Training and Taster Days

If you’re interested in attending, or hosting, Training Days or Taster Days, please contact the trainee reps.

Every year, the national PEM trainees conference aims to bring together trainees from both RCPCH and RCEM for a day of learning and networking.

Regional PEM training days run aiming to cover relevant topics from the curriculum and the paediatric emergency medicine curriculum.

If you're interested in finding out more about PEM as a subspecialty why not organise a taster day and spend some time on the shop floor.

To develop an insight into the work of the specialty
Promote careers reflection
Opportunity to find out what is needed to succeed, progress or enjoy this specialty in terms of skills, attributes and behaviour

Time with senior clinician(s) in the specialty, observing work, discussing careers pathways, future opportunities and work life balance issues.
Time with current trainees (of various grades) in the specialty, observing work, discussing what life is like as a trainee in the specialty, work life balance, how their careers choices were made, current and future shift patterns, exams, curricula and entry to specialty.
Time with key workers who support the specialty such as Emergency Nurse Practitioners
Opportunity to participate in hands on activities under direct supervision
Learning about triage, patient flow and departmental performance
Observe resuscitation of trauma patients and learn about how trauma centres work
Attend departmental teaching, radiology meetings, safeguarding meetings, simulation sessions

Taster Days should be taken during study leave with local agreement or in your own time which would be a good example of your commitment to the specialty if and when you decide to apply!
Include some out-of-hours time to ensure you get a true experience of what life in Paediatric ED is really like.
For more information on arranging your taster days contact any of the following people: