Pediatricians
After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy - George Clooney
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The Pediatrician’s Most Awkward Task
When Carrie Quinn was training to be a pediatrician, she dutifully memorized the list of symptoms for meningitis. She learned the right antibiotics for pneumonia. But when she got into the clinic, she found herself unprepared for what really concerned parents.
“What I was actually faced with wasn’t seriously sick children,” Quinn, who’s now the executive director of the Mount Sinai Parenting Center, said on a panel at Aspen Ideas: Health, which is co-hosted by the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic. More often, it was parents anxious over what to do about their kids’ behavior issues or language delays.
Ben Danielson, another panelist and the medical director of the…
Resources
Don't Forget The Bubbles
DFTB is a Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAM) resource for paediatrics; it's a practical, high-quality paediatric educational resource. DFTB does this through collaboration – getting more people involved in creating online content and FOAM, for junior doctors, trainees and Paediatricians.
What’s Scaring the Pediatricians
Children are not the focus of the pandemic. But pediatricians are worried for children and families, for now and for the future.
ALTE to BRUE: Changes in categorizing frightening spells in infants
ALTE events are not only terrifying to parents; physicians are also worried and uncertain about what to do. I know — I’ve cared for many infants over the years who fit this description.
Pediatricians seeing a growing demand for medical cannabis for kids
Most Canadian pediatricians are shying away from medical cannabis for patients, knowing that it can hurt the developing brain and that there isn’t much research to guide them. But physicians say they are getting increasing requests for cannabis from parents, for a growing list of conditions.
What we know about the new Covid-19-linked illness in children
A rare, Kawasaki-like disease is striking kids who have coronavirus antibodies.
Why a Pediatric Group Is Pushing to Reopen Schools This Fall
Guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics encourage “having students physically present in school.” Dr. Sean O’Leary, an author of that advice, explains why.
Can't Part With the Pediatrician
Every kid outgrows the pediatrician at some point—but when that point comes can vary. Some can't wait to escape the Highlights magazines and Barbie Band-Aids. Others never want to leave—finding it just as awkward to be the youngest patient in a grown-up internist's waiting room by four or five decades.
Pediatrician Bob Sears Punished For Questionable Vaccine Exemption
ith the help of his book’s popularity and his family name, Sears has used his platform at meetings and on social media to promote vaccination practices that go against the evidence-based recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Why this pediatrician quit medicine
There are an awful lot of reasons that led up to my eventual resignation from a career in primary care medicine. I don’t know that any one of them is more important than the other (it really just depends on which day you ask me).
The Pediatrician’s Most Awkward Task
Can doctors teach people how to parent?
Contemporary Pediatrics
Contemporary Pediatrics offers pediatric health providers continuing education on the prevention, diagnosis, and management of illness and behavior problems in infants, children, and adolescents through review articles that address practical clinical concerns. One article each month carries CME credit.
GeneralPediatrics.com
The goal of GeneralPediatrics.com is to provide a starting point for entry into General Pediatrics places of enlightenment and education on the Internet. GeneralPediatrics.com identifies high quality General Pediatrics World-Wide Web sites that can teach, illuminate, and inspire.
Paediatric Emergency Medicine
I struggled to find PEM resources for my CT3 year, despite the variety of excellent resources out there. I hope this website will help point you in the right direction. I'm not a PEM expert, but am following the guidance CEM have issued (in the form of a syllabus) to put together this page.
Pedi QuikCalc
Pedi QuikCalc is the fastest, most up-to-date medical calculator for pediatrics, giving you instant access to weight-based drug dosing, IV fluid rates, and weight conversions. Pedi QuikCalc contains only the information you actually need every day, so you can find it fast. I can’t tell you the last time I needed to calculate the A-a gradient!
Pediatric EM Morsels
The goal of these Pediatric EM Morsels is to continue to encourage us all to enhance and refine our understanding of pediatric emergency medicine and to augment the care of pediatric patients. The care of pediatric patients often brings up a myriad of diverse topics ranging from the common to the very unusual.
Pediatric Emergency Playbook
My name is Tim Horeczko, and it is my mission to demystify the emergency care of infants and children for my brothers and sisters in the trenches. You have it within you to take excellent care of acutely ill and injured children. I’m here to share tricks, tips, and lessons learned.
PediatricEducation.org
PediatricEducation.org is a Pediatric Digital Library and Learning Collaboratory intended to serve as a source of continuing pediatric education.
PediatricRadiology.com
The goal of PediatricRadiology.com is to provide a starting point for entry into pediatric radiology places of enlightenment, entertainment and education on the Internet. PediatricRadiology.com identifies high quality pediatric radiology World-Wide Web sites that can teach, illuminate, and inspire.
PedsCases
PedsCases was developed to fill this gap and consists of interactive cases, podcasts, videos and links to supplement undergraduate learning. PedsCases allows students to experience core virtual cases not seen in their clerkship experience. The goal is that PedsCases will deliberately generate content in a variety of formats including virtual patients, to ensure core pediatric knowledge is translated to undergraduate learners in a comprehensive manner.
PedsCCM.org
PedsCCM is a collaborative, independent, information resource and communication tool for professionals caring for critically ill and injured infants and children.
TeachMePaediatrics
TeachMePaeds is a comprehensive encyclopaedia on paediatrics and neonatology, presented in a visually appealing and easy-to-read format. Created by a team of paediatricians, each article provides structured paediatric knowledge on the topic at hand, while applying this to real case scenarios, seamlessly bridging the gap between scholarly learning and improved patient care.
The Laura P. and Leland K. Whittier Virtual PICU
Our mission is to create a common information space for the international community of care givers providing critical care for children. Every critically ill child will have access to the Virtual PICU which will provide the essential information required to optimize their outcome.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
In pursuit of its broad mission, the NICHD conducts and supports laboratory research, clinical trials, and epidemiological studies that explore health processes; examines the impact of disabilities, diseases, and variations on the lives of individuals; and sponsors training programs for scientists, health care providers, and researchers to ensure that NICHD research can continue.
Frontiers in Pediatrics
Frontiers in Pediatrics publishes rigorously peer-reviewed research broadly across the field, from basic to clinical research that meet ongoing challenges in pediatric patient care and child health.
OnLine Pediatric Surgery Handbook
Information to help medical students and surgery residents learn basic principles of pediatric surgery.
Pediatric Surgery Update
Periodical Electronic Newsletter of Interest to Primary Physicians, Pediatricians, Surgeons, Residents, Medical Students, Nurses, and Health-related professionals dealing with evidence-based medicine and reviews in the practice of Pediatric Surgery.
PICUinfo
Pediatric critical care library and resources.
DoctorsLounge
Doctors Lounge is one of the most popular online medical resources for physicians, students and allied clinical professionals. It provides clinical information on pediatrics through multimedia tutorials and other study aids.
Healio
Infectious Diseases in Children strives to be the global, definitive information source for pediatric professionals by delivering timely, accurate, authoritative and balanced reports.
Journal Watch
Our mission is to help clinicians efficiently understand medical developments to improve patient care and foster professional development. NEJM Journal Watch equips today's caregivers with the information and perspective needed to be clinically prepared and practice with confidence.
MDedge
Pediatric News is the leading independent newspaper for the practicing pediatrician. Readers rely on Pediatric News for breaking news and insightful commentary–in a clear, concise, accessible format–that can be used daily in practice.
MDLinx
MDLinx Pediatrics is a premier service, complimentary for healthcare professionals, that sorts, ranks and summarizes the literature that’s relevant to your specialty and subspecialty. From adolescent medicine to radiology, neonatology, pediatric surgery, to General Pediatric News, we have the coverage you need to stay on top of the ever-changing practice of pediatric medicine.
MedPage Today
Pediatrics Information Center from MedPage Today is the only service for physicians that provides a clinical perspective on the breaking medical news that their patients are reading.
Medscape
Extensive section on pediatrics.
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