Working in partnership with patients and their families
BMJ 2018; 360 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/sbmj.j5301 (Published 17 January 2018) Cite this as: BMJ 2018;360:j5301
- Matthew Billingsley, editor, Student BMJ
Biography
Neena Modi is professor of neonatal medicine at Imperial College London and president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH). She qualified from the University of Edinburgh and trained in neonatal medicine at University College London and Liverpool Women’s Hospital. She was president of the Neonatal Society (2012-15) and president of the Academic Paediatrics Association of Great Britain and Ireland (2014-15). She served as chair of the BMJ Ethics Committee between 2010 and 2015.
The RCPCH recently launched #paedsrocks on Twitter listing 40 reasons why students should pick paediatrics. What are your top three reasons?
There’s nothing quite so rewarding as seeing a sick child get better—it’s the most fantastic thing to see and the joy it brings never wears off.
In paediatrics we treat patients in a holistic way and don’t see patients as a bundle of individual widgets. To achieve this, we …
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