Following on from the previous podcast, here are the team’s top tips for making the most of your workplace based assessment.

This latest ADC podcast is hosted by Becky Hodgkinson, Paediatric Specialist Registrar and Chair of the London Deanery School of Paediatrics’ Trainees’ Committee.

She talks with fellow trainees’ committee representatives, Chloe Macaulay, Medical Teaching Fellow and Paediatric Specialist Registrar, Ronny Cheung, Previous Fellow in Medical Education who has developed a WPBA e-package and Raj Kainth, Fellow in Medical Education, London Deanery School of Paediatrics.

This podcast will be of value to trainee and trainers.  Listen to find out how to be opportunistic in order to get the assessments done, tips to make mini-CEX manageable, how to put a learning slant on the assessments and ideas about making feedback meaningful. A section of Top Tips on how to get the best out of the assessments is posted separately.

Carrying on from “General paedatrics - what are the problems” this podcast features, Dr Lakshman Raman,  Dr Colin Powell and Dr Andy Raffles. They talk to Podcast Editor, Dr Ashley Reece, and provide some insights into meeting the problems set out in the previous podcast.

In the first part of a 2-part series of Podcasts about General Paediatrics, 3 General Paediatricians discussing its future.

Dr Lakshman Raman, General Paediatrician and Chair of the General Paediatrics’ Specialist Advisory Group of RCPCH; Dr Colin Powell, General Paediatrician and Chair of the British Association of General Paediatrics and Dr Andy Raffles, General Paediatrician and former London Deanery Regional Advisor

They discuss the issues with Podcast Editor, Dr Ashley Reece, who is also a General Paediatrician - What is General Paediatrics and how should General Paediatricians be trained? Why do Paediatric trainees feel they need a specialism? Why is General Paediatrics like General Practice? What are the challenges for the future of General Paediatrics. Listen to part 1 to find out more.

Our third podcast focuses on the recently published “When to suspect child maltreatment” guideline from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.

Dr Ashley Reece, a Consultant Paediatrician from Watford, UK, talks to Dr Danya Glaser, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK and Chair of the Guideline Development Group.

They discuss why NICE focused on this area for their latest guideline, the process of assimilating evidence to inform the guideline and how this guidance can be used by health care professionals.

See also:

http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG89.

We are pleased to bring you our second podcast. Dr Gale Pearson, Clinical Director of Child Health for CEMACH and Dr Martin Ward-Platt, a member of the Child Health Review Committee and ADC Deputy Editor, discuss the findings from the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health. Using a unique methodology, the intent of CEMACH is to uncover issues that contribute to the death of children – with the ultimate intent to improve the health of babies and children. In this wide ranging discussion, highlights from the recent CEMACH report are discussed.

Related link: http://www.cemach.org.uk/

We are delighted to offer you our first podcast. Harry Baumer, a consultant paediatrician from Plymouth, UK who writes about guidelines for ADC, and Ian Balfour-Lynn, a consultant in paediatric respiratory medicine at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London and an ADC associate editor, discuss the new asthma guidelines from both the British Thoracic Society and the National Institute of Health. In the podcast they discuss:

1. Use of inhaled cortical steroids (ICS) in infants
2. What are the side effects of ICS?
3. Are long-acting beta agonists safe in children?
4. What are the differences between the NIH and BTS recommendation regarding environmental approaches to asthma?

We have posted both a short (18 minutes) and long version (28 minutes) of their discussion. Please email us your thoughts about this podcast (howard.bauchner@bmc.org) and suggestions for future ones.

Professor Howard Bauchner
Editor

See also this related article http://ep.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/93/2/66