Pediatrics for NEET PG

What Pediatrics covers

• Growth and development
• Neonatology
• Nutrition and malnutrition
• Immunisation
• Paediatric infections
• Genetic and metabolic disorders
• Systemic paediatrics
• Paediatric emergencies

A study map from the standard curriculum. Check the official bulletin for the authoritative topic list.

How to study it

1. 1

   Memorise milestones and the vaccine schedule as tables and revise them often.

2. 2

   Learn neonatal jaundice, sepsis and respiratory distress as decision paths.

3. 3

   Check the current national immunisation schedule from an official source.

Where students slip

• Using an outdated vaccine schedule.
• Mixing up milestone ages.

Where the Pediatrics practice questions concentrate

Our 861 worked Pediatrics questions fall into these areas, largest first. This shows what our practice set emphasises. It is not a prediction of the exam's weightage.

• Neonatology 112
• Systemic paediatrics 66
• Paediatric infections 50
• Genetic and metabolic disorders 48
• Immunisation 48
• Growth and development 41
• Paediatric emergencies 38
• Cardiology 33
• Neurology 32
• Infections 30
• Nutrition 28
• Nutrition and malnutrition 27

Browse all Pediatrics worked questions

Four quick-revision cards

• Which vaccines are given at birth under India's UIP?

  BCG, zero-dose oral polio and hepatitis B birth dose. Confirm against the current schedule.

• Components of Tetralogy of Fallot?

  Pulmonary stenosis, VSD, overriding aorta, right ventricular hypertrophy.

• When does a social smile, head holding, sitting and walking appear?

  Social smile 2 months; head holding 3 months; sitting about 6 months; walking about 12 months.

• What does jaundice in the first 24 hours imply?

  Always pathological. Think haemolysis: Rh or ABO incompatibility, G6PD deficiency.

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