Searching for the true attrition rate of UK paediatric trainees.

Objective: To quantitatively analyse the number of doctors leaving the paediatric specialty training (ST) programme in the UK, to assist with evidence-based workforce planning.

Design: Data were sought on those leaving the UK paediatrics training programme between 2014 and 2019 from Heads of Schools of Paediatrics and Freedom of Information Act requests.

Setting: Retrospective data analysis.

Completion of paediatric training: trends across 2011-2017 cohorts.

Objective: To determine trends in the demographics and destinations of doctors who have recently completed paediatric training in the UK.

Design: A survey was sent to all new paediatric certificate holders 1 year on from completing specialty training every year from 2011 to 2017.

Setting: Retrospective survey.

Maximum likelihood conjoint measurement of lightness and chroma.

Color varies along dimensions of lightness, hue, and chroma. We used maximum likelihood conjoint measurement to investigate how lightness and chroma influence color judgments. Observers judged lightness and chroma of stimuli that varied in both dimensions in a paired-comparison task.

Fecal calprotectin: a selection tool for small bowel capsule endoscopy in suspected IBD with prior negative bi-directional endoscopy.

Background And Aim: Fecal calprotectin (FC) is a non-invasive marker of gastrointestinal inflammation with advocated diagnostic precision in distinguishing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) from non-IBD diagnoses. FC correlates with abnormalities seen on small bowel barium radiology, but little data exist in relation with small bowel capsule endoscopy (SBCE). To investigate the value of FC as a selection tool for further investigation of the small bowel with SBCE, in a cohort of patients who had negative bi-directional endoscopies, but with continuing clinical suspicion of Crohn's disease (CD).