Online learning, webinars and educational podcasts for child health professionals

RCPCH Learning gives you access to quality-assured courses to support your professional development and clinical practice

We run short, free and accessible educational updates for health professionals on topics ranging from clinical conditions to service design

Listen to members and guests as they discuss a wide range of topics across paediatrics and child health

Lower respiratory tract infection is one of the commonest causes of paediatric hospital admission and ED attendance. The last few years have seen dramatic changes in circulating viral and bacterial respiratory pathogens as well as the publication of new evidence on antibiotic treatment of community-acquired lower respiratory tract infections. This webinar will review the data alongside the management of complex pneumonia. In addition, it will focus on pneumonia as a presenting feature of immunodeficiency or other chronic condition and how to identify these patients.

In this webinar, Dr Sanjay Patel highlights the risk that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses to nenonates and children and speaks about the role of antimicrobial stewardship in addressing this growing problem.

In this webinar, Professor Kate Tatton-Brown and Dr Eleanor Hay present the exciting new GeNotes online platform, which launches this May 2023. GeNotes is designed to support clinicians in gaining confidence and competence in genomic practice.

Health inequalities are the avoidable, unfair systematic differences in health outcomes between different groups of babies, children and young people. Our podcasts explore topics such as talking with families about poverty and conducting research and quality improvement projects. They complement our toolkit on the main RCPCH website.

Paediatric sepsis

Listen to real-world advice and guidance on how to manage paediatric sepsis.

Paediatric sepsis

How can we as paediatric health professionals support children and young people to swallow pills? In this series of educational podcasts, produced with Kidzmed, Dr Emma Lim chats with colleagues at the Great North Children's Hospital in Newcastle to explore what's gone well and what they can learn...

The aim of the course is to give you the knowledge and ideas to help you take good care of every baby you see, whether they are well and strong, or sick or very small. The emphasis is on simple measures which safeguard vulnerable babies and give them the best possible start, but later modules will take you into the more complex diagnoses and treatments undertaken in more advanced neonatal units.

This course is designed by surgeons, midwives and paediatricians and aims to help healthcare professionals in detecting anorectal malformations. The course goes through the normal anatomy of the perineum and the national screening framework. It explains the initial assessment of the newborn, how to inspect the perineum during the NIPE assessment and what to do if abnormalities are detected.

Non-clinical

Welcome to this online training which describes the key stages and considerations of carrying out a systematic review. It will give you an overview of conducting systematic reviews in any subject area, with specific reference to children and young people where appropriate.