Adc Podcast

Archimedes editor Dr Bob Phillips discusses March’s Archimedes questions, including what are the options for treating latent TB infection in children [http://bit.ly/145Ew3u], and can a conservative approach to the treatment of hypertrophic pyloric stenosis with atropine be considered a real alternative to surgical pyloromyotomy [http://bit.ly/13YmaVL]?

In this podcast, Mark Beattie discusses the editor’s highlights from the May edition of ADC. For all the papers discussed, see this month’s edition of the journal adc.bmj.com/content/98/5.toc

We are delighted to offer you our first podcast. Harry Baumer, a consultant paediatrician from Plymouth, UK who writes about guidelines for ADC, and Ian Balfour-Lynn, a consultant in paediatric respiratory medicine at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London and an ADC associate editor, discuss the new asthma guidelines from both the British Thoracic Society and the National Institute of Health. In the podcast they discuss: Use of inhaled cortical steroids (ICS) in infants What are the side effects of ICS? Are long-acting beta agonists safe in children? What are the differences between the NIH and BTS recommendation regarding environmental approaches to asthma? We have posted both a short (18 minutes) and long version (28 minutes) of their discussion. Please email us your thoughts about this podcast (howard.bauchner@bmc.org) and suggestions for future ones. Professor Howard Bauchner Editor See also this related article http://ep.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/93/2/66

In the first part of a 2-part series of Podcasts about General Paediatrics, 3 General Paediatricians discussing its future. Dr Lakshman Raman, General Paediatrician and Chair of the General Paediatrics’ Specialist Advisory Group of RCPCH; Dr Colin Powell, General Paediatrician and Chair of the British Association of General Paediatrics and Dr Andy Raffles, General Paediatrician and former London Deanery Regional Advisor They discuss the issues with Podcast Editor, Dr Ashley Reece, who is also a General Paediatrician - What is General Paediatrics and how should General Paediatricians be trained? Why do Paediatric trainees feel they need a specialism? Why is General Paediatrics like General Practice? What are the challenges for the future of General Paediatrics. Listen to part 1 to find out more.

Carrying on from “General paedatrics - what are the problems” this podcast features, Dr Lakshman Raman, Dr Colin Powell and Dr Andy Raffles. They talk to Podcast Editor, Dr Ashley Reece, and provide some insights into meeting the problems set out in the previous podcast.

This latest ADC podcast is hosted by Becky Hodgkinson, Paediatric Specialist Registrar and Chair of the London Deanery School of Paediatrics’ Trainees’ Committee. She talks with fellow trainees’ committee representatives, Chloe Macaulay, Medical Teaching Fellow and Paediatric Specialist Registrar, Ronny Cheung, Previous Fellow in Medical Education who has developed a WPBA e-package and Raj Kainth, Fellow in Medical Education, London Deanery School of Paediatrics. This podcast will be of value to trainee and trainers. Listen to find out how to be opportunistic in order to get the assessments done, tips to make mini-CEX manageable, how to put a learning slant on the assessments and ideas about making feedback meaningful. A section of Top Tips on how to get the best out of the assessments is posted separately.

Following on from the previous podcast, here are the team’s top tips for making the most of your workplace based assessment.

In this podcast Bob Phillips, the editor of the Archimedes section of Archives, explains what Archimedes is, introduces the concept of evidence based medicine, and tells you how you can contribute.

Archimedes editor Dr Bob Phillips discussed September’s Archimedes questions which include whether to ultrasound when a newborn is found to have preauricular skin tag or sinus, whether to prescribe methyphenidate for cancer treatment related fatigue and the use of nasal sumatriptan for migraine.

Archimedes editor Dr Bob Phillips discusses March’s Archimedes questions, which include if atropine is an effective therapy for pyloric stenosis, and how long to treat patients with latent TB, and with what?

In this podcast, Mark Beattie discusses the editor’s highlights from the April edition of ADC. For all the papers discussed, see this month’s edition of the journal http://adc.bmj.com/content/98/4.toc.

Welcome to this first in a new series of ADC podcasts, where editor Mark Beattie takes you through the highlights from the latest issue. This edition covers the March journal, for all the papers discussed see adc.bmj.com.