AKP: Endocrinology and Growth
Growth, puberty, endocrine axes, hormone disorders, interpretation of tests and replacement or suppressive treatment. Integrate history, examination, images, radiographs, ECGs and other data to choose the best diagnosis, investigation, management or escalation.
How to prepare across FOP, TAS and AKP
Learn each paediatric specialty through three different lenses: common clinical foundations, underlying science, and applied clinical decision making.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Recognise abnormal growth, puberty and common endocrine presentations.
Exam cue: Synthesize the decisive findings, identify the time point and choose the action that most safely changes management.
Concept 2
Apply feedback loops, receptor action, dynamic testing and hormone physiology.
Exam cue: Interpret growth and endocrine data to select diagnosis, investigation and treatment.
Concept 3
Interpret growth and endocrine data to select diagnosis, investigation and treatment.
Exam cue: Recognise adrenal crisis, severe electrolyte disturbance and endocrine emergencies.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Do not select a generally true statement when the stem requires the best next decision for the current acuity and stage of care.
Guardrail: Do not choose a plausible fact that answers a different exam lens or a different time point.
Do not transfer adult norms, doses or decision thresholds to a child without checking age, development and weight.
Guardrail: Do not calculate until weight, units, concentration, maximum dose and monitoring are explicit.
Do not infer a fixed Endocrinology and Growth item count from the published 25%-33% range band.
Guardrail: Do not choose a plausible fact that answers a different exam lens or a different time point.
Memory anchors
AKP lens
Integrate history, examination, images, radiographs, ECGs and other data to choose the best diagnosis, investigation, management or escalation.
Endocrinology and Growth: foundation
Recognise abnormal growth, puberty and common endocrine presentations.
Endocrinology and Growth: science
Apply feedback loops, receptor action, dynamic testing and hormone physiology.
Endocrinology and Growth: applied practice
Interpret growth and endocrine data to select diagnosis, investigation and treatment.
Endocrinology and Growth: safety check
Recognise adrenal crisis, severe electrolyte disturbance and endocrine emergencies.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
An 8-year-old's height has fallen from the 25th to below the 2nd centile over two years. Weight has risen to the 75th centile. What diagnosis should be prioritised?
A 10-day-old has vomiting, weight loss, dehydration, sodium 124 mmol/L, potassium 7.1 mmol/L and hypoglycaemia. Genital examination is atypical. What is the most likely diagnosis?
Answer all questions to submit.
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