Advocacy Training
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Summer 2008 Newsletter Article Advocacy Training SIG
Description/agenda of the National PAS SIG meeting
Our Advocacy Training Special Interest Group meeting had a mix of some speakers,
some breakout groups and the resident poster and presentation from residents.
Our Speakers were focused on two arenas:
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Developing an academic career in child advocacy. Special guest David Keller,
who spoke about important examples of physician advocates, and some of
the lessons learned from them regarding how to drive your passion, find the
institutional support and how to be academically productive with creative
mechanisms, such as blogs.
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Results from CPTI chief resident needs assessment on community health and
advocacy training. Special Guest: Alana Bailey-WhyBrew, Senior Manager Community
Pediatric Training Initiative, gave some great insight into how much advocacy
training is occurring based on a survey of chief residents recently, which
shows more breadth and depth, but still key areas to work together as a SIG!
Our breakout session was based on trying to do a “Consultation
Clinic” based on the two speakers’ topics and
what questions were generated and we broke out into two different
groups:
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Making an academic career, which included lessons about
using time well and to generating academic products. The take home
messages were to use
the media; use available datasets (WIC, Department of public health, social service
agencies). There was urging to use partnerships, essential to “buy
time”, not just writing Grants is important; not necessarily NIH and
consider publications that aren’t necessarily “medical” (i.e.
public health journals). There were also lessons about combining Research
and Advocacy, such as to be selective about the questions you ask, and partner
with other researchers at institutions to use each other's strengths.
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Making advocacy curriculum work, which included lessons
on how to “sell” the
importance of pediatric resident advocacy education to your institution in
order to secure the time, space, and money needed. It was important to engage
and give back to community partners, such as the medical community can provide
technical support to community partners (i.e. when the CBO is applying for
funding, etc.), make sure the CBO receives the positive resident feedback
during the rotation and know the mission of the CBO and see if there are
ways the
pediatric community can assist them in reaching their goals. It is also important
to find how mentors within the institution are identified? It is important
to consider using community pediatricians, APA members as mentors and show
how faculty members can use advocacy as a means to scholarship. Lastly, it
is important to partner with and identify mentors from other colleges who
are part of the larger institution: Law, Public Health, Dentistry, etc.
Last but not least, we had our Resident Community Health
and Advocacy Poster and Presentations.
SIG Co-Chairs
Anda Kuo (akuo@sfghpeds.ucsf.edu)
Megan Sandel (megan.sandel@bmc.org)
Allison Brindle (brindla@ccf.org)
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Co-Chairs
Anda Kuo MD
1001 Potrero Avenue, MS 6E
San Francisco,CA 94110
Phone: 415/206-3090
Fax: 415/206-3686
akuo@sfghpeds.ucsf.edu
Megan Sandel
Megan Sandel MD, MPH
91 E. Concord Street
Boston, MA 02118
Phone: 617/414-3680
Fax: 617/414-3679
megan.sandel@bmc.org
Allison Brindle MD
The Children’s Hospital at The Cleveland Clinic
9500 Euclid Avenue, Desk A120
Cleveland, OH 44195
Phone: 216/444-2733
Fax: 216/445-3523
brindla@ccf.org |
