👶 Paediatrics
UPSC CMS Pediatrics Questions
Paediatrics forms part of UPSC CMS Paper I alongside General Medicine. It covers the full spectrum of child health — from newborn care and nutrition to common paediatric diseases, genetic disorders, and developmental milestones.
About Pediatrics in UPSC CMS
Paediatrics questions in UPSC CMS test knowledge of normal and abnormal growth and development, neonatal conditions, nutritional disorders, paediatric infections, and organ-specific diseases in children. Questions typically involve age-specific presentations and management.
The standard references are Ghai Essential Paediatrics and Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. CMS papers from 2020–2025 show approximately 50–60 paediatrics questions in Paper I.
Important Pediatrics Topics for UPSC CMS
✨ High-Yield Areas
Neonatology: Normal newborn assessment, neonatal jaundice (physiological vs pathological, management), neonatal sepsis, respiratory distress syndrome, birth asphyxia and Apgar scoring, congenital anomalies.
Growth and Development: Growth charts (WHO), developmental milestones (motor, language, social), failure to thrive, short stature evaluation, puberty milestones (Tanner staging).
Nutrition: Breastfeeding (exclusive breastfeeding guidelines), complementary feeding, protein-energy malnutrition (kwashiorkor vs marasmus, MUAC, SAM management), micronutrient deficiencies (vitamin A, D, iron, zinc), ICDS and national nutrition programmes.
Paediatric Infections: Vaccine-preventable diseases (measles, pertussis, tetanus, polio), national immunization schedule (NIS 2026), fever in children (management of febrile seizures), childhood tuberculosis, dengue and malaria in children.
Respiratory: Acute respiratory infections (pneumonia, bronchiolitis, croup), asthma in children (GINA guidelines), foreign body aspiration.
Gastrointestinal: Acute diarrhoea management (ORS, zinc, WHO guidelines), intussusception, pyloric stenosis, Hirschsprung disease.
CNS: Febrile convulsions, epilepsy in children, meningitis (CSF interpretation), cerebral palsy (classification, management), neural tube defects.
Genetic and Congenital: Down syndrome, Turner syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, congenital heart diseases (VSD, ASD, TOF — clinical features and management principles).
Growth and Development: Growth charts (WHO), developmental milestones (motor, language, social), failure to thrive, short stature evaluation, puberty milestones (Tanner staging).
Nutrition: Breastfeeding (exclusive breastfeeding guidelines), complementary feeding, protein-energy malnutrition (kwashiorkor vs marasmus, MUAC, SAM management), micronutrient deficiencies (vitamin A, D, iron, zinc), ICDS and national nutrition programmes.
Paediatric Infections: Vaccine-preventable diseases (measles, pertussis, tetanus, polio), national immunization schedule (NIS 2026), fever in children (management of febrile seizures), childhood tuberculosis, dengue and malaria in children.
Respiratory: Acute respiratory infections (pneumonia, bronchiolitis, croup), asthma in children (GINA guidelines), foreign body aspiration.
Gastrointestinal: Acute diarrhoea management (ORS, zinc, WHO guidelines), intussusception, pyloric stenosis, Hirschsprung disease.
CNS: Febrile convulsions, epilepsy in children, meningitis (CSF interpretation), cerebral palsy (classification, management), neural tube defects.
Genetic and Congenital: Down syndrome, Turner syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, congenital heart diseases (VSD, ASD, TOF — clinical features and management principles).
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