Childhood Hearing Loss: Screening, Aids and the Classroom — Board-Style Questions

What this deck covers

Childhood Hearing Loss: Screening, Aids and the Classroom 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. He passed at birth
2. Nothing noticed at home
3. One good ear is enough
4. She sits at the front
5. Twenty minutes a day
6. Was the first test wrong
7. Referred to therapy only
8. Every evening after work
9. Gone by the morning
10. He turned to her mother
11. Nobody has raised it
12. Will it get better
13. Referred for attention
14. Tested with a cold
15. A relative told them
16. Will she be held back
17. Over a single day
18. A third never come back

Diagnoses and management options tested

Across the 18 cases you are asked to choose between options such as: As a report of behaviour rather than of hearing, To use olive oil drops daily instead, An ear infection provoked by the earphones, A single test now, after, That the outlook depends entirely on the cause, An educational assessment first, As a reason to fit aids now, That she will need specialist schooling, Within a few weeks, A reminder by telephone rather than letter.

Clinical pearls from this deck

• A newborn screen is a photograph, not a guarantee.
• Hearing is easiest at home. That is why home misses it.
• A child with one hearing ear needs a plan, not congratulations.
• Seating is the least of it. Noise, faces and turn-taking are the rest.
• An aid in a drawer has no specification worth discussing.
• Hearing that has changed is a finding. Do not explain it away.

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 ENT case decks · pediatric reference values.