About this event
- Date and time Wed 16 Apr 2025 from 8:55am to 5:00pm
- Location Online
- Organised by Paediatrics and Child Health, London School of Paediatrics
The purpose of this event is to expand trainees' knowledge within paediatric mental health. Through a carefully designed programme, participants will gain a deeper understanding of this critical area and gain practical skills to effectively address the challenges it presents.
Key Takeaways:
- Knowledge Expansion: Deepen understanding of paediatric mental health issues and their underlying causes.
- Skill Development: Cultivate the ability to identify, assess, and manage risks associated with paediatric mental health presentations.
- Crisis Management: Learn strategies to de-escalate challenging situations in a paediatric mental health context.
- Holistic Understanding: Explore the wider social and genetic determinants influencing mental health.
Who Should Attend?
This talk is particularly aimed at paediatricians, GPs, psychiatry trainees, students, newly qualified doctors, consultants, and allied health professionals with an interest in paediatric mental health.
This study day is held in conjunction with the London School of Paediatrics.
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Tickets
Standard pricing available until 15 April 2025.
Member
| RSM Trainee |
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| £35.00 |
Non - Member
| Trainee | London School of Paediatrics |
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| £55.00 | £45.00 |
Agenda
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Welcome talk and introduction
Speaker to be confirmed
Assessing psychiatric presentations as a generalist
Whittington Paediatric Mental Health Team (speaker to be confirmed)
Comfort break
Risk assessment and legislation
Speaker to be confirmed
De-escalation strategies
Whittington Paediatric Mental Health Team (speaker to be confirmed)
Comfort break
Social and genetic determinants of mental health
Speaker to be confirmed
Gender identity disorders
Speaker to be confirmed
Lunch
Medically unexplained symptoms
Dr Katie Malbon, Imperial College Healthcare Trust
Comfort break
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) - brief overview
Speaker to be confirmed
Eating disorders – brief recap/update
Royal Free Eating Disorders Team (speaker to be confirmed)
Comfort break
Tic disorders
Dr Claire Eccles, Consultant Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatrist and Dr Anthony Harrison, Senior Clinical Psychologist from the tic service at Great Ormond Street Hospital
Training opportunities and further development
Dr Camilo Stargardter, Specialty Trainees Year 7, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Thank you and closing talk
Speaker to be confirmed
End of day
Location
Online
Registration for this event will close on Wednesday 16 April March at 1:00am (GMT). Late registrations will not be accepted.
The agenda is subject to change at any time.
All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations.
We are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. This is at the presenter and the RSM’s discretion.