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| Pim Taleongpong |
Pim is a second year medical student who worked with Miss Lauren Powell to produce a review about the use of apps with children and young people with ADHD. This is how she found her experience:
I was placed
within the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) for six weeks and worked on a project titled “Children and young
people with ADHD – is there an app for that?”. During this time, I performed a
scoping review to find out if there is evidence to suggest that apps can be beneficial in the management of
paediatric ADHD. We have found that there are many apps for children and young people
with ADHD most of which serve as a tool to help children with self-monitoring,
time management, task scheduling and cognitive training. There are also apps
that are designed for clinicians to help with decision making and treatment planning
for patients with ADHD. These apps have great potential to improve ADHD management in children
and young people
As a medical student,
this was both an educational and eye opening experience for me as I began with
very little knowledge about scoping reviews and also ADHD. Over the past six
weeks I have had the chance to develop my critical appraisal skills and learnt
new techniques to perform enhanced literature searches. It has been amazing to
see how rapidly technology is changing medicine in the 21st century,
this has reinforced to me how important it is to be aware of new and
unconventional treatments. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at ScHARR and
believe that the skills that I have learnt will positively impact on my future
practice.
Written by Pim Taleongpong
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