This guest blog from Munib Haroon takes up the challenge of turning the terror of technology to good… As I write these words there is a debate currently underway about whether machine intelligence will eclipse ours in the coming decades [for one end of this debate go see James Cameron’s The Terminator] meanwhile another debate […]
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Guest Blog: Addressing Child Poverty
This Guest Blog, by Caoimhe McKenna, David Taylor-Robinson, Sophie Wickham, Benjamin Barr and Rosie Kyeremateng, addresses the highly political issue of defining child poverty, within the UK context. We would welcome any and many comments on this blog, and via our usual social media channels! (As always, the libellous and frankly spamming will be blocked, but […]
Guest Blog: The trials and tribulations of answering clinical questions
For a recent evidence based paediatrics assignment we had to answer and present a clinical question. I’m sure you are well acquainted with the process; construct your question in standard PICO format, search your secondary and primary sources, critically appraise the evidence and draw your conclusions. Having noted a trend towards starting lamotrigine rather than […]
Guest blog: “To Play or not to Play”?
Play in its most intimate of forms allows for free expression, exploration, joy, and excitement . For others it’s a welcome distraction. What makes play become a tool, a balance barometer, a universal subject, is when it is introduced or offered to a child/young person (CYP) who requires an intervention, treatment or one who is […]
@PEdSIG #RCPCH15 – “Learning on the Job”
Q: What do you get when you take 50+ paediatric trainees/trainers/medical students, 7 fantastic facilitators, 3 challenges and 6 flipcharts? A: Many solutions and a roomful of conversation… (oh, and not much space left on the flipcharts!) PEdSIG was delighted to welcome a roomful of enthusiastic delegates to the symposium “Learning on the Job: Are […]
Mentoring And Quality Improvement Strengthen Integrated Management Of Common Childhood Illness In Rural Rwanda
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (ICMI) is the leading protocol designed to decrease under 5 mortality globally (WHO) – although its potential impact is threatened by quality of care. Magge and colleagues report the outcome of a nurse mentorship programme— Mentorship and Enhanced supervision at Health Centres (MESH) in two rural districts (21 rural health […]
Making decisions to limit treatment in life-limiting and life-threatening conditions in children
The revised Royal College of Paediatric and Child Health guidance on making decisions to limit treatment in life-limiting and life-threatening conditions in childhood has just been published. It provides an ethical and legal framework for practicing clinicians revised to reflect the changes in the scope and availability of advanced technology and in the emphasis and […]
More to do – Report from the Children and Young People’s Health Outcomes Forum
The UK Government set up an independent group to advise on strategies to improve the health outcomes of children and young people (from before birth to age 25 years) in January 2012. It’s role is to challenge the outcomes seen in England and offer advice on what strategies should concentrate on to improve. A new report has […]
Every paediatrician can spot a child with autism?
‘Course everyone can spot a child with autism. It’s there in the MRCPCH textbooks right? Something about a lack of speech and gaze avoidance and repetitive behaviour. That must be pretty amenable to a spot diagnosis. This is me being a little provocative because hopefully very few, if any paediatricians think like this. Hopefully we […]
Guest post: 5 rules parents wish we followed
There’s nothing that necessarily makes parents better paediatricians, or paediatricians better parents, but it’s true that experiencing different stuff can be a great teaching experience … And our guest blogger Lucinda Winckworth is giving is five great tips from experience on the other side of the baby gro… Since having my children I have experienced both […]