Objectives: Describe the importance of organizational health literacy to safety, quality, and equity. Illustrate approaches to identifying, quantifying, describing, and using health literacy-related safety events in health care settings. Demonstrate potential applications of how health literacy-related safety event data and findings may inform approaches to preventing serious safety events. Hosted by the APA Health Literacy…

Co-hosted by the Quality Improvement SIG and the Emergency Medicine SIG. The speakers will be: Shabnam Jain, MD, MPH Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University Medical Director for Clinical Effectiveness, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Olivia Ostrow, MD Staff Physician, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Medical Safety Leader, Hospital for Sick Children Associate Professor, University of Toronto  

The 2024 APA Region 1 meeting will be held at Longwood Medical Campus in Boston, MA on April 1, 2024.     Abstract Submissions are open! The deadline to submit an abstract has been extended to Friday, February 16, 2024 at 5:00 pm EST. Submit an Abstract    Registration is open!   Register Today    Please…

Objectives: Review the importance of organizational health literacy to safety, quality, and equity Review prior approaches to identifying, quantifying, describing, and using health literacy-related safety events in health care settings Discuss potential applications of how health literacy-related safety event data and findings may inform approaches to preventing serious safety events Hosted by the APA Health…

Are you a pediatric trainee interested in pursuing a career in global health? Are you a global health educator/program director looking for accreditation or tools to enhance your global health fellowship program? Pediatric Global Health Fellowship Educators Group 3rd Annual PAS Meeting “Building the Field of Pediatric Global Health” Thursday May 2, 2024: 9:30-11:30 AM…

Pediatric Academic Generalist & Hospital Medicine Fellows and Trainee Meeting The annual Pediatric Academic Generalist and Hospitalist Medicine Fellows’ Conference convenes all fellows Academic General and Hospital Medicine Pediatric Fellows, Residents, and Program Directors from around the country to network, to develop professionally and to share scholarly interests in research, education, quality improvement or advocacy.…

About 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…

Career fit follow up: come join the wellbeing and vitality SIG to talk about your career fit plan, find an accountability partner to help you move your plan forward, and discuss other plans for the SIG. If you missed our PAS workshop on career fit, don't worry: we'll review all the information you need to…