As a current or prospective trainee, or an educational supervisor, we understand you'll have questions about how these changes will affect you and your colleagues. Our FAQs are from conversations around the UK.
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Membership
Milestones magazineYoung people are at the forefront of this special RCPCH &Us edition - as they interview paediatricians about their jobs, meet the Milestones editorial team and tell us about their projects.
Become a memberWe have varied membership types - for medical students and foundation doctors, new trainees and post-MRCPCH doctors, affiliated child health professionals and retired paediatricians. Our questionnaire helps find the best type for you! -
Education and careers
Progress+ is coming soonLive from this summer, Progress+ builds on the current curriculum, and will be flexible and fulfilling. Our FAQs, resources and updates outline what to expect. -
Work we do
Our clinical auditsOur audits aim to improve care and health outcomes for babies, children and young people. They cover neonatal medicine, epilepsy, diabetes, child protection services and PGHAN. -
Resources
Workforce pressures this winterWe continue to call on national governments to support paediatrics and child health - including fully costed, evidence-based strategies on workforce and health inequalities.
How can you increase patient engagement?We deliver guidance on how to involve children and young people, and their families, in strategic decision making. -
Key topics
Climate changeChildren are among the most vulnerable to the health risks of climate change. We’re looking at what we can all do to help combat climate change for the future benefit of children and young people.
GenomicsIt has the potential to change our approaches to healthcare. Our ambitious new programme aims to address unmet need across the sector, in order to improve the health of children and young people. -
News and events
#RCPCH2023 abstracts - last chance!Share your project work, get constructive feedback and promote yourself, team and institution. The deadline is Monday, 6 February at midnight.
Podcast on health inequalitiesChildren living in poverty are more likely to experience poorer health outcomes. Three paediatricians talk about how to open up conversations with families about poverty.
Answering your questions
We've filled this page with guidance about the changes, but we know there are many individual circumstances.
Our Progress+ and me flyer explains how current trainees at each level will move through the training programme, with detail on sub-specialty applications.
You can download the Progress+ curriculum document, which includes the Learning Outcomes and Key Capabilities all trainees will need, as well as the two syllabi for core and specialty training. For use from summer 2023.
Published in October 2020 as we started to develop Progress+, this guide introduces our 11 principles for postgraduate paediatric training - these are listed further down this page - and how to apply them within local programmes.