TY - JOUR T1 - Highlights from this issue JF - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition JO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed SP - 225 LP - 225 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2019-318181 VL - 104 IS - 5 AU - Ian D Wacogne Y1 - 2019/10/01 UR - http://ep.bmj.com/content/104/5/225.abstract N2 - Our learning is a combination of just in time and just in case. Most of us do both, but the emphasis definitely changes with our stage of our career, and the demands placed on us. As early learners we spend a lot of time thinking about just in case—we cram lots of extra knowledge into our heads. Many exams are based on this basic knowledge. As later learners we return to that knowledge—usually in a hurry, often as a refresher in need of a rapid update. As an example, I’ve never seen a child with epiglottitis—one of the many benefits of immunisation we’ve somehow failed to keep the wider public convinced about. I have spent a lot of time learning about it, and thinking about it. And in an emergency I think I’d know much of what to do. But I’d also want to … ER -