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The Academic Pediatric Association's World Wide Web site promotes the mission of the organization to foster the health of children, adolescents, and families by promoting generalism in academic pediatrics and academics in general pediatrics. The site provide accurate and current information regarding the efforts by the APA to improve the teaching of general pediatrics, to improve services in general pediatrics and to affect public and government opinion regarding issues vital to teaching, research and patient care in general pediatrics to a world wide audience via the Internet.
APA Website is maintained by the team effort of the APA staff, the APA Webmaster and the APA Communications Director. This team works collaboratively and communicates quarterly to discuss the content and format of the information presented on the APA Web site. The APA Board of Directors provides oversight and guidance. Responsibilities of each team member are specified below:
APA Staff acts as the primary contact person for the members who wish to place information onto the site, responds to member inquiries regarding the content and format of the information presented at the site, works with members to put their material in a suitable format, and evaluates feedback from members. The Staff refers technical questions about the site to the APA Webmaster.
APA Webmaster is primarily responsible for posting the material on the Web site. The Webmaster coordinates the technical aspects of the Web site maintenance, updates the site and responds to technical inquiries.
APA Communications Director is responsible for reviewing material referred by the APA Staff, reviewing potential links, and representing the APA Board of Directors. The Communications Director, acting on behalf of the APA Board of Directors, has the ultimate decision on the content and structure of the site.
Feedback and reports of inaccuracies concerning the materials on the APA Website is encouraged and should be sent to the APA Communications Director directly. The Communications Director will address inaccuracies as is appropriate.
Suitability of materials for presentation on the APA Website lies with the Communications Director, who consults with the APA Board of Directors when necessary. The final decision about material suitability rests with the APA Board of Directors.
Procedure for Submission to APA Website:
In an effort to maintain the quality of the information and protect the interests of the APA membership, the following procedure for submission of information to be placed onto the Web site has been instituted:
- Each Committee, Region and Special Interest Group will have ample space available on the APA website. Changes to and maintenance of the Committee, Region and Special Interest Group pages are the responsibility of the Committee, Region or SIG Chair, though the responsibility may be delegated as deemed appropriate by the Chair. Committee, Region, and Special Interest Group (SIG) materials should be forwarded by the Chair or a designated representative of the appropriate group to the APA Staff. The APA Staff will work with the designated representative to place the material in a suitable format for the website. After APA staff review, reports of relevant activities and contacts will be forwarded by the APA staff to the Webmaster to be placed on the site. All postings will be dated on the day that they are posted to the website. If a new submission replaces an existing posting, the submitter must specify that the old posting is to be deleted. If this is not specified, the old posting will be retained on the site. A link to items submitted to each APA newsletter will be added to the page by the APA staff. Updates may be requested once per month, and must be received by the 15th of the month to be implemented on or before the last day of the same month.
An APA member who is not the designated representative of a Committee, Region, or Special Interest Group should first consider if an item is appropriate for a Committee, Region or Special Interest Group. If so, the member will send the item to the Chair or designated representative of that Committee, Region, or Special Interest Group. If an item does not concern a Committee, Region, or Special Interest Group, an APA member will send it directly to the Communications Director.
- Material from the APA National Office and the APA Board of Directors (including standing committee reports) will go straight to the APA Webmaster who will place them on the site with only an FYI to the Communications Director. This will include officers and appointments, newsletters, mission statement, policy statements and bylaws. Updates must be received by the 15th of the month to be implemented on or before the last day of the same month.
- Classified advertisements about employment opportunities that have been submitted to Ambulatory Pediatrics for publication will also be placed into the "Pediatric Positions Available" section of the APA Website by the APA Staff. Each notice will be dated and removed at appropriate intervals from the website by the Webmaster. All classified ads placed in Ambulatory Pediatrics are posted on the APA web site and appear in the APA Newsletter at no additional charge. For more information on placing an ad in the Journal, please contact Natalie Stoker at nstoker@allenpress.com.
- General Pediatrics Fellowships and Educational Opportunities will be presented on the site. The APA Staff will contact each General Pediatrics Fellowship Director in early September of each year and ask for updated information about Fellowship offerings. Other fellowship directors (Pediatric Environmental Health, Developmental-Behavioral, Pediatric Emergency Medicine) will also be encouraged to provide updated information regarding their programs yearly. Through active links, programs can provide application forms for their programs or present information about the available fellowships in their institutions.
How to contact APA Staff
- Usha Mishra should receive all inquires and submissions at usha@academicpeds.org
- Changes should be sent as a Microsoft Word document with a clear explanation of exactly what should appear online, as illustrated by the following examples:
- In the Education section the abbreviation "FPO Newsletter" should read FOPO Newsletter
- Under About APA, Leadership, Committee chairs, Research - please change Kathy Cristoffel, MD, MPH to:
Peter G. Szilagyi MD, MPH
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Rochester School of Medicine
601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 632
Rochester, NY 14642
Phone: 585/275-5798
Fax: 585/273-1080
Peter_Szilagyi@URMC.Rochester.edu
- When you click on leadership from the main page make the links active in the
list that appears (Region Chairs, SIG Chairs, Past Board Members)
- Please add some space between the two columns on the region chairs contact list.
For questions, comments or ideas for improvement of the Website, please contact:
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