and remote specialist support — branching viva
21

clinical-assessment-and-reasoning

26 entries
  • Age-specific normal vital signs and physiological ranges — viva
  • Care of children with medical complexity and technology dependence — branching viva
  • Clinical reasoning, problem representation and differential diagnosis — branching viva
  • Continuity of care and the paediatric medical home — branching viva
  • Developmental surveillance — branching viva
  • Diagnostic test selection and Bayesian reasoning in paediatrics — branching viva
  • Failure to thrive and faltering growth: diagnostic approach — viva
  • Fatigue and lethargy in children and adolescents — viva
  • Growth measurement, charting and interpretation — viva
  • Handover, referral and consultation in paediatrics — branching viva
  • Illness severity, deterioration and track-and-trigger systems — branching viva
  • Incidental findings and overdiagnosis in children — branching viva
  • Interpreting common paediatric laboratory reference ranges — viva
  • Lymphadenopathy and organomegaly: diagnostic approach — viva
  • Medication reconciliation and polypharmacy in children — branching viva
  • Multimorbidity and diagnostic overshadowing in children — branching viva
  • Oedema in children: diagnostic approach — viva
  • Paediatric history and age-adapted consultation — branching viva
  • Pallor in children: diagnostic approach — viva
  • Poor feeding in infants and children — branching viva
  • Recognising the seriously ill child and paediatric assessment triangle — branching viva
  • Safe disposition, escalation, referral and safety-netting — branching viva
  • Shared-care planning across primary, secondary and tertiary care — branching viva
  • Structured physical examination from newborn to adolescent — branching viva
  • Telehealth assessment and remote examination of children — branching viva
  • Weight loss in children and adolescents — viva
22

allergy-and-immunology

25 entries
  • Allergic disease in children: integrated approach: Viva
  • Allergic rhinitis and rhinoconjunctivitis — viva
  • Anaphylaxis prevention, action plans and autoinjectors — branching viva
  • Anaphylaxis: recognition and emergency management — branching viva
  • Antibody deficiencies — branching viva
  • Atopic dermatitis and the atopic march — viva
  • Complement deficiencies — branching viva
  • Cow's-milk protein allergy — branching viva
  • Drug allergy and delabelling in children — branching viva
  • Egg, wheat, soy, fish and shellfish allergy: Viva
  • Food allergy diagnosis and oral food challenge — branching viva
  • Food allergy management and prevention — branching viva
  • Immune dysregulation, lymphoproliferation and autoinflammatory disease — viva
  • Immunoglobulin replacement and antimicrobial prophylaxis — branching viva
  • Insect-sting hypersensitivity — branching viva
  • Latex allergy — branching viva
  • Oral allergy syndrome and pollen-food syndrome — branching viva
  • Peanut, tree-nut and seed allergy — branching viva
  • Phagocyte disorders — branching viva
  • Primary immunodeficiency: warning signs and diagnostic approach — branching viva
  • Secondary immunodeficiency — branching viva
  • Serum sickness and serum-sickness-like reactions — branching viva
  • T-cell and combined immunodeficiencies — branching viva
  • Urticaria and angioedema — branching viva
  • Vaccination of immunocompromised children — branching viva
23

haematology-oncology-and-transfusion

33 entries
  • Anaemia: diagnostic approach — viva
  • Aplastic anaemia and bone-marrow failure: Viva
  • Bleeding child: diagnostic approach: Viva
  • Blood-component therapy in children: Viva
  • Bone and soft-tissue sarcomas — branching viva
  • Brain and spinal tumours: Viva
  • Cancer therapy complications and supportive care: Viva
  • Childhood cancer warning signs and diagnostic pathways: Viva
  • Disseminated intravascular coagulation: Viva
  • Febrile neutropenia and infection in oncology: Viva
  • Full blood count and blood-film interpretation in children — branching viva
  • G6PD deficiency and enzymopathies: Viva
  • Germ-cell tumours: Viva
  • Haematopoietic stem-cell transplantation: Viva
  • Haemolytic anaemia: diagnostic approach: Viva
  • Hereditary spherocytosis and membrane disorders — branching viva
  • Iron deficiency anaemia — viva
  • Leukaemia in children: Viva
  • Long-term follow-up and late effects of childhood cancer: Viva
  • Lymphoma in children: Viva
  • Megaloblastic and macrocytic anaemia: Viva
  • Neuroblastoma: Viva
  • Neutropenia and neutrophil disorders: Viva
  • Pancytopenia and marrow infiltration: Viva
  • Sickle cell acute complications: Viva
  • Sickle cell disease: diagnosis and health maintenance: Viva
  • Thalassaemia syndromes: Viva
  • Thrombocytopenia and immune thrombocytopenia: Viva
  • Transfusion reactions and massive transfusion: Viva
  • Tumour lysis syndrome and oncologic emergencies: Viva
  • Venous thromboembolism, pulmonary embolism and thrombophilia in children — branching viva
  • Von Willebrand disease — branching viva
  • Wilms tumour and renal malignancies: Viva
24

infectious-diseases

39 entries
  • Animal bites, arthropod bites and zoonoses: Viva
  • Antimicrobial pharmacology, selection, dosing and stewardship in children — branching viva
  • Approach to fever by age and immune status — viva
  • Bacteraemia and occult bloodstream infection — branching viva
  • Brain abscess and intracranial suppuration — branching viva
  • Cellulitis, abscess and necrotising soft-tissue infection: Viva
  • Common viral exanthems — roseola and erythema infectiosum — branching viva
  • Congenital syphilis and perinatal STIs — branching viva
  • COVID-19 and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children: Viva
  • Dengue and other arboviral infections: Viva
  • Device-associated and healthcare-associated infection — branching viva
  • Enteric fever and invasive bacterial enteritis — branching viva
  • Epstein-Barr virus and cytomegalovirus infection — branching viva
  • Fever in the returned traveller — branching viva
  • Fungal infections in immunocompetent and immunocompromised children — branching viva
  • Hand-foot-and-mouth disease and enterovirus infection — branching viva
  • Hepatitis A, B, C and E in children — branching viva
  • Herpes simplex infection in children — branching viva
  • HIV exposure and infection in children — branching viva
  • Infection prevention, isolation and outbreak management — branching viva
  • Infections in immunocompromised children — viva
  • Influenza and antiviral treatment: Viva
  • Malaria in children: Viva
  • Measles, rubella and congenital rubella — branching viva
  • Meningitis and encephalitis: Viva
  • Mumps — branching viva
  • Paediatric sepsis: diagnosis, antimicrobial treatment and source control — branching viva
  • Parasitic infections in children: Viva
  • Pertussis — branching viva
  • Post-arrival infection screening — branching viva
  • Prolonged, recurrent and periodic fever — branching viva
  • Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome: Viva
  • Travel medicine and pre-travel advice for children — branching viva
  • Tuberculosis in children — branching viva
  • Undifferentiated fever and fever without a source in infants and children — formative viva
  • Urinary tract infection and pyelonephritis: Viva
  • Vaccine-preventable disease outbreak response — branching viva
  • Varicella and herpes zoster — branching viva
  • Viral upper respiratory tract infection and the common cold — branching viva
25

fetal-neonatal-and-perinatal

58 entries
  • Antenatally detected kidney and urinary-tract anomalies: newborn management — branching viva
  • Antenatally diagnosed fetal conditions: paediatric planning — branching viva
  • Apnoea of prematurity — structured oral (viva)
  • Bilious vomiting and neonatal intestinal obstruction — branching viva
  • Birth trauma and brachial plexus injury — branching viva
  • Bronchopulmonary dysplasia and chronic neonatal lung disease
  • Cephalhaematoma and subgaleal haemorrhage — branching viva
  • Congenital and perinatally acquired infections: Viva
  • Congenital anomalies and dysmorphic newborn assessment — branching viva
  • Congenital heart disease presenting in the newborn — branching viva
  • Conjugated jaundice and neonatal cholestasis: Viva
  • Extremely preterm infant viability and periviable counselling — viva
  • Family-integrated developmental care in NICU
  • Fetal assessment, prenatal screening and counselling — branching viva
  • Fetal growth restriction and small-for-gestational-age infant — viva
  • Follow-up after high-risk birth and NICU discharge — viva
  • Gestational age assessment and preterm classification — viva
  • Haemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn — branching viva
  • Hearing loss in high-risk neonates — structured oral (viva)
  • Human milk, fortification and preterm nutrition
  • Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy and therapeutic hypothermia — branching viva
  • Intraventricular haemorrhage and periventricular leukomalacia — branching viva
  • Large-for-gestational-age infant and infants of diabetic mothers — viva
  • Late-preterm infant: risks and corrected-age follow-up — viva
  • Maternal disease, medication and substance effects on the fetus — branching viva
  • Meconium aspiration syndrome — structured oral (viva)
  • Necrotising enterocolitis and spontaneous intestinal perforation — branching viva
  • Neonatal abstinence and withdrawal syndromes — branching viva
  • Neonatal acute kidney injury — viva
  • Neonatal air-leak syndromes — branching viva
  • Neonatal anaemia, polycythaemia and thrombocytopenia: Viva
  • Neonatal bacterial infection and sepsis: Viva
  • Neonatal cyanosis and collapsed neonate — branching viva
  • Neonatal fluid, electrolyte and nutritional management — viva
  • Neonatal gastro-oesophageal reflux and aspiration — structured oral (viva)
  • Neonatal hypothermia and thermoregulation — branching viva
  • Neonatal hypotonia and neuromuscular weakness — branching viva
  • Neonatal jaundice: unconjugated hyperbilirubinaemia: Viva
  • Neonatal pain assessment and procedural comfort - branching viva
  • Neonatal palliative care and end-of-life decision-making — viva
  • Neonatal respiratory distress — diagnostic approach — branching viva
  • Neonatal resuscitation and post-resuscitation stabilisation — branching viva
  • Neonatal seizures and encephalopathy — branching viva
  • Neonatal skin disorders and birthmarks — viva
  • Neonatal stroke and intracranial haemorrhage — branching viva
  • Neonatal transport and retrieval — branching viva
  • Newborn examination and screening — branching viva
  • Parenteral nutrition in neonates — viva
  • Patent ductus arteriosus in preterm infants — branching viva
  • Perinatal infection screening and prevention — viva
  • Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn
  • Poor feeding and feeding intolerance in the neonate — viva
  • Preterm infant — viva
  • Respiratory distress syndrome of prematurity — branching viva
  • Retinopathy of prematurity
  • Routine care of the healthy newborn — branching viva
  • Transient tachypnoea of the newborn — viva
  • Transition at birth and delayed cord clamping — branching viva
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professional-practice-and-evidence

35 entries
  • Best-interests decisions and treatment limitation — viva
  • Breaking bad news and serious-illness communication — branching viva
  • Clinical epidemiology and measures of effect — branching viva
  • Clinician wellbeing, fatigue and sustainable practice — branching viva
  • Communicating risk and uncertainty to families — branching viva
  • Confidentiality with children and adolescents — branching viva
  • Conflict, complaints and difficult clinical encounters — branching viva
  • Consent, parental responsibility and mature-minor frameworks — viva
  • Developmentally appropriate communication — branching viva
  • Diagnostic accuracy and screening statistics — branching viva
  • Ethical allocation of resources in paediatrics — viva
  • Evidence-based medicine and critical appraisal — branching viva
  • Family-centred and child-rights-based care — viva
  • Goals-of-care conversations and advance care planning for children — branching viva
  • Health literacy and accessible paediatric information — branching viva
  • High-value care, stewardship and avoiding low-value interventions — branching viva
  • Implementation science and translating evidence into practice — branching viva
  • Interpreting a systematic review — branching viva
  • Leadership and interprofessional team management — branching viva
  • Medication safety and error prevention in children — branching viva
  • Medicolegal documentation and expert evidence — branching viva
  • Open disclosure and duty of candour — branching viva
  • Paediatric consultation with child, young person and family — branching viva
  • Paediatric study design and bias — branching viva
  • Patient safety, human factors and systems thinking — branching viva
  • Professional boundaries and social media — branching viva
  • Quality improvement methods in child health — branching viva
  • Reading a statistical result — branching viva
  • Recognition, reporting and analysis of adverse events — branching viva
  • Refusal of treatment and disagreement over care — branching viva
  • Research ethics and assent in paediatric research — branching viva
  • Shared decision-making and assent in children — branching viva
  • Teaching, supervision and feedback in paediatrics — branching viva
  • Trauma-informed paediatric care — branching viva
  • Working with interpreters and culturally responsive communication — branching viva
27

ophthalmology

17 entries
  • Colour vision deficiency and inherited retinal disease: Viva
  • Congenital cataract and glaucoma — branching viva
  • Congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction — branching viva
  • Conjunctivitis and red eye — branching viva
  • Cortical visual impairment — branching viva
  • Leukocoria and retinoblastoma: Viva
  • Ocular trauma and chemical injury — branching viva
  • Ophthalmia neonatorum — branching viva
  • Ophthalmic manifestations of systemic disease: Viva
  • Paediatric eye examination and red-reflex assessment — branching viva
  • Papilloedema and optic nerve disorders: Viva
  • Preseptal and orbital cellulitis — branching viva
  • Refractive error in children — branching viva
  • Strabismus and ocular motility disorders — branching viva
  • Urgent ophthalmology referral and childhood vision loss: Viva
  • Uveitis in children — branching viva
  • Visual development, amblyopia and vision screening in childhood — branching viva