Training programme for senior registrars in community paediatrics.

Training programme for senior registrars in community paediatrics.

Consultant paediatricians with a special interest in community child health are being appointed in many parts of the United Kingdom but there are few training posts or programmes for this specialty. A training programme for senior registrars in the northern region that three doctors have completed and in which six doctors are currently engaged is presented.

Registrars' and senior registrars' perceptions of their audit activities.

OBJECTIVES To ascertain the level and quality of audit activity among junior doctors, their attitudes to audit, and their views on its educational value. DESIGN Postal questionnaire survey in April 1991. SETTING Yorkshire region. SUBJECTS All 610 registrars and senior registrars recorded as employed in the region. MAIN MEASURES Grade, current specialty, details of last audit participate...

Community paediatrics in crisis.

T o the armchair pundit, advertisements are always a useful antidote to the soporific parts of the scientific journal or television programme. Brief, dramatic, witty, or sentimental, they painlessly separate us from our hard earned cash. Advertising for new consultants is less sophisticated, subtle, or humorous, remaining largely reliant on ‘‘glorious countryside and local good schools’’ which ...

Senior house officer posts in community paediatrics--an introduction to child health.

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health programme for subspecialty training.

The National Grid is a training scheme that represents a unique partnership between Deaneries and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) in offering through national competition, equitable access to high quality subspecialty training. Paediatrics is unusual in that within the umbrella Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training in paediatrics there is the potential to tr...