The Routine Newborn Examination — Board-Style Questions

What this deck covers

The Routine Newborn Examination 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. Waiting since Friday
2. Home in six hours
3. Calling it a repeat
4. Checked for everything
5. Seen but never felt
6. Asking for a procedure
7. At some point, by somebody
8. Up again when he cries
9. Mentioning it in six weeks
10. Two dimples, one concern
11. Done before they go home
12. Sent back again
13. Too bright to see
14. A limp at ten months
15. Near the end of the list
16. A summary that says nothing
17. Each assumed the other
18. A tick and some blanks

Diagnoses and management options tested

Across the 18 cases you are asked to choose between options such as: Auditing the first examiner, A referral for imaging of the palate, As descended but retractile, A copy of the record.

Clinical pearls from this deck

• The examination is owed in hours from birth, whatever the ward is doing.
• Book it, do not detain her. Trained hands or it is not the examination.
• The second examination looks for what the first could not see.
• Tell them what a normal examination does not cover.
• A finger finds what the torch cannot. Do both, record both.
• Divide for feeding, never for appearance.

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 neonatology case decks · pediatric reference values.