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MTI, leadership and exploring roles in the College

27 January 2021

Dr Hamudi Kisat, a Paediatric Consultant at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, tells us about his role as Deputy Chair for the Medical Training Initiative (MTI) scheme, attracting international trainees to paediatrics and improving paediatric care in their home countries.

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Seven small things for wellbeing

26 January 2021

Dr Sarah Vepers shares her 2020 wellbeing journey, talking about celebrating the small things in life and gives her top seven tips for improving your wellbeing.

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The challenges of child safeguarding

22 January 2021

Editors of the Child Protection Companion Dr Fiona Straw and Dr Becky Sands discuss their work in child safeguarding, the challenges facing paediatricians and the work of the College in this area.

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Disability Matters: a welcome addition to the medical school curriculum

20 January 2021

Elizabeth Lawson, a final year medical student, discusses the benefits of learning about disability medicine via this online resource and recommends its use alongside traditional undergraduate teaching methods.

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If you care how paediatricians are trained, this is the role for you

19 January 2021

David Evans looks back at a rewarding - and fun - five years as Vice President for Training and Assessment, and explains what he's enjoyed, what's been unexpected and why the next postholder will never be bored.

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Talking about the pandemic’s impact on training and the general workforce

15 January 2021

Dr Hannah Jacob, Chair of the Trainees Committee offers advice, tips and tools to help address some of the current worries voiced by members during these trying times.

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How can we support children in care during the pandemic?

21 December 2020

Local authorities and partner agencies have a duty to be corporate parents to children in care, but research tells us that children in care have, on average, poorer health outcomes, increased mental health problems, poorer educational attainment, increased risk-taking behaviour, and an increased ris...

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An ode to my hospital

21 December 2020

After a wonderful ST1 year at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich, Dr Sian Vermeulen couldn’t help but write a short farewell poem to sum up her time there.

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Contributing to the development of paediatricians

15 December 2020

As Regional Lead for Mersey, Dr Rosaline Garr relishes the opportunity to be involved in the development of paediatricians. Whether that be through contributing to Paediatrics 2040 and forecasting for the future, acting as MRCPCH examiner or being a course facilitator for Effective Educational Super...

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Royal Colleges 3.0: ‘Best practice as code’

8 December 2020

Dr Marcus Baw has spent the last few months working with RCPCH on a project to deliver a Digital Growth Charts web service. It’s been a hugely interesting project to help digitise the complex clinical logic of growth chart use into code. He explains more in this blog.