Highlights from this issue

You might know that I’m a generalist, and a fairly noisy one at that. When asked what I specialise in, I reply ‘I specialise in not specialising’. Of course, on quite a few levels that’s absolute nonsense. After all, like most people reading this I’ve made a point in specialising in paediatrics and child health. And it is inevitable that I’ve actively forgotten many of the things that I’ve learnt over the years. Is active forgetting an important part of specialisation? I certainly feel the need to jettison some of the less actively useful information in my head to focus on some items which are more helpful for the task at hand. Arguably this is a generalist journal—although a generalist paediatric journal. I’d hope that there is a lot in here for folk who have decided to focus their interests—but that it will mostly include articles which, hopefully, are...
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Education and Practice - Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tags: Epistle Source Type: research