Academic Pediatric Association

APA Small Research Grants Info Session
2022-08-25 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)

E-learning SIG and Medical Student Education - VR workshop
2022-08-17 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Join us in exploring the potential of latest technologies of extended reality using mixed and virtual reality for anatomy education. Hear directly from the experts themselves from Case Western Reserve University. Come and attend to be inspired, to find ways to collaborate and learn about meaningful integration of technology. We guarantee, your anatomy instruction will never be the same!
Title: A 21st Century Approach to Human Anatomy Education
When Case Western Reserve School of Medicine planned its new medical education building, the administration decided that the building would not include cadaveric dissection labs. This allowed the faculty to develop a new approach to anatomy education. Thanks to a partnership with Microsoft, HoloAnatomy® Software and subsequently HoloNeuroAnatomy® Software were born. This talk describes our journey into twenty-first-century anatomy education and our current curriculum at our new Health Education Campus. One of our goals was to bring in the new without abandoning our past.
Check on the links below to find out more about their previous work and scholarly accomplishments.

Hololens website- https://case.edu/holoanatomy/
Case Western Hololens scholarship- https://case.edu/holoanatomy/research/

APA Journal Club: August 2022
2022-08-04 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
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Speed Mentoring at PHM
2022-07-30 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Speed Mentoring will take place at the Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) meeting on July 30, from 530 pm – 7 pm EDT.
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Applying for a General Academic Pediatric Fellowship Webinar
2022-07-28 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Hosted by the AGPAC, a panel of general academic pediatrics fellows share what you need to know to apply to a GAP fellowship.
Panelists
Clarisse Casilang, MD, Pediatric Global Health Fellow Graduate
Carol Duh-Leong, MD, AGP Fellow Graduate, NYU
Michelle March, MD, AGP Fellow, Cincinnati Children’s
Andria Tatem, MD, MEd, AGP Fellow Graduate, Baylor College of Medicine
Moderator
Paul Darden, MD, University of Arkansas
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Continuity SIG & Bright Futures Listening Session
2022-07-22 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Join the Continuity SIG & Bright Futures Steering Committee to chat about:

How to teach about Bright Futures/AAP Periodicity? (classroom, in office, other?)
How to weave BF/AP into discussions that aren’t focused on well visits
The BF resources you find most useful to share with residents
The resources you wish you had? (both to teach residents and for yourselves)
Overall, where does BF fall short? Where is it most useful?

ALL ARE WELCOME TO JOIN!
July 22nd, at 12pm ET/9am PT at our interactive and chatty webinar!
Register using the link below.

Why Choose a General Academic Pediatrics Fellowship Webinar
2022-07-21 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
Hosted by the AGPAC, a panel of general academic pediatrics fellows share their experiences.
Panelists
Michelle March, MD, AGP Fellow, Cincinnati Children’s
Aleena Paul, MD, MBA AGP Fellow Graduate
Anik Patel, MD, Global Health Peds Fellow Graduate, University of Utah
Andria Tatem, MD, MEd, AGP Fellow Graduate, Baylor College of Medicine
Moderator
Teri Turner. MD, MPH, MEd, Baylor College of Medicine & Texas Children’s
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July APA Journal Club
2022-07-07 12:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
Medical Escape Rooms: How to Measure Success?
Medical escape rooms can be fun but are they effective? How do we evaluate them?
Presented by APA’s Medical Education Journal Club
Thursday July 7th at 12:30 pm ET

Trainee well-being is a growing focus in graduate medical education, and medical escape rooms have emerged as a fun, engaging way to teach and build camaraderie. We will discuss an article that evaluates a medical escape room activity through the lens of building workplace social capital. Are there other ways to evaluate medical escape rooms? Are they a more effective way of teaching or just another trend?
Article:
Michelle D. Lundholm, Kevin P. Simpson & Laura Ozark (2022) A medical escape room to build intern workplace social capital in an internal medicine residency program, Medical Teacher, 44:5, 546-550.
Discussants:

Adin Nelson, MD, MHPE, FAAP; Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics; Associate Pediatrics Clerkship Director; Weill Cornell Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, New York, NY
Maheen Quadri, MD, MS; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; Continuity Clinic Director; Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Chicago, IL

APA Health Literacy SIG Works in Progress Session
2022-06-10 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
The APA Health Literacy SIG is hosting a works in progress session on June 10th at 2-3pm EST via zoom. The purpose of this session is for faculty and trainees to receive feedback on their health literacy-related questions and projects in any stage. Presenters will give a 5-7 minute overview of their project and bring questions they would like attendees to answer. We invite all faculty and trainees to attend the session, whether you want to share your experiences with health literacy-related research or learn about new health literacy-related projects.
Please register using the link below. We hope to see you there!
Feel free to reach out to Alex Glick with any questions at alexander.glick@nyulangone.org

Catalyst Webinar - Dealing with Imposter Syndrome
2022-05-25 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)

APA Journal Club: May 2022
2022-05-05 13:30 - 14:30 (America/New_York)
Article: The shift from disbelieving underperformance to recognising failure: A tipping point model
How do medical educators recognize when a resident is unlikely to succeed? What are the risk factors that usher us to the tipping point at which we must use that ugly four-letter “F” word–“Fail”? In this qualitative study, we explore the various aspects of a resident’s performance that supervisors use to cross the tipping point from disbelieving underperformance to recognizing failure.
Article:
Gingerich A, Sebok-Syer SS, Lingard L, Watling CJ. The shift from disbelieving underperformance to recognising failure: A tipping point model. Med Educ. 2022 Apr;56(4):395-406.
Discussants:

Abiara Vanessa Agwu, MD, Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellow, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Phoenix Children’s Hospital School of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ
Ruchi Kaushik, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Associate Residency Program Director, Medical Director of the Complex Care Clinic, Baylor College of Medicine – The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

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APA Annual Membership Meeting
2022-04-24 14:30 - 16:00 (America/Denver)

Speed Mentoring at PAS
2022-04-23 11:30 - 13:30 (America/Denver)
This is a fun and face-paced networking session designed to bring early career faculty and fellows together with mid-career and senior faculty.
Mentees will be assigned to a track and will have 10 minutes for one-on-one mentoring with mentors assigned to their track. After completion of the speed mentoring activity, the entire small group (mentors and mentees) in each track will meet for a lively discussion of mentees’ short- and long-term goals over lunch.
Additional Information
Mentors are individuals who have been in an academic faculty position for 8-10 years or longer.
Mentees are individuals who are in fellowship or in their first 6 years of an academic faculty position. (Exceptions for New Century Scholars!)
Mentees should come to the session with questions prepared to make the most of the 10 minutes per mentor. Both Mentee and Mentor CVs will be shared via email prior to the event to help facilitate conversation, but please be sure to bring a copy.
The final number of mentees and mentors will be determined by registration.

APA's 11th Annual Conference on Advancing Quality Improvement Science for Children's Health Care
2022-04-22 08:00 - 16:30 (America/Denver) | Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th St, Denver, CO, 80202, United States
QI 2022 Conference Schedule
Who Should Attend?
Clinicians, investigators and others interested in Implementation Science and Quality Improvement (QI) research who are seeking to develop additional expertise in state‐of‐the‐art approaches to developing, evaluating, and publishing studies of the effectiveness of quality improvement interventions.
Conference participants will engage in highly interactive breakout sessions led by leaders in the fields of pediatric Implementation Science and Quality Improvement research. Attendees will learn when and how to use specific methodologies for the design and analysis of intervention studies. They will also explore facilitators and barriers to implementing these methods.
Keynote speakers include Dr. David G. Nichols, former President and CEO of the American Board of Pediatrics; and Dr. Maria T. Britto, Director of the Center for Innovation in Chronic Disease Care, and Professor of UC Department of Pediatrics.
Hotel
The Hyatt Regency near the Convention Center is sold out. However, there are numerous other hotels available. Book your hotel here.
Registration
Pre-registration is closed. Onsite registration is available from 7 am – 8 am MDT outside of the Four Seasons Ballroom 4 in the Denver Convention Center on April 22.

APA Fellows Conference: Finding Your Academic Village: Connecting, Communicating and Career Development
2022-04-21 12:30 - 17:30 (America/Denver)
The goals of this conference are to develop academic skills and network.
Attendees are current fellows, fellowship directors and members of the APA AGP Accreditation Committee. Registration is free and fellows may request a $200 stipend for travel expenses.
Fellows Registration
Faculty Registration

Fellows Conference Agenda

Catalyst Webinar - Get a life: Productivity and time management for non-superhumans
2022-04-08 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)

Catalyst Webinar - Networking and Getting Known
2022-03-23 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)

Health Literacy SIG
2022-03-10 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
On March 10th at 3pm ET, the APA Health Literacy SIG is hosting a virtual collaboration meeting. We plan to appraise existing informational resources on the topic of COVID-19 vaccinations for any population (children and/or their caregivers) in any setting (outpatient or inpatient). Grab the resources your institution uses and either email them ahead of the meeting (see bolded email below) or simply bring them to the meeting! We hope to go through as many resources as time allows. See you there!
Best,
Joy, Alex, and Aditi
APA Health Literacy SIG Co-Chairs
jlsolano@cmh.edu

Catalyst Webinar - Rejection 101: A Master Class in Separating Rejection from Failure
2022-02-24 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)

Health Literacy SIG
2022-02-10 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
On March 10th at 2pm CST, the APA Health Literacy SIG is hosting a virtual collaboration meeting. We plan to appraise existing informational resources on the topic of COVID-19 vaccinations for any population (children and/or their caregivers) in any setting (outpatient or inpatient). Grab the resources your institution uses and either email them ahead of the meeting (see bolded email below) or simply bring them to the meeting! We hope to go through as many resources as time allows. See you there!

Catalyst Webinar - Job Search & Negotiation
2022-01-28 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)

Catalyst Webinar - The Journal Editor Perspective
2021-12-15 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York)

Medical Student Education SIG Webinar
2021-12-09 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
Looking for a way to highlight your work on a national stage? Be a part of the APA Medical Student Education SIG “Hot Topics” webinar! We would like to invite presenters for a national virtual webinar “Hot Topics In Medical Student Education” on December 9th 12pm eastern time. The webinar will be 1 hour in length and be divided into four fifteen minute presentations ( 1 for each category) with 10 minutes for each speaker and 5 minutes for Q&A. Please see the categories noted below:

Maintaining wellness (faculty or student)

What programs do you have in place for the maintenance of wellness in students and faculty?

Medical student career development

With step 1 going pass fail and more emphasis on activities, do you have an innovative system for medical student career development you would like to discuss?

Innovative Technology solutions for education

What new technologies are you using? How do you use it? Want to demonstrate?

Grab Bag

Got an interesting topic to share in medical student education? Let us hear it!

We will choose one presenter/presenting group for each session. Please submit a short description(up to 400 words) of your intervention accompanied with objectives and the category you are applying to. Submissions are due by October 15th.
Click here to submit.

APA Journal Club: December 2021
2021-12-07 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Article: Can We Stem the Tide of Resident Burnout?
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Catalyst Webinar - 15 Pearls for Manuscript Writing and Getting Your Manuscript Accepted
2021-11-11 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)

APA Presentation for Trainees
2021-11-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
We are so excited to have you join the APA’s thriving community of child health professionals and would like to share all of the ways trainees can get involved! Please join for us for a special presentation on the ins and outs of the APA, presented September 28th and again on November 4th.

Catalyst Webinar - How to Review an Abstract and Contribute to a Study Section
2021-10-27 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)

Pulling Back the Curtain on the Peer Review Process for National Professional Meetings: What Do I Need to Know and How I Can Use This Information to Write Abstracts That Will Be Selected?
2021-10-12 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Description
A cutting edge scientific meeting is dependent on skilled peer reviewers to aid in the development of a rigorous and stimulating program. Selection as a peer reviewer acknowledges the professional reputation of a faculty member and helps to provide evidence to support academic advancement and promotion. However, few faculty receive training to learn how to do this important task. This workshop applies to participants from all disciplines and will focus on advancing skills to be an effective reviewer. The session will provide participants with an opportunity to gain insight into the PAS scientific abstract and workshop proposal review and selection processes as well as assist attendees in providing specific, constructive feedback to colleagues who wish to disseminate their work in this venue. After an exercise to identify common challenges in reviewing and common writing pitfalls that may preclude an abstract from being accepted, a brief didactic presentation will provide an overview of how to apply PAS reviewer instructions and scoring rubrics. The majority of the workshop will be devoted to interactive small group break-out sessions facilitated by workshop leaders during which participants will review and score de-identified and modified scientific abstract submissions and workshop proposals. Attendees will also have the opportunity to address the challenge of selecting proposals when narrative review comments are limited or too general or do not align with scoring determinations. Discussions will be summarized in a large group brainstorming activity to create tips for reviewing using the lessons learned from the exercises. Participants will leave equipped with the tools to be effective reviewers and with learning that they will be able to apply as they mentor others who are creating proposals for consideration in a peer-review process.
Learning Objectives
1. List challenges for reviewers and tips to enhance reviews of scientific abstracts and workshop proposals
2. Describe the Pediatric Academic Societies abstract and workshop proposal review and selection processes
3. Effectively review abstracts and proposals to provide specific, constructive feedback to authors and data for program planners
4. Apply lessons learned to mentor others who are creating proposal for consideration in a peer-review process

This workshop is available to those registered for an all-access pass to PAS 2021.

Wellness and Vitality SIG Meeting
2021-09-30 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York)
Please join us for APA’s Wellness and Vitality SIG’s inaugural community-wide meeting!
We hope to invigorate this new SIG with YOUR energy and ideas. This session will be part introduction of the SIG and a review of its backstory and progress thus far, and part structured communal brainstorm session around what we can do in the APA to improve physician wellness.
We look forward to seeing you there!

APA Presentation for Trainees
2021-09-28 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
We are so excited to have you join the APA’s thriving community of child health professionals and would like to share all of the ways trainees can get involved! Please join for us for a special presentation on the ins and outs of the APA, presented September 28th and again on October 29th.
