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Applications for next year's Specialty Training 1 (ST1) posts in paediatrics open in late October, with interviews in early 2024. It's not too soon to start your prep, and our Officer for Recruitment and Trainee Representative for Recruitment have teamed up to give you essential updates and tips.

The College is hosting this new virtual event in collaboration with the RCPCH Trainee Research Network. It will be an exciting day of workshops on multiple topics to support non-academic clinicians beginning their research career.

Join us for our first listening event in our Thrive Paediatrics programme, taking place in London over one day. This event has the collective wellbeing and working lives of paediatricians at its heart. Because we matter. We matter as individuals and as paediatricians who deliver high quality care to...

Can you find your ultimate career in paediatrics? Explore the exciting opportunities this specialty has to offer in our careers booklet. It's packed full of advice and resources from current trainees and paediatricians from all levels giving you top tip information from recruitment to the varied car...

Dr Blanche Lumb has a passion for finding paediatricians of the future, and so is in her perfect role as the new RCPCH Trainee Representative for Recruitment. She reports back from her time at June's annual conference, and reminds aspiring paediatricians of our annual prizes.

The fifth annual Epilepsy12 and Organisation of Paediatric Epilepsy Networks (OPEN UK) national conference took place on Wednesday 21 September 2022. You can find conference resources and more information about the event on this page.

Camilla updates on the College’s work to advocate for child health, and how listening to the ideas of medical students and foundation doctors can inspire and energise.

"Kids are fun, fact!", says Dr Hannah Baynes. From helping adolescents make positive change to their health to working, and celebrating, with multiprofessional colleagues, she tells us why she enjoys working in paediatrics.