There’s an explosion of stuff about paediatrics and here in the ADC we hope to show you the sparkliest bits. Drugs (good ones, not naughty ones) are very interesting and @Pharmaforkids is going to explore some of the mysteries of dosing and formulation in a series of articles. This may sound simple, and there is one answer […]
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P3: Illustration and presentation
Medicine progresses as evidence is accrued to support improved practice – it is supposed. Yet psychological science has long shown that standard “powerpoint” presentations are a very poor means of data transfer: different visual and auditory inputs cannot be processed at the same time. Moreover it is impossible to internally question data or remember data […]
StatsMiniBlog: Complex vs. Complicated
These two words, though often used synonymously are different – do you know how? It’s actually not that difficult. Complicated = made of lots of parts, but “logical and rational” — like a car engine, 10001 piece jigsaw of the Gobi desert, or (dare I say it) a heart Complex = constructed with pieces with […]
Can we incentivise improvements in child health? (Part 2)
In an earlier post, I entered a world of capitation, fee-for-service, block contracting and incentivisation, all ways of levering people to ‘do the right thing’, and ending by asking how to know what the ‘right thing’ was. We could do this a number of ways – we can ask people; we can measure universally agreed […]
P3: Deciding on content
The most important concept in developing and delivering a presentation is the understanding that you cannot “cover everything.” Nor should you attempt to. Your role as a presenter is to convert the “what” of “everything” into a “so what” for your particular audience. For many, both on the podium and in the audience, this is a dramatic shift in […]
Can we incentivise improvements child health? (Part 1)
It’s sometimes tricky to move one’s mind from treating the acutely unwell child, or caring for those with palliative needs, or fixing referrals to a series of health and social care colleagues and think about how we encourage people to ‘do the right thing’ in the NHS. As our previous blog explored, management is a […]
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 […]
P3: A presentation is the product of its parts, not simply a powerpoint.
In this blog, Ross Fisher (aka @ffolliet) takes us into a little-taught area of medical professionalism. Presentations. In this introductory blog, we’ll be introduced to a new (well, new-to-me) way of thinking about the oft-repeated act of standing before an audience of our peers and beginning to speak … We teach clinical skills and yet presentation […]
Networking in academia, where will it take you?
“Without Fleming, no Chain; without Chain, no Florey; without Florey, no Heatley; without Heatley, no penicillin.” Ask people about the discovery of penicillin and the majority picture Alexander Fleming making his momentous breakthrough alone, in his laboratory with only a petri dish of mould for company. The reality of course was much much […]
When did you last ask about the manufacturer?
It’s been a week of finding out things I didn’t know I didn’t know about. iCarly, for one. Life expectancy in young people with deliberate self harm for another. And fake medicines. [polldaddy poll=8567907] […]