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LEADING ARTICLE
Training
Community child health training
Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill NHS Trust, Yorkhill, Glasgow, UK
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr L M Ross, Department of Community Child Health, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill NHS Trust, Yorkhill, Glasgow G3 8SJ, UK;
linda.ross@yorkhill.scot.nhs.uk
Lessons required not just for the trainees
Keywords: community child health; training
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This leading article aims to highlight the main training issues in community child health (CCH) and, in light of work done so far, discuss provision of appropriate numbers of well trained paediatricians to meet the needs of the nation’s children.
Community child health is a subspecialty of paediatric medicine that has undergone much change in structure and service provision in recent years, and this is likely to continue in the future.1–3 Given that a large proportion of advertised consultant posts are in community child health, numbers of specialist registrar (SpR) training rotations should reflect this. This appears not to be the case however, although the actual number of specialist registrars seeking or undertaking subspecialty training in community child health is unknown. Similarly, there is little information available as to what training is actually being provided in this subspecialty, both in terms of quality and quantity.
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