Mary Ottolini MD, MPH

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, AAP 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) .

Updated 04/07/08