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New guidance on perplexing presentations and fabricated or induced illness in children

2 March 2021

The RCPCH has today launched new guidance for paediatricians on Perplexing Presentations (PP), Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII) in Children. This updates the College’s 2009 guidance and aims to support paediatricians when involved with these sometimes very difficult cases.

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How students can #ChoosePaediatrics

23 February 2021

During medical school, students tend to have limited time within speciality rotations and subsequently, healthcare professionals have a short window of opportunity to promote their chosen careers. Nevertheless, there are lots of ways for aspiring paediatricians to get involved. Alexandra Richards, U...

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Dr Laura Kelly elected as Chair of the Trainees’ Committee

9 February 2021

Dr Laura Kelly will be the next Chair of the Trainees’ Committee at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and will succeed Dr Hannah Jacob.

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Why we chose Python for the RCPCH Digital Growth Charts project

30 January 2021

When Dr Marcus Baw and colleagues set out to develop a new API for growth charts, they knew they'd have pick a technology with which to build a server. But which to choose? Here's why Python is the best programming language for this project.

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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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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.

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RCPCH responds to GMC report on medical education

27 November 2020

We respond to 'The state of medical education and practice in the UK', the flagship annual report from the General Medical Council (GMC).

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NPDA – The experiences of parents and patients

23 November 2020

Clinical Lead for the National Paediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA) Dr Justin Warner introduces us to the Parent and Patient Reported Experience Measures (PREM) report. This is their first report looking at over 13,000 responses from surveys completed by children and young people with diabetes, as well ...

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Digital child growth assessment – from print to digital

4 November 2020

Today we presented a webcast at Health Tech News on the College's award-winning digital growth assessment programme. We looked at the challenges of switching to growth charts in a digital form and the complex maths behind these charts - and then shared our recently developed application programme in...

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Meet the RCPCH Recruitment Team

28 October 2020

The College’s new Officer for Recruitment, Dr Simon Broughton, introduces the members behind his Recruitment Team: Dr Emma Coombe, Dr Kay Tyerman and Dr Alok Sharma. The team is committed to working together to promote paediatrics as a career and to always put trainees first.

New guidance on perplexing presentations and fabricated or induced illness in children

How students can #ChoosePaediatrics

Dr Laura Kelly elected as Chair of the Trainees’ Committee

Why we chose Python for the RCPCH Digital Growth Charts project

MTI, leadership and exploring roles in the College

Royal Colleges 3.0: ‘Best practice as code’

RCPCH responds to GMC report on medical education

NPDA – The experiences of parents and patients

Digital child growth assessment – from print to digital

Meet the RCPCH Recruitment Team

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