Summer 2008 Newsletter Article
The Education Committee met on Sunday May 4th at the PAS meeting
in Honolulu.
Ray Helfer Award Winner:
Dr. Jennifer Arnold for her paper entitled: “Effect of a High Fidelity
Simulation Curriculum on Pediatric Resident Competency in Neonatal Airway Management
Skills”. Dr. Arnold and her collaborators in the Division of Neonatology
at Stonybrook determined that the neonatal intubation simulation she developed
significantly enhanced resident performance in real intubating real neonates.
Teaching Award:
Leslie Fall, Norm Berman and their many collaborators won the Teaching Award
for the interactive computer program: CLIPP, which incorporates the COMSEP
competencies and is used by most pediatric clerkships across the nation.
APA Educational Guidelines
URL: http://www.ambpeds.org/egweb/
The Educational Guidelines Team monitors website usage (new registrants, log-ins,
and downloads) and is happy to report high satisfaction and sustained usage
of the website over the past three years. We have received some requests to
post new and updated curricular materials (EBM, community pediatrics and mental
health). To accommodate these and other requests, we have developed a review
process and we are developing the administrative component of the website so
we can update our database of goals and objectives more easily.
CALL FOR UPDATES/SUBMISSIONS
Groups such as APA SIGs, APA committees, etc., that are writing curricular
goals, objectives and/or competencies should contact us early in their writing
process, so we can discuss formatting requirements. Advanced planning will
allow us to integrate your material more effectively into the website. Please
contact Diane Kittredge or another member of the Editorial Team.
Diane Kittredge --Diane.Kittredge@Hitchcock.ORG
Connie Baldwin --Constance_Baldwin@urmc.rochester.edu
Mimi Bar-on-- mbar-on@medicine.nevada.edu
Trish Beach-- psbeach@utmb.edu
Franklin Trimm-- rftrimm@usouthal.edu
PAS Educational Scholars Program
The ESP is currently recruiting its third cohort of 20 scholars, who will include
about 10 pediatric hospitalists and 10 faculty from other pediatric disciplines.
(Please see the accompanying newsletter article by Connie Baldwin for details)
4th Year Medical Student Curriculum:
Drs. Konopasek and Sanguino, leaders of the COMSEP Curriculum Task Force are
developing a Pediatric Sub-Internship rotation curriculum. Dr. Bill Raska,
the COMSEP president has been developing a survey to be circulated through
the COMSEP, APPD and APA listserves to determine perceived gaps in current
4th year medical student education for those entering a pediatric internship
after graduation.
“ Pediatric Educational Excellence Across the
Continuum Conference”
Maryellen Gusik is leading a planning committee which includes members from
the leadership of COMSEP (Bill Raszka, Chris White), APPD (Rob McGregor and
Susan Guralnick) and Mary Ottolini to work out logistics for the conference
which is tentatively being planned for fall of 2009. We will seek the wealth
of experience and creativity within the membership of the three organizations
when planning the educational sessions.
We envision this “Pediatric Educational Excellence Across
the Continuum Conference” (PEEAC) to be the first in
a series of annual meetings to enable pediatric educators teaching
different levels of learners (students, residents, fellows)
and in different clinical settings including the ED, primary
care in either academic or community based setting or inpatient
or critical care unit to collaborate and learn from each other.
We envision that this conference will offer tracks focusing
on different topic areas/levels of teaching experience and
the opportunity to collaboratively plan pilot projects to introduce
new curricula to improve education across the pediatric continuum.
Education Committee Selected Workshops:
Connie Baldwin, Larrie Greenberg, Fred McCurdy and Mary Ottolini led the Education
Committee sponsored workshop this year: 3156 Educational Scholarship: Writing,
Publishing, and Reaping the Rewards
The Committee selected a workshop proposed by Lindsey Lane
and Rob McGregor for the 2009 sponsored workshop, focusing
on how to encourage collaboration between educators responsible
for teaching different levels of trainees and in different
settings.Drs McGregor and Lane gave a preview, leading a mini-workshop during the Education Committee meeting this year discussing how to translate theories about overcoming barriers to collaboration from the business to the medical education setting. We look forward to learning more from them in Baltimore!
Summary of COPE: The American Academy of Pediatrics
Committee on Pediatric Education
COPE held its annual meeting in Chicago, IL on November 18-19, 2007. (The Education
Committee was represented by Franklin Trimm due to the overlap with the APA
Fall Board Meeting) Several topics of importance to present and future Pediatric
education were discussed and are summarized here.
Physician Re-entry into the Workforce.
With the growing proportion of women in pediatrics and other specialties, there
will likely be an increase in the number of pediatricians taking an extended
leave during their career or returning to medicine after retiring. Physicians
returning to the workforce will face questions about their competence to
resume clinical practice. The AAP established the Physician Reentry into
the Workforce Project with four workgroups focusing on the concerns noted
above. For further information see www.aap.org/reentry.
Residency Review and Redesign in Pediatrics Project
(R3P) Changes Direction.
A project is under way to assess general pediatric residency training and design
the best education for pediatricians now and in the future. Three colloquia
have been convened over the year of August, 2006 through August, 2007 to create
a shared body of knowledge through dialogue within the pediatric community.
The ongoing responsibility of the R3P project will be to determine how best
to permit goal-oriented innovation in pediatric residency education, how to
initiate, facilitate and sustain it, how to oversee it, and finally how to
disseminate proven innovations. For more information or to give feedback see
the R3P section of the American Board of Pediatrics website, www.abp.org.
Resident Education in Environmental Health and Medical Toxicology
The AAP Committee on Environmental Health (COEH) developed educational strategies
to improve the education of healthcare providers. Dr. Helen Binns, Chair
of the COEH, presented these strategies. the 2nd edition of the “greenbook”,
Pediatric Environmental Health 2003, free to all AAP members/all incoming
pediatric residents. For more info call 866-843-2271. See case studies from
the CDC: www.atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/csem.html;
webcasts from the EPA: yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/content/2007activities.htm.
Resident Education in the Uniformed Services
A presentation by Capt. Gregory Blaschke, MD focused on the unique aspects
of pediatric education in the uniformed services and the impact of military
action on families and children
International Pediatric Education
Two separate focus areas have been addressed by COPE and the AAP Section of
International Child Health (SOICH). The Global Health Educational Council
(GHEC) is in the midst of surveying every medical residency program on their
international rotations and is going to develop a large resource online composed
of all those international opportunities. To address and remove these barriers,
the AAP submitted a resolution to the American Medical Association House
of Delegates to “work to achieve improved flexibility in graduate medical
education funding to defray the costs of rotations in underserved and underrepresented
areas that take place outside of a residency’s sponsoring institution,
included international settings.”
Culturally Effective Pediatric Care (CEPC)
A number of educational resources for teaching CEPC have been collected over
the past year by COPE members and administrators. The next phase will be
to further develop specific educational goals and objectives/organize educational
resources to effectively accomplish the educational objectives. These will
be available through the Association of Pediatric Program Directors (APPD)
web-based Share Warehouse (www.appd.org)
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Mary Ottolini MD, MPH- Mottolin@cnmc.org
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Members of
the Education Committee Executive Group and the FD
Program Executive Committee
| Education
Committee Task Forces: |
Faculty Development
Certification Program Task Forces: |
Awards
E-Connections
Educational Resources
Educational Research
Humanism Workshop
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FD Program Marketing and Communications
FD Enrollment and Certification
FD Curriculum Planning
FD Project Facilitation
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| Name |
Email |
Roles |
| Baldwin, Constance |
constance_baldwin@urmc.rochester.edu |
FD Exec Comm Co-Chair |
| Bar-on, Miriam |
mbar@lumc.edu |
Awards (co-leader), FD Curr Plan |
| Barratt, Michelle |
Michelle.S.Barratt@uth.tmc.edu |
Educ Research (co-leader), FD Proj Facil |
| Chandran, Latha |
lchandran@notes.cc.sunysb.edu |
FD Exec Comm, Co-Chair; FD Curr Plan (leader) |
| D'Alessandro, Donna |
donna-dalessandro@uiowa.edu |
FD Market/Comm |
| Devries, Jeff |
devriesj@oakwood.org |
FD Enroll/Certif |
| Ferrell, Cindy |
ferrellc@ohsu.edu |
FD Curr Plan |
| Gaebler, Charlene |
cgaebler@mail.mcw.edu |
FD Exec Comm, E-Conn (co-leader), Proj Faci |
| Garfunkel, Lynn |
lynn.garfunkel@viahealth.org |
Educ Resources (co-leader), FD Proj Facil |
| Gusic, Maryellen |
mgusic@psu.edu |
FD Exec Comm, E-Conn (co-leader), FD Enroll/Certif (leader) |
| Johnson, Carl |
carl.johnson@mssm.edu |
Educ Research (co-leader) |
| Keller, David |
kellerd@ummhc.org |
FD Exec Comm; FD Market/Comm (leader) |
| Konopasek, Lyuba |
LYK2003@med.cornell.edu |
Awards (co-leader), Humanism wksp (co-leader); FD Market/Comm |
| Kuo, Alice |
AKuo@mednet.ucla.edu |
FD Exec Comm; FD Proj Facil (co-leader) |
| Lopreiato, Joe |
jlopreiato@simcen.usuhs.mil |
FD Exec Comm; FD Enroll/Certif |
| McCurdy, Fred |
fred.mccurdy@ttuhsc.edu |
FD Enroll/Certif |
| Niebuhr, Virginia |
vniebuhr@utmb.edu |
FD Exec Comm; Market/Comm; Humanism wksp |
| Ottolini, Mary |
mottolin@cnmc.org |
Educ Comm Chair |
| Rauch, Daniel |
daniel.rauch@med.nyu.edu |
Educ Resources (co-leader), FD Curr Plan |
| Rider, Elizabeth |
elizabeth_rider@hms.harvard.edu |
Humanism wksp (co-leader) |
| Risko, Wanessa |
wanessa.risko@childrens.harvard.edu |
FD Proj Facil (co-leader) |
| Trimm, Franklin |
ftrimm@jaguar1.usouthal.edu |
Educ Resources (co-leader), FD Curr Plan |
| Zenni, Elisa |
elisa.zenni@jax.ufl.edu |
Humanism wksp |
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Develop an annual educational
agenda for APA and submit to Board for approval
Create task forces to implement annual agenda and
appoint leaders for key activities
Provide follow-up on past projects: e.g., support
continuing development, evaluation and dissemination
of the Educational Guidelines for Pediatric
Residency
Lead the APA Faculty Development Program in collaboration
with the Faculty Development SIG
Participate in planning for the Academic Pediatric
Generalist fellowship accreditation program
Choose topic, submit abstract and conduct committee-sponsored
workshop for PAS
Communicate with larger membership of the Education
Committee about new opportunities and activities
Write articles on current activities for the APA
newsletter
Plan and maintain committee webpage on the APA
website
Review abstracts for PAS workshops
Review abstracts for PAS presentations
Assist with selection of the annual APA Teaching
Award (to programs) and Young Investigator Award
Choose annual winner of Helfer Award (to individuals,
based on submitted abstracts in the education domain)
Oversee Miller/Sarkin Mentoring Award process
Represent the APA at the AAP Committee on Pediatric
Education (COPE)
Plan for spring PAS meeting:
Report to the Board
Educ committee meeting agenda
Committee-sponsored workshop
FD Program activities |
APA Faculty Development Program
The mission of the APA Faculty Development
Program is to assist the membership in developing themselves as productive,
advancing and fulfilled faculty members and to increase the quality, status
and visibility of pediatric educators in academia. The program operates the Educational
Scholars Program and E-Connections.
Updated 04/07/08 |
