Paeds Vivas · adolescent-and-young-adult-medicine
Adolescent chronic pain and functional symptoms — branching viva
Branching viva on validating chronic pain, screening for red flags once, reframing with central sensitisation, co-building a function-first interdisciplinary plan, school reintegration and avoiding opioid escalation.
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RACP General PaediatricsRACP DCEMRCPCH ClinicalRCPSC Pediatrics
Prompt
You are the paediatric registrar in adolescent clinic. The examiner will move from a first presentation of chronic widespread pain, to central sensitisation counselling, to an interdisciplinary plan, to a school-absence disclosure and a red-flag challenge.
Stem
The examiner will test whether you can run a validating, function-first chronic-pain pathway under pressure — refusing both over-investigation and dismissal. [1] [2]
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