A paediatric trainee asks what the EBP-EAP Examination is intended to assess. Which statement is most accurate?
Exam Identity And Logistics
Question · Easy
A candidate reads that the EBP-EAP Examination is linked with CESMA and UEMS. What is the best interpretation of this information?
Name of the newborn score taken at one and five minutes that rates heart rate, breathing, muscle tone, reflexes and colour.
Newborn medicine
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Chapter 1: Exam Structure, Governance, Ethics & Child Safeguarding
EBP-EAP Format, Delivery, Scoring, and Clinical Vignette Strategy
Study guide
A doctor has completed 32 months of recognised paediatric training and plans to apply for the EBP-EAP Examination. Which application documentation set is most appropriate?
Read the clue and guess the term in 6 tries.
Game
During preparation, a candidate wants to simulate the EBP-EAP Examination format. Which practice session best matches the official format?
Live vaccine against tuberculosis, given once in infancy, that protects young children against tuberculous meningitis and miliary disease.
Infection and immunisation
A candidate asks why the pass mark from a previous EBP-EAP sitting should not be treated as a guaranteed pass mark for the next sitting. Which answer is best?
A doctor passes the EBP-EAP Examination and asks what this result automatically guarantees. Which response is most accurate?
Combination vaccine given in two doses at least one month apart to protect against three viral infections.
Paediatric Ethics, Consent/Assent, Gillick Competence, and Patient Safety
A candidate is registered for the 2026 EBP-EAP sitting. Which statement about the sitting and examination conduct is correct?
Swap tiles to line up three of the same term.
Term Match
A term newborn is delivered after an uncomplicated pregnancy. After drying, warming, positioning the airway, and gentle stimulation, the baby remains apnoeic and the heart rate is 80/min. What is the single best next step?
Neonatal Care
Neurodevelopmental difference affecting communication and behaviour, often with repetitive movements or strong fixed interests.
Mental health and behaviour
A vigorous term infant is born in a delivery room. The baby is breathing well and has good tone. Which immediate care plan best prevents avoidable early neonatal morbidity?
A 14-hour-old term baby is noted to be visibly jaundiced. The baby is feeding but appears sleepy. What is the most appropriate response?
Condition of life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by an extreme immune response to infection.
Emergency medicine
Child Protection, Physical/Emotional Abuse, Neglect, and Non-Accidental Injury (NAI)
An 18-day-old infant is brought to the emergency department with poor feeding and a rectal temperature of 38.4 C. The baby was born at term and had been well until today. What is the single best management approach?
Flip two cards at a time to find matching terms.
Term Pairs
A 7-month-old infant has dropped from the 50th to below the 9th weight centile over 3 months. Length and head circumference remain close to previous centiles. The infant is alert, with no acute illness. What is the most appropriate first step?
Growth And Development
Childhood airway illness with a barking cough, hoarse voice and noisy breathing that is often worse at night.
Respiratory disorders
At an 18-month health review, a child has no spoken words, does not point to show interest, rarely responds to name, and has lost previously used gestures. Hearing has never been formally tested. What is the single best next step?
A 4-month-old infant is due routine immunisations. The infant has mild coryza, is afebrile, feeding normally, and has no previous vaccine reactions. What is the best advice?
Immunisation
Common chronic childhood airway condition with cough, wheeze and breathlessness caused by inflammation and muscle tightening.
Chapter 2: Neonatal Transition, Resuscitation & Prematurity
Delivery Room Care, Apgar Scoring, and Neonatal Resuscitation Algorithm
A 15-month-old child receiving intensive chemotherapy is due a live attenuated measles-mumps-rubella vaccine. The child is neutropenic and lymphopenic. What is the best plan?
Find five hidden terms in a grid of letters.
Term Search
A child developed generalised urticaria, wheeze, and hypotension within minutes of a previous vaccine dose, requiring intramuscular adrenaline. What is the best approach to the next dose of the same vaccine?
Common infectious agent that can cause severe lower airway illness in infants, especially before six months of age.
A 3-month-old infant who is not yet rolling is brought with several bruises on the upper arms and trunk. The caregiver says the baby bruises easily from normal handling. What is the most appropriate response?
Safeguarding
A 4-year-old presents with a scald burn involving both feet with a clear upper margin. The history changes between caregivers and there was a long delay before seeking care. What is the best next action?
Congenital heart defect in which the fetal vessel joining the pulmonary artery to the aorta fails to close after birth, sending extra blood to the lungs.
Heart disease
Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS), Surfactant Therapy, and Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
A 14-year-old discloses sexual activity with a much older adult and asks that no one be told. The adolescent appears frightened and describes pressure to keep the relationship secret. What is the best response?
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A 9-month-old has had fever to 39.1 C for 24 hours with no cough, coryza, vomiting, diarrhoea, or rash. The child is alert but unsettled, with normal chest examination and no focus on ear or throat examination. What is the single best next investigation?
Common Infections
Metabolic emergency with high glucose, a low blood pH or bicarbonate and raised beta-hydroxybutyrate, treated with fluids before an insulin infusion.
Endocrine disorders
A 2-year-old presents with fever, lethargy, cool peripheries, delayed capillary refill, and a rapidly spreading non-blanching purpuric rash. What is the best immediate management?
Question · Medium
A 16-month-old has acute watery diarrhoea and vomiting for 18 hours. The child is thirsty, has mildly dry mucous membranes, normal mental state, and passes urine less often than usual. There is no blood in the stool. What is the best initial treatment?
Bacterial illness in a child that needs a clean-catch specimen before antibiotics and is confirmed by microscopy and culture.
Kidney and bladder
Perinatal Asphyxia, HIE Sarnat Staging, and Therapeutic Hypothermia Protocol
A 3-year-old has 1 day of ear pain after a viral cold. Temperature is 38.2 C, the child is otherwise well, and otoscopy shows a red bulging tympanic membrane on one side without perforation. What is the best initial approach in most settings?
A 5-month-old has 2 days of coryza followed by cough, wheeze, fine crackles, and mild subcostal recession. Oxygen saturation is 96% in air, feeding is more than half normal, and there has been no apnoea. What is the best management?
Respiratory Illness
Condition in which stomach contents cause troublesome symptoms or complications requiring medical treatment.
Gut and liver
An 8-year-old with known asthma presents with acute wheeze. The child is too breathless to complete sentences, respiratory rate is high, oxygen saturation is 91% in air, and there is widespread expiratory wheeze. What is the best immediate treatment?
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