Paediatric emergency medicine is a vital part of Emergency Medicine, as children make up a large share of Emergency Department attendances.

This course covers the common and the time-critical: bronchiolitis, croup, the wheezy child, fever in under 5s, non-blanching rashes, diabetic ketoacidosis, epilepsy, head injury, burns and paediatric cardiac arrest.

MRCEM SBA questions often hinge on age-specific thresholds, weight-based doses and recognising the sick child early.