Dear Colleagues, Friends,
 
Due to many requests taking in consideration busy schedules and possible holiday activities we realize that you may not have been aware or had a chance to consider our invitation for you to attend and participate in the INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY IN CHILDREN which takes place September 11-12, 2008 at the Hilton in Rotterdam - The Netherlands.
 
 
In lieu of this fact we think it appropriate to extend the deadline for the early bird registration fee to the 31st of August. 
 
Please take a moment to visit the Congress website www.endosurgchildren.com to view the high level of presentations worthy of your attendance.
 
If you have not registered yet, follow this link to our registration page http://www.endosurgchildren.com/?q=node/16
  
For further information or other assistance, please contact the congress secretariat at the address below.
 
Thank you very much and I am personally looking forward to greet you in Rotterdam!

 
With kind regards,
 
Prof. Klaas Bax
Congress President
Professor of Pediatric Surgery                         
Erasmus MC - Sophia Children’s Hospital 
Rotterdam
The Netherlands
 
Congress Secretariat:
ESC
P.O. Box 335
5500 AH Veldhoven
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 40 2350594
Fax: +31 40 2523102
e-mail: info@esc-societycongress.com

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A nationally standardised, interactive one-day course Recognition & Response in Child Protection has been developed by Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health (RCPCH), National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) and the Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG).

Who can apply?

The course has been developed for doctors in training mainly in paediatrics and accident & emergency, although doctors in training working in general practice and other specialty areas may find aspects of the course relevant. It may be possible for other groups to access the course, if you are unsure about your eligibility, please contact ALSG (cpcourses@alsg.org).

What does it contain?

A series of lectures and small group workshops, discussions and role plays cover the following areas:
> Introduction
> Background
> How do you feel?
> Recognising Child Abuse and Neglect
> Introduction: What do you do including Communication
> Role Plays: What do you do including Communication
> Working Together with other professionals and parents
> Outcomes
> What did you learn today and where do you go from here?

When/where will the course take place?

Monday 17th November 2008 at the UBHT Education Centre, Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol BS2 8AE

How much is it?

£100 per person - including all course material and day-time catering

What course materials will I receive?

> An interactive DVD-ROM developed specifically for this package
> Child Protection Companion – a book developed by RCPCH for all paediatricians
> Child Protection Reader – a book written specifically for this package

How can I apply?

Please reserve a place first by contacting Jodie Lovell on Tel 0117 342 0056 or e-mail: jodie.lovell@ubht.nhs.uk and complete the application form below...

Packs have to be pre-ordered two months prior to course date so the Closing Date for completed application form & payment is Monday 15th September 2008.

This year’s BAPS congress was the second time the congress included a trainee session. This was held on the Wednesday morning and started with a free papers session with nine trainees presenting. The subjects were varied and the talks all well presented and judged for the award of the Trainee Prize.

These were followed by a brief trainee meeting at which the main topic was the current number of trainees and future consultant employment prospects. Unfortunately the recent large expansion in trainee numbers has led to greater uncertainty about long term job prospects post-CCT. The trainee representatives continue to raise these concerns at BAPS executive and SAC level.

The second half of the session was a seminar presented by Ed Holyoake of Covidien on the use of electrosurgery. This was an excellent and interesting session and we are grateful to Azad Najmaldin for his help in the organisation of the session.

That evening consisted of the trainee dinner sponsored by BAPS at which David Keene of Manchester was presented with Spitz and Coran’s Operative Paediatric Surgery as the winner of the trainee prize for his talk on the effectiveness of Broviac line dressings. We are grateful to Rick Turnock for his support of the session, including chairing the judging panel and his after-dinner speech, and to the other judges Tomas Westin of Stockholm and Paul Johnson of Oxford.

We are continuing to consider how we can continue to raise the profile of both the trainee session and the trainee dinner as part of the congress. This has received a significant boost in Paul Johnson negotiating on our behalf that the Trainee Prize winner be invited to submit a manuscript to the Congress edition of the JPS. Other suggestions have been to make the dinner open to all trainees but have an invitation only arrangement for consultants so they can be recognised for their contribution to training in the preceding year. Any other suggestions would be gratefully received.

Iain Yardley & Clare Rees.

This NEW course is an evolution of the old course originally convened by BAPS and aims to stimulate paediatric surgeons to think!!
 
You will be challenged with questions about the basic sciences relevant to paediatric surgery; you will be given pre-course exercises and problems to solve. The course is not aimed to be a clinical course but the relevance underpins what happens in the clinical environment.
 
This course is designed for Paediatric Surgery Trainees ST 5-8, Consultants and International Specialist Trainees.
 
1-3 Dec 2008
Fee: £595
 
Convenor
Mr Tony Lander
Consultant Paediatric Surgeon
Diana Princess of Wales Children Hospital, Birmingham
Tutor in Paediatric Surgery, The Royal College of Surgeons of England
 
Mr Edwin Jesudason
Consultant Paediatric Surgeon
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool
 
Course Programme
The basic sciences of the following areas are illustrative of the nature of the course:
 
• Respiratory physiology and ventilation.
• Basic science of pain and analgesia. How do anaesthetics work?
• Relevant Pharmacodynamics and kinetics. How does chemotherapy work or radiation treatment?
• Basic science of digestion, special feeds, the management of intestinal failure.
• Gastrointestinal motility.
• Statistics (p value, confidence intervals, standard errors, t test, basic non-parametric tests and contingency tables, growth charts and z scores, NNT).
• Critical reading exercises.
• Genetics.
• Sexual differentiation and intersex biology.
• How do CT, PET and MRI scanners work? What are weighted images etc?
• Relevant nuclear medicine and radioisotopes.
• Common cardiac anomalies and their pressures and gasses etc.
• Acid base and fluid balance.
• Systematic reviews and literature  searches
 
Format
• Lecture
• Interactive discussion
• Pre-course exercises
• Problem based learning
 
Venue
This course will be held at:
The Conference Centre at Lace
Croxteth Drive
Sefton Park
Liverpool
L17 1AA
 
For more information please contact:
T: 020 7869 6340 F: 020 7869 6329 E: paediatric@rcseng.ac.uk

Download the recent Elogbook report.

Junior doctors working in local hospitals are missing out on training in paediatric surgery because too many cases are being sent to specialist centres.

Paediatric Surgery Fellow position in Perth, Australia from July 2008 to July 2009. Anyone interested is welcome to get in touch with Mr.Samnakay - Consultant Paediatric Surgeon.

Download the Trainee Rep's report

Download the Trainee Rep's report

The National Training Day for SpRs and StRs will be held at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on the 26th and 27th June 2008. Download the agenda for the programme.

Abstracts should be submitted using the attached form to adminsec@baps.org.uk no later than 25th April. Successful presenters will be notified toward the end of May.
Please include the following details in your email:
• Title
• Authors
• Institution
• Contact details of presenting author
• Contact details of senior author (if different)
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Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. Australia
Read more about it and how to apply in the OOPE section.

1. Trainee Report - Download

2. Commisioning safe & sustainable paediatric services - Download

3. BAPS Exec report - Download

4. ASiT report - Download

The Secretary of State for Health's response to Aspiring to Excellence: Final report of the Independent Inquiry into Modernising Medical Careers- Feb 2008

8th to 11th July 2008. Download registration forms from here.
For further information please contact:
Mr Azad Najmaldin
Consultant Paediatric Surgeon
St James's University Hospital
Leeds LS9 7TF

Tel: 0113 2064014
E-mail: parmjit.jajuha@leedsth.nhs.uk