PICUlearn

About PICUlearn

PICUlearn is a free, independent place to learn paediatric intensive care, for doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, ACPs and trainees, at any stage and in any country.

A short tour

Why it exists

Good PICU teaching is scattered across society webinars, conference recordings, guidelines and local study days. People starting in PICU, and people keeping up, spend a long time finding it. PICUlearn brings it together, checks it, and organises it so you can learn at your own pace.

What's inside

  • PICU Basics: a beginner course for anyone new to paediatric intensive care, with a certificate.
  • PICU Procedures: step-by-step walk-throughs of common procedures, each paired with a video.
  • Library: teaching videos and slides by system, topic and discipline, including nursing and physiotherapy.
  • Curricula: teaching mapped to the curricula people train against, in North America and the UK, so you can see what covers each part, track your progress and find your gaps.
  • Courses: structured courses with modules, quizzes and certificates, written by members and reviewed.
  • Guidelines and research: official guidance with its year and version, the evidence behind it, and new PICU research each week.
  • Calculators: core bedside calculations, each with its formula and source, checked before it goes live.
  • Peeky: a learning assistant that answers questions from PICUlearn's own checked sources, with citations.
  • Events: PICU conferences, courses and study days, with links to the organisers.
  • Groups: closed spaces where training programmes, departments and societies share teaching privately.
  • PICU this week: a free Monday newsletter with new teaching, research and events.

How content is chosen

PICUlearn follows trusted PICU teaching sources, guideline bodies and research databases every week. AI (Anthropic's Claude) helps sort what it finds: it suggests tags, writes short summaries and estimates how relevant each item is to PICU. People make the decisions: new material is approved by a PICUlearn admin or moderator before members see it, except for items from a small number of trusted sources that pass strict checks, which can be withdrawn at any time.

Videos from YouTube and Vimeo are embedded, never copied. Guideline full text is only stored where its licence allows; otherwise PICUlearn shows a summary and links to the original.

Independent and free

PICUlearn is free to use, carries no advertising and has no sponsors. It is not part of the NHS or any professional body. It was started by a paediatric intensive care trainee in the UK, which is why UK guidance is shown first where a reference point is needed, alongside the main international equivalents.

PICUlearn is run by Lifetree Digital Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (no. 16508268). The full details are in the terms of use and the privacy policy.

Founding advisers and supporters

People and organisations who backed PICUlearn early. They give their time and advice freely; none of them pays for anything or decides what appears here.

Advisers

  • Dr Michael Canarie, Paediatric critical care, Yale School of Medicine, USA; Founder, PCCiRLS (in a personal capacity)

For education

PICUlearn supports learning. It does not replace your unit's guidelines, clinical supervision or clinical judgement. Read educational use before relying on anything here.

Contact

Questions, corrections or content you'd like removed: info@piculearn.com.