Paediatrics
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Location(s): » York District Hospital
Consultant(s): » David Beverley » Robin Ball » Jo Mannion » Guy Millman » Dominic Smith » Robert Smith » Sally Smith » Barbara Stewart » Indie Thopte » Professor Bill McGuire
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The Paediatric department
The department manages 3500 emergency admissions, 400 SCBU admissions, 2000 GP referral patients and 8000 further outpatient reviews each year. The majority of the activity is general paediatric and neonatal medicine.
There are also specialist interest clinics under the following consultants:
- Dr David Beverley - General, Cystic fibrosis, Chronic fatigue, Metabolic
- Dr Robin Ball - General, Asthma, Immunisation, Child protection
- Dr Jo Mannion - General, Adolescence, Adolescent diabetes
- Dr Guy Millman - General, neonatal, renal, HYMS teaching
- Dr Dominic Smith - General, diabetes, rheumatology
- Dr Robert Smith - General, neurodevelopmental, epilepsy
- Dr Sally Smith - Neurodevelopment, Transition
- Dr Barbara Stewart - Neurodevelopment, Looked After Children, Adoption
- Dr Indie Thopte - General, psychological medicine, gastroenterology
- Professor Bill McGuire - Neonatology, evidence based medicine
The wider team includes 7 registrars at ST4-7 an associate specialist and a staff grade. There are specialist nurses in community child health, palliative care, school nursing, diabetes, asthma, epilepsy, enuresis and play therapy. There is a full team of developmental therapists in the Child development centre.
There is excellent support from wider hospital specialties including paediatric radiology, echocardiography, anaesthetics, surgery, neurophysiology and laboratory sciences.
Paediatric training at York Hospital should be an educational and enjoyable attachment. The aim is provide a wide variety of clinical problems that will increase the confidence of the trainee in seeing children with illness in his/her future career. Skills of examination, assessment, management and practical procedures will be acquired during the six month post.
Paediatric training aims to promote many wider professional skills including:
- Careful and thorough approach to work with good record keeping, time management, clear communications
- Understanding how illness presents differently at different ages, alters with growth and development
- Child and Family centred working
- Consider social and ethical issues
- Skills of communication, empathy, sensitivity, awareness of emotional issues
- Team working
- Happy with informality and humour to reduce anxiety for children
STRs duties are split between the care of newborn babies on the labour ward, SCBU, post natal ward and the care of infants and older children on children’s ward 17 and child assessment unit.
Timetable
Each day juniors and consultants meet at 9am in the seminar room for handover from the night on call team. Thisis to handover the patients and make sure results and management plans are understood. This is also an educational session to discuss new problems.
STRs then start either SCBU round, ward 17, postnatal ward, or CAU
Registrars and consultants will review all CAU patients. Ward patients are reviewed again at 4pm if necessary.
STRs should be able to join a number of subspecialist clinics as observers during the post
Handover to the on call team occurs at the end of each shift.
Formal teaching
A formal Induction programme is organised at the beginning of the post.
There is a programme of teaching sessions to cover the knowledge base of general paediatrics during the attachment.
All trainees have regular meetings with consultant supervisors for educational supervision and completion of training portfolio. Trainees participate in the department governance and audit programme.
Trainees are encouraged to attend GP training sessions and complete formal postgraduate examinations.
Educational sessions are scheduled as follows:
- Monday XRay department XRay meeting
- Tuesday SHO lunchtime teaching tutorial
- Thursday SHO lunchtime case presentation
- Friday department grand round and child psychiatry meeting
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Name: » Professor Bill McGuire
Professor Bill McGuire is an active member at this location.
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