The Annual Paediatric Professional Development
Program (PDP)
Friday 7 October & Friday 14 October (9am-12:30pm)
The 27th Annual Professional Development Program for Community Paediatricians from The Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.
The 2022 PDP will consist of four sessions over two half days via Zoom Webinar. Sessions will
provide practical information about developmental-behavioural paediatrics from
expert colleagues.
Session 1: Friday 7 October, 9am-10:30am
Caring for socially and developmentally vulnerable children in partnership with schools
Associate Professor Jill Sewell, Senior Developmental-Behavioural Paediatrician, Centre for Community Child Health RCH
Rebecca Harris, Co-ordinator of Student and Family Wellbeing at Carlton Primary School (Victoria)
Session 2: Friday 7 October,
10:45am-12:30pm
Children in out-of-home care: the role
of the community paediatrician
Dr Karen McLean, Developmental-Behavioural
Paediatrician, Centre for Community Child Health RCH, and Research Officer,
Policy & Equity, MCRI
Session 3: Friday 14 October,
9am-10:30am
High level psychotropic prescribing - pearls of wisdom
Dr Rick Jarman, Developmental-Behavioural Paediatrician, Centre for Community Child Health RCH and Melbourne Developmental & Behavioural Paediatrics.
Session 4: Friday 14 October,
10:45am-12:30pm
Assessing and managing sleep
disorders in children with daytime sleepiness and mental health concerns
Dr Kate Simpson, Paediatrician and Sleep
Physician Centre for Community Child Health RCH
Registration Details
To register, please go to Eventbrite
here Please click on either date, you will
then be given the option to select tickets for both days ($165) or a single day
($100).
Sessions will be recorded, and available
for those who have registered and unable to attend ‘live’.
Note: if you are a paediatric trainee
please contact melissa.hirst@rch.org.au to obtain a 50% discount code to be
used at checkout.