TY - JOUR T1 - Fifteen-minute consultation on problems in the healthy paediatrician: managing the effects of shift work on your health JF - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition JO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2016-312119 SP - edpract-2016-312119 AU - Michael Farquhar Y1 - 2016/12/16 UR - http://ep.bmj.com/content/early/2016/12/16/archdischild-2016-312119.abstract N2 - Sleep is fundamental to good health. Healthcare professionals receive little teaching on the importance of sleep, particularly with respect to their own health when working night shifts. Knowledge of basic sleep physiology, together with simple strategies to improve core sleep and the ability to cope with working nights, can result in significant improvements both for healthcare professionals and for the patients they care for. “You're not healthy unless your sleep is healthy”Professor William Dement, Stanford University, one of the founders of modern sleep medicine ER -