Training for Paediatricians and Paediatric Students

Decision-making processes in paediatrics constitute a big challenge for paediatricians and health care professionals involved in paediatrics care. Teamwork communication represents a relevant aspect of the quality of care and is an essential to improve patients and families satisfaction during the stay in the paediatric ward. In order to face the complexity of children’s care, peers communication can strength therapeutic strategies and improve the response to patient health care needs. Paediatrics teamwork is frequently constituted by several specialized physicians with a diversity of clinical competences and a plurality of priorities, for that reason therapeutic short terms goals became frequently a source of conflict. This circumstance requires specific soft-skills to improve communication and implement a patient-centred care model. The role of family in the paediatrics doctor-patient relationship can be a factor of distress for clinicians involved in the patient care, and frequently is a reason of conflicts for the pressures and the responsibilities to carry with vulnerable patients. Work overload and care pressures are stressors affecting the environment of paediatrics units and have significant impact in the health care professionals health. Medical errors in such a circumstance can be a common phenomenon in the paediatricians daily work life and can constitute a potential obstacle to assure the standard quality of care required by patients and families.