Paediatric Trainees annual meeting

Audience: rheumatology grid trainees, SPIN trainees, general paediatricians with an interest in rheumatology and new paediatric and adolescent rheumatology consultants.

Topics include an overview of many conditions presenting to rheumatology services including auto-inflammatory conditions, PIMS-TS and pain conditions and Behçets disease. This course provides the opportunity to meet multiple competences within the training curriculum.

Learning objectives

• To understand the aetiology, diagnosis and management of auto-inflammatory conditions including an overview of auto-inflammation and a focus on Behçets and chronic non-bacterial osteomyelitis

• To understand the benefit of a multi-specialty approach to management of Behçets and the role of the National Centre of Excellence for Behçets disease

• To learn an approach to assessment of scleroderma with a focus on skin scoring tools

• To gain an overview of active research studies in the UK and contribution to research priority-setting

• To gain an understanding of the multidisciplinary team approach to chronic pain and complex regional pain syndrome management

• To understand how to prepare for the last year of training, consultant application and interview and the first year as a new consultant