What do you want to write? I ended the last blog post with the thought that you might write about things that irritate you, or that interest you. […]
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#ADC_JC: We’re Top 5 Material
Shameless, we are. The now world-famous #ADC_JC – an online, Twitter-based, synchronous journal club addressing top articles of relevance to paediatrics & child health, has been Officially Recognised as in the Top 5 of such journal clubs. (Thanks @DrHillyHazel for pointing us to this.) In this article, a systematic approach to the Twitter stats of such […]
Basics: Are you worrying about stuff?
I spend quite a lot of time fairly unsure that I really know enough about the stuff I should know about. Sometimes I think we could benefit from reflecting on this a bit: Are there known uncertainties – things which we have a good estimate, based on good research, but gives us an answer which isn’t […]
@PEdSIG #RCPCH15 – “Learning on the Job”
Q: What do you get when you take 50+ paediatric trainees/trainers/medical students, 7 fantastic facilitators, 3 challenges and 6 flipcharts? A: Many solutions and a roomful of conversation… (oh, and not much space left on the flipcharts!) PEdSIG was delighted to welcome a roomful of enthusiastic delegates to the symposium “Learning on the Job: Are […]
Practical Authorship: So you want to write
This is a another part of the series about writing. This one is from @Ian_Wac ogne, Editor of the wonderful green Education and Practice edition. It’s part of a resource which will grow, over the weeks and months for people to access if they’re thinking about writing. This post – as others may be – is […]
Mentoring And Quality Improvement Strengthen Integrated Management Of Common Childhood Illness In Rural Rwanda
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (ICMI) is the leading protocol designed to decrease under 5 mortality globally (WHO) – although its potential impact is threatened by quality of care. Magge and colleagues report the outcome of a nurse mentorship programme— Mentorship and Enhanced supervision at Health Centres (MESH) in two rural districts (21 rural health […]
Practical Authorship: Tools
Welcome to a new series. We’d love to have contributors, ideas and comments. The aim of this group of blogs are to address the question How do you write, particularly a paper for a clinical, academic audience? And we’ll start, not at the very beginning, because although it is a very good place to start, it […]
Critical interventions
There are considerable numbers of interventions which are undertaken at points of emergency; severe head injury, severe septic shock, myocardial infarction, admissions to intensive care units… In these situations it can be extremely tricky to get the critically ill, often unconscious, individual to agree to being randomised in a clinical trial. Yet without that, we won’t […]
Parents on NICU rounds
Does your neonatal unit have parents present when you’re doing medical rounds? Would that be a good thing? (Or if you already do it, is that a bad, limiting thing?) Could the presence of parents inhibit honest medical discussion? Could it compromise confidentiality? May the opportunities for bedside teaching be severely reduced? Could the stress of […]
Basics: Rapid Reviews
Systematic reviews in health care aim to answer a specific, highly structured, clinical question by extensive searching, careful sifting and appraisal of the studies, a considered synthesis and well tempered conclusions. They can take very many months – 18 or more – to complete. Where we undertake and use systematic reviews to provide the very best estimates […]