Progress curriculum

This page aims to provide you with the all-important answers to some of the questions we are sure you have in relation to Shape of training.

Healthcare is changing and the paediatric training programme needs to adapt in order to prepare doctors for this. Published in October 2020, this is a guide to the RCPCH principles for postgraduate paediatric training and how to apply them within local training programmes.

We offer guidance on how we would advise Educational Supervisors and ARCP panels to assess their trainees due for their annual reviews for 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

As always, we're supporting paediatric trainees in the UK. As we move into an unprecedented and extremely challenging period, we provide some guidance on how trainees can continue to gain valuable capabilities around the curriculum, and provide examples and practical tips.

All doctors need the practical skills to perform clinical procedures for safe, effective patient care – adapting to meet the needs of the infant, child or young person. Consultant and trainee paediatricians explore how to continually learn and develop skills in procedures for this curriculum domain.

Our booklet brings together voices, views, ideas and experiences from children, young people and their families on our paediatric training curriculum. As a trainee, you can use this to help inform and shape your service, practice and reflections.

The safety of all children is paramount and the divine factor of all areas in paediatrics. This domain requires the trainee to consider safeguarding as an essential element of all aspects of paediatric healthcare practice be that with children and young people, parents and carers, other care profess...

In 2018 the GMC (General Medical Council) approved a new syllabus for paediatric training, RCPCH Progress. This guide has been developed to help trainees achieve and evidence the specialty learning objectives (SLO) and key capabilities (KC) set out in the level 3 paediatric neurology syllabus.

Patient management is important for paediatricians be that with children and young people, parents and carers, other care professionals or colleagues.

This Charter outlines what trainees expect from every training unit in the UK, across key domains. We hope that training units will strive to achieve these aims and that the Charter will be a hallmark of high quality local training. References from the GMC and Gold Guide have been given.