Immunisation: Schedule, Catch-up and Contraindications — Board-Style Questions

What this deck covers

Immunisation: Schedule, Catch-up and Contraindications in 18 board-style clinical cases with worked explanations. Each case gives you a clinical vignette, four options, the correct answer, and an explanation of why each of the other three is wrong, with the guideline or textbook it follows named on the answer.

Board-style teaching questions for paediatricians and trainees preparing for paediatric board, MRCPCH and licensing examinations. Written from published guidelines and standard paediatric textbooks, with the source named on every answer.

The 18 cases, in order

1. Why the same one again
2. Whether today is the day
3. What happened last time
4. How many can go ahead
5. What the relative said
6. How soon he can return
7. Nothing written down
8. Fourteen months late
9. What to have at home
10. A baby who came for injections
11. Which preparation for him
12. A vaccine he thought was for girls
13. Ten minutes and a worried parent
14. When a parent still says no
15. A weekend in the fridge
16. Given two weeks early
17. It went badly last time
18. Where the gap actually is

Diagnoses and management options tested

Across the 18 cases you are asked to choose between options such as: Proceed with the antihistamine, One week, Give a single dose of each vaccine, The nasal vaccine at half strength, Publishing the figures.

Clinical pearls from this deck

• Explain why there are three. Families complete courses they understand.
• The missed appointment does more harm than the runny nose ever would.
• Almost nothing is a true contraindication. This is the one that is.
• Learn the false ones. They cost more children their protection than the true one.
• Egg allergy is not a barrier. Say it plainly, because everyone believes otherwise.
• Same day or four weeks. Nothing in between.

Work through the deck once for recognition, then again a week later to test yourself — each question gives the answer and explains why every other option fails.

More from this system: all Infectious Disease case decks · pediatric reference values.