Paediatric careers

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...

A full day of workshops and guest speakers aimed at researchers and trainees looking to develop their careers within paediatric research. This year our annual Academic Trainees Day takes place virtually with Microsoft Teams.

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.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, rapid evidence in its treatment of children and young people was crucial, and Dr McArdle's research in this area became of international importance.

Each year, with support from GOSH Charity and Sparks, we offer this prestigious award of £2,000 to one early independent researcher in paediatrics. We speak with this year's winner about his research to improve the lifelong health of preterm babies, plus his tips for aspiring researchers.

"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.

Dr Felicity Beal is in her fifth year of paediatric training, and tells us about the opportunities she's had, from looking after premature babies to working in general paediatrics, to learning about fascinating sub-specialities, such as caring for children who've had a kidney, liver or small bowel t...

In celebration of International Women's Day 2022, we reached out to Dr Ngozi Edi-Osagie, consultant paediatrician and RCPCH Officer for Genomics, to share her thoughts about working in paediatrics and neonatology research.

An introduction to Professor David Barker, an obstetrician and epidemiologist - and a gentle and thoughtful man - gave shape to what Dr Simon Chapman had maybe known but been unable to define: why he ended up in medicine. Simon introduces our #ChoosePaediatrics theme of the month: the influence and...