Eiman Haj-Ahmed

Paediatric registrar with four years experience in NHS. MRCPCH full membership. 

I am a Fascinated paediatric registrar. I have up-to-date life support courses, NLS and EPALS. Confident with basic paediatric and NICU  procedures. I have a level 3 Safeguarding Children course and am fully aware of recognition and escalation policies of Safeguarding and CP medical and writing reports. 

I have worked overseas and in the UK for the last four years and am in paediatric training. Throughout my career, I have developed skills in managing sick children. I worked in the NICU. This experience has helped my communication skills with parents, updating them and having a transparent and honest approach, being sensitive within the professional boundaries to break bad news and being aware of surrounding resources to support the families.  

I worked in a tertiary hospital in the UK, which gave me the experience of the flavour of a busy department, dealing with sick and complex children working with a comprehensive team; this has boosted my skills in working within a team and being part of MDT. Moreover, we liaise with different teams to ensure the optimum level of care provided to the patients we are looking after. I led many general paediatric clinics, which boosted my time management skills, prioritising my tasks following up on the results, then updating parents, and, more importantly, writing clinic letters. 

I was a lead for the local paediatric trainee committee. I was the coordinator for the on-call rota during COVID time, and this experience has boosted my skills in management and improved the service and look after staff wellbeing. I was an organiser for the journal club in my department. 

Teaching: I contributed and presented in department and regional teaching activities and presented about hyperinsulinism in newborns in our monthly deanery teaching activities. I  Presented multiple times in M&M. 

QIP/audit: 

I had completed three audit cycles. I completed an audit about DKA management and changed the practice by enhancing awareness of doing regular BP on children under 2 years old who are at risk of cerebral oedema. Moreover, I created a newly diagnosed type 1 investigation pack on an electronic system to make it easy for everyone to request and to minimise the number of missing investigations. 

I was a regional lead for a national audit ( weight to go ), which recommended every child, especially those with learning disabilities, need their weight to check on clinic visits to ensure they recover the optimum dose of medications and achieve optimum level growth. 

I completed the audit cycle for pneumonia investigations, and this led to a minimising the number of unnecessary CXRs requested to diagnose chest infection minimising the use of intravenous antibiotics to treat the chest infection and sticking to the first-line oral antibiotic unless the clinical condition changed. 

Endocrine Diploma from South Wales university.

RCPCH full membership holder.