Please see the message below from the National Teddy Bear Hospital!! Hello! National Teddy Bear Hospital are so excited to announce our new series, TBH TEACH. From January -March Junior Doctors and Registrars will be covering your paediatric medical school curriculum twice a week. All sessions are free and will […]
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Thinking about a career in paediatrics? Want some advice from someone who has been through the process? Then sign up for the CUPS Buddy Scheme! This programme has been running for one year so far and helps connect medical students from the University of Cambridge interested in paediatrics with paediatricians […]
Professor Rachel Lennon is a Wellcome Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Science at the University of Manchester and an Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Nephrology at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. Her academic research focuses on understanding cell adhesion and the extracellular matrix in the glomerulus. Clinically she has a keen […]
EPISODE 2!!! 15 MINS WITH… A COMMUNITY PAEDIATRICIAN Dr May Yip is an ST6 looking to become a community paediatrician. This is a sub-specialty that has minimal exposure during med school so this is a really informative talk!!
EPISODE 1!!! 15 MINUTE WITH… A PAEDIATRIC ONCOLOGIST Dr Shivani Bailey is a paediatric oncology registrar working at Addenbrooke’s hospital, Cambridge. Having survived juggling a Ph.D. whilst parenting two small children, she has returned to clinical practice to complete her specialty training in paediatric oncology. She has also spent time […]
In November we joined up with The Medic Collective, a group of medical students at Cambridge inspiring school students to dive deeper into their passions for medicine alongside widening access, in their Article Of The Month competition. The theme was Paediatrics, and we are delighted to share this wonderful post […]
Summary: You are more or less in the shoes of a GP or another community practitioner A very complex case centered around one child (but there may be other children in the periphery!) with challenging biological, social, psychological and educational needs that are not being addressed Some ethical and legal […]
Taking a Paediatric History Speak to both parent/ carer and child. Adapt history according to age and needs of child. ICE throughout!!! Presenting Complaint Onset, duration, previous episodes, SOCRATES Has it affected the child/ family’s lifestyle What has the family done about it so far General Inquiry General health: how […]
PaedSoc Guide to the Paediatrics OSCE Summer 2019 Authors: Sajeed Ali, Alisha Burman, James Cullen, Amédine Duret, Ben Kilkelly, Tanya Li, Maria Seago, Adam Truelove, Jean Yang This guide is aimed to help give you a starting point for your revision for the Child Health OSCE. It has kindly been […]
Firstly, a MASSIVE THANK YOU to our 2020-21 committee!!! They have worked so incredibly hard to keep up our lectures, volunteering events and advocating through these unprecedented times. They even managed to make a Zoom conference go smoothly!!!! It has been an absolute pleasure working alongside such hardworking, hilarious and […]
WELCOME BACK FOR OUR NEXT CASE!! For those who joined us yesterday for our conference, we hope you had an awesome time – weren’t the speakers so inspirational?! Today, we have another case to help you get your thinking cap on – we hope you enjoy! THE CASE You are […]
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! LET’S CELEBRATE WITH THIS SUPER AWESOME CASE… You are on placement in Paediatric A&E and you meet Rebecca, a 7-year old only child from the Maldives, who has been brought in by her mother. Rebecca has been complaining of severe left leg pain, from her knee up […]
Yaaaay!!! It’s finally here!!! The announcement of our 2021 conference – Inequalities in Child Health!!! 2020 has been a crazy year that has highlighted the socioeconomic inequalities that exist in almost all aspects of physical and mental health. It seems particularly unfair on children, who have little or no control […]
Welcome To Our Christmas Case!!! Merry Christmas paeds family!!! We hope that you have a lovely time. To help build up that Christmas hype, have a go at our case below – Rudolf and Noel really need your awesome medicine knowledge – they may even put in a good word […]
INTRODUCTION Welcome to the case of the month series of our paedsoc blog! This will hopefully just provide some informal, chill revision and learning opportunities! We are going to keep our first case nice and simple just to introduce everyone to our cases – this one will be relevant for […]