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AMERICAN BOARD OF PEDIATRICS

Questions are often asked of the American Board of Pediatrics about content, nature, and objectives of its examinations. Two articles have previously been published which were intended to answer these queries.1,2
 Candidates are expected to have sufficient factual knowledge and to have a sufficiently enlightened approach to children and their troubles to be able to handle problems encountered in a pediatrician's office and in hospitals where seriously ill children are cared for. The candidate should know how to diagnose and treat the medical illnesses which kill children, which cripple them, or which impair their physical or mental health. The pediatrician cannot be a psychiatrist, but he can advise parents in the problems of child-rearing. The pediatrician cannot be a school teacher, but he should know something of our schools and the problems of school children. He cannot be a geneticist, but he must understand the known mechanisms which lead to congenital and hereditary ills, so that he can give counsel to parents burdened with an abnormal child. He should understand the variations in physical and mental growth so that he can allay unnecessary fears or, if need be, take steps to manage significant deviations from normal. He should be able to assist the surgeon in preoperative and postoperative care of infants and children. He should know how to manage the premature infant, the normal newborn infant, the growing child, and the adolescent. Above all, he must recognize the seriously ill child and know how to treat him. He must be a useful consultant in the care of seriously ill children.