DNB MARCH PAPER 2021

1.Kawasaki management 

2.Emergency triage management

3.Fever with rash diff diag

4.Approach to upper resp tract obstruction 

5.Role of fundus examinations in ped 

6.Drug surveillance

7.Scorpion sting

8.Role of cbc in opd

9.Prevention of obesity in adolescents

10.Psychosocial screening of adolescents

11.Supratentorial tumours 

12.SVT types and svt with circulatory failure mangement

13.Organ donation

14.Septic shock

15.Down syndrome morbidity evaluation 

16.Diagnosis of Wilson's disease

17.VSD surgical closure indications

18.Endocrine causes of short stature and its approach

19.Complications of p.falciparm malaria

20.Breath holding spells


1) Modified GCS

2) Management of acute lung injury

3) PMIS

4) Prevention of covid 19

5) Metabolic autopsy

6) Oxygen dissociation curve

7) Importance of human milk banking

8) Modes of ventilation

9) Counselling of chronic diseases

10) Point of care USG in PICU

11) Indications of IVIG

12) Plasmapheresis

13) Pediatric pain management

14) Immuno modulators 

15) Cyber bullying

16) Principles of gene therapy

17) Intergeneration cycle of malnutrition

18) Hyperoxia test

19) Rapid sequence intubation

20) Prenatal diagnosis in genetic disorders

1.Henoch schonlein purpura - clinical and management

2.ALL risk stratification

3.NRP

4.Neonatal seizure

5.Hie staging and management

6.Surgical emergencies in newborn

7.Approach to respiratory distress in newborn

8.Management of steroid resistant nephrotic syndrome

9.Autoimmune encephalitis

10. Craniosynostosis

11.Pointof care testing of UTI

12.Autism spectrum disorder management

13.Approach to child with recurrent wheeze

14.Management of transfusion dependent thalassemia

15.Bone age assessment and physical growth in children

16. Diagnosis of TB meningitis

17.Overview of learning disabilities in children

18 .Adolescent vaccination

19. Vaccine hesitancy

20.Management of nutritional rickets


1.Fetal circulation with diagramatic repreentation and changes after bith 

2. Duct dependant congenital heart lesions 

3. pathophysiology of right to leftlesions with illustrations 

4. Levels of facial nerve lesions 

5. Indicators of child health 

6. Programs to reduce IMR

7. Quality of care improvements in health sector with an example 

8. Cyber bullying in children preventive(? protective) measures 

9. What's Child labour and measures to prevent 

10. NTEP management of TB in children (10 mark) 

11. Various Study designs in research methodology with example for each (10 mark) 

12. importance and role of following in Health and disease

  cu, Zn, mg in nutrition and disease (3+4+3 mark) 

13. Evolution of hemoglobin from embryonic to adult life 

14. Hemoglobin in first year and their implications in identifying hemoglobinopathies 

15. Chi square test 

16. Salient points on different patterns of inheritance

17. Development of trachea, esophagus and diaphragm. Different types of TOF with diagram