General professional training in community child health.

General professional training in community child health.

A scheme providing general professional training for doctors in community child health is described. The scheme covers three years and gives broad clinical experience in general hospital paediatrics, community paediatrics, psychiatry, and general practice. The aims of the scheme and service needs and future structure for our trainees are discussed.

Community child health training.

his leading article aims to highlight the main training issues in community child health (CCH) and, in light of work done so far, discuss provision of appropriate numbers of well trained paediatricians to meet the needs of the nation's children. Community child health is a subspe-cialty of paediatric medicine that has undergone much change in structure and service provision in recent years, and...

A "general professional training" inquiry.

AN IMPORTANT recommendation of the Royal Commission on Medical Education was the institution of a 3-year period of general professional training to follow the pre-registration year. Such a scheme would have certain advantages and would follow the pattern of postgraduate education in some other countries. It would, however, pose considerable difficulties in terms of implementation, and it has me...

General practitioner training needs for child health surveillance.

A postal questionnaire was sent to 136 Hackney general practitioners inquiring about their plans for child health surveillance. A total of 112 responded and detailed their training needs, both practical and theoretical. Ninety one responders were providing or planning to provide surveillance. Responders were eager for further training particularly in premature baby follow up, mental handicap, s...

Research in community child health.