Paediatric Skin Disease in Skin of Colour — Board-Style Questions

What this deck covers

Paediatric Skin Disease in Skin of Colour 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. Recorded as mild
2. No obvious redness
3. Not in the creases
4. Not red in the notes
5. Worse than the rash itself
6. Worried it is permanent
7. Which colour to write
8. It looked different
9. Wash it every day
10. A dark line in the nail
11. Is it an endocrine sign
12. No bruising seen
13. What she came about
14. The diagnoses are the same
15. He increased the strength
16. Reported as bruising
17. Chronic, and left alone
18. A single session

Diagnoses and management options tested

Across the 18 cases you are asked to choose between options such as: A follicular infection, As psoriasis, A photograph, Choosing, As trauma from nail biting, Whether it fades when the skin is stretched, Photographs of the whole body, Scarring from previous disease.

Clinical pearls from this deck

• When redness is hard to read, grade on symptoms and sleep instead.
• Follicular prominence is one of the commonest faces of eczema.
• The textbook flexural pattern is one pattern, not the pattern.
• Three signs of inflammation need no colour at all. Use those.
• Ask what is bothering the family. It is often the colour, not the rash.
• Look at the edge. Soft and partial is not the same as sharp and white.

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 dermatology case decks · pediatric reference values.