Advocacy Training SIG
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October 2009 Newsletter Article
CALL FOR RESIDENT ABSTRACTS
The Advocacy Training SIG of the Academic Pediatric Association is requesting proposals for posters describing resident community health and advocacy projects. We are hoping to share great ideas and learn from each other about what great work pediatric residents are doing in their communities. New this year, each poster selected for presentation will receive faculty feedback at the SIG, providing an additional learning opportunity for our pediatric trainees. The abstract is limited to 250 words and should include authors and a faculty advisor. Please use a structured abstract format, either the standard PAS format (Background, Objective, Methods, Results, Conclusion) or the modified format suggest in call for proposals (Timeline, Target audience, Goals and objectives, Activities, Outcomes measures and Lessons learned in implementation). You may submit abstracts being considered for presentation at other PAS venues.
Please submit abstracts to the Advocacy SIG:
APAAdvocacySIG@gmail.com
Due Date: December 18, 2009
Notification: January 29, 2010
Presentation at SIG: Date and Time to be determined
SIG Co-Chairs:
Allison Brindle
brindla@ccf.org
Anda Kuo
AKuo@sfghpeds.ucsf.edu
Megan Sandel
megan.sandel@bmc.org
Previous Newsletter Article
Thank you to all who participated in the Advocacy Training Special Interest Group meeting in Baltimore. Thanks again to the Community Pediatric Training Initiative for sponsoring a wonderful breakfast. There was great participation and interaction amongst the attendees. Our theme of the meeting was Creating Academic Careers as Child Advocates.
Our key note address was "Doing Advocacy and Getting Your Work Published" by Howard Bauchner, the Editor in Chief of Archives of Disease in Childhood, the Pediatric Journal of British Medical Journal (BMJ). He offered a lot of great ideas of non traditional types of articles and ways to research good journal choices. (We had a last minute speaker change with Josh Sharfstein, MD becoming the Assistant FDA commissioner. Thank you, Dr Bauchner!)
The crux of our meeting was an interactive workshop, "Making your Advocacy Count in Promotion and Tenure," by Cathy Jordan, Director of the Children Youth and Family Consortium at the University of Minnesota, who also is one of the authors of the Community-Engaged Scholarship Toolkit from Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (http://www.communityengagedscholarship.info/). Attendees were put to work on mock promotion and tenure committees, highlighting the importance of capturing and framing one's advocacy work within the context of the academic arena.
Last but not least, we had our Resident Community Health and Advocacy Poster and Presentations - the spotlight and the highlight of the SIG! Three residents gave oral presentations: John Peoples, MD from Stanford, Angie Valdez, MD from the University of Utah and Anna Fishbein, MD from Children's Memorial Hospital. Nineteen residents presented posters.
Some suggestions for future meetings include: addressing how community health and advocacy training programs occur within residencies, learning from the wisdom of lobbyists, and broadening our scope by linking with medical students and other pediatric specialties engaged in advocacy. We look forward to incorporating the feedback and wonderful ideas raised at our SIG meeting for the 2010 meeting in Vancouver!
SIG Chair:
Allison Brindle brindla@ccf.org
SIG Co-Chairs:
Allison Brindle, MD
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland,OH44195
Phone: (216) 444-2733
Fax: (216) 445-3523
brindla@ccf.org
Anda Kuo, MD
1001 Potrero Avenue
San Francisco,CA94110
Phone: (415) 206-3090
Fax: (415) 206-3686
akuo@sfghpeds.ucsf.edu
Megan Sandel, MD, MPH
88 E Newton St
Boston,MA02118
Phone: (617) 414-3680
Fax: (617) 414-3679
megan.sandel@bmc.org
