Tag: pediatrics

How COVID-19 Has Affected My Role as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
When I graduated and became a licensed and certified pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP) last summer, I had no idea that my first year working as a PNP [...]

Can you answer these 4 Pediatrics Practice Questions?
Have you started studying for the Pediatrics Board Exam? Hopefully, you have because this exam is no easy feat. The 2018 pass rate was 91% and the [...]

More Pediatricians Are Dismissing Patients Who Refuse to Vaccinate
The anti-vaccination movement was born of one report in the British journal, The Lancet, in 1998 by Dr. Andrew Wakefield (this has since [...]

Developments in Identifying Potential Root Causes of Autism
Recently scientists made several interesting discoveries about autism - particularly the ways in which new information can be found. The findings [...]

NEW MOCA-Peds Option Coming in 2019 for Pediatrics
The American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) has heard the call and answered. Beginning in 2019 there will be a new way to fulfill the require [...]

You Know You Are a Pediatrician When…
As a pediatrician you give vaccines, check rashes, explain infant behavior to nervous new parents, diagnose screaming children, and tell parents w [...]

Failed Your Pediatric Board Exam? What’s next?
So your Pediatric Board Exam didn't go as planned. There is no way to sugar coat it- you failed the boards. Now you are faced with another round o [...]
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