Continuity

• 2008 Continuity SIG agenda/minutes
• Introduction of members, including several new members. About 55 members attended the annual meeting of the Continuity SIG. John Olsson, Chair of the Continuity SIG, urged continuity leaders to become APA members. He also reminded junior members that SIG members can be mentors for their careers.
• Marilyn Dumont-Driscoll presented a report from the APA Board. She reminded members that the APA Business Meeting is open to all and that new members of the APA’s four committees are always welcome. Additional updates included the recent Board retreat, the new name (Academic Pediatric Association), the Development Fund, a 2009 Educational Meeting, New Century Scholars, and APA elections.
• Susan Feigelman and Becky Collins (not present) talked about the opportunity to post more information on SIG listservs. The group decided to post summaries of queries from the listserv, for example. More work would be done to make the website more useful in the future. There are about 250 members using the continuity listserv. APA-continuitysig@listserv.ambpeds.org is the address to post Continuity SIG issues.
• Janet Serwint provided an update of CORNET (Continuity Research Network). This included a discussion of current enrollment of sites, new manuscripts and abstracts in progress, and a review of current grants for future projects. Interested members were invited to become a member and contact information was provided (cornet@ambpeds.org).
• Jan Drutz reviewed the history of having a manual for new continuity directors, now out of date, and interest in revising the manual with the help of members in addition to members of the Task Force. The manual will need some new chapters in addition to the old ones.
• Jan Drutz also gave a report of a meeting held earlier in the PAS with continuity preceptors who were using the EPIC electronic medical record. This group looked at the use of EPIC to gather data for RRC visits and for doing research. Members using other electronic medical records were encouraged to participate in this effort. Jan asked members to contact him by e-mail if they had interest.
  
• Sharon Riesen presented an RRC update, taking questions and comments from the membership. Recent citations related to continuity are more of the same: bean counting. Susan Feigelman shared that U. of Maryland is one of three sites for beta testing an ACMGE learning portfolio. More information about this can be found on the ACGME website.
• Susan Guralnick and Diane Kittredge provided an update on the R3P project, which is coming to a close. They shared that the outcome of extensive discussions was that it was difficult to predict the future of pediatrics and therefore there could not be a prescription for pediatric education. However, innovative teaching methodologies should be explored and shared. There is interest in working with the APPD, and in particular, the interest is largely on the continuity curriculum. Project ideas may require an ACGME waiver, especially with projects that are collaborative, multisite projects. There is no set timeline for the an RFP.
• Finally, John Olsson introduced the workshop portion of the meeting. He provided an historical background of the ACGME’s interest in looking at other outcome measures for which to determine the adequacy of the continuity experience. Work has moved forward in collaboration with the APPD.
• Four break-out groups looked at educational goals developed by the CC SIG Task Force in their October meeting and came up with next steps. Each of the four groups presented summaries of their discussion. These summaries will be typed and shared with an emphasis to move this process forward over the next few months.