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Trainee Committee

Time slot
Tuesday 12 May 2026 - 13:45-16:00
Room
Hall 7A
Session type
Specialty group session

Programme

Join the RCPCH Trainees Committee for an interactive session focused on improving paediatric training. The session will explore the Training Charter, the 10-Point Plan, the NHS 10-Year Plan, assessment updates and trainee-led innovation abstracts.

The session will also include a careers and pathways breakout, giving trainees the opportunity to discuss different paediatric career routes, subspecialty training, academic and leadership pathways, portfolio development, and how to navigate training choices. Chaired by Dr Qasim Malik and Dr Josh Hodgson, with speakers including Dr Cathryn Chadwick, Dr Sarah Hallett and Dr Mayur Gami

The timings are:

13:45–13:50 | Introduction and welcome

13:50–14:00 | Training Charter and 10-Point Plan

14:00–14:10 | NHS 10-Year Plan

14:10–14:35 | Assessments in Paediatrics

14:35–15:23 | Oral abstract presentations

15:23–15:58 | Career breakout session

15:58–16:00 | Close and summary

Abstracts

  • 10179 - Ensuring Equitable Access to Sub-specialty Training: Lessons from Community Paediatrics
  • 10145 -  The Mersey Paediatric Trainee Committee: Empowering Trainees through Collaboration, Teamwork and Leadership
  • 10112 - Senior paediatricians’ views about trainee doctors with a diagnosis of developmental co-ordination disorder (DCD)
  • 9718 - RCPCH TREES: Lessons learnt from setting up a national research teaching series 
  • 9895 - Empowering and inspiring the next generation of paediatricians: lessons learnt from a trainee-developed regional induction for new paediatric doctors
  • 9985 - Excellence Exchanges, a London School of Paediatrics initiative to spread good training practices
     

Speakers

  • Dr Joshua Hodgson - Chair of the RCPCH Trainee Committee, RCPCH
  • Dr Qasim Malik - Paediatric Registrar, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and an Academic Clinical Fellow specialising in Artificial Intelligence
  • Dr Mayur Gami - Specialty Trainee, London
  • Dr Sarah Louise Hallett - Trainee Rep for Assessments, Nottingham
  • Dr Tega Edokpolor - Specialty Trainee, Medway Maritime Hospital
Education and paediatric training