Academic Pediatric Association

12th Annual Quality Improvement Research Conference
2023-04-28 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Marriott Marquis Washington, DC, 901 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington,, DC, 20001
Register Now for the APA 12th Annual QI Research Conference!
For more information about the event please go to the QI Meeting Page

Key Dates:
Call for Workshops: August 8 – October 4
Call for Abstracts: November 10 – January 4
Workshops Notification: December 7 – 9
Abstract Notification: February 24

2023 Fellows Conference
2023-04-27 12:00 - 17:00 | Washington, DC
Thursday, April 27th | Washington, DC
Optional Works in Progress (WIP) Pre-Conference Session 12:00-1:00pm ET
Fellows Conference Meeting 1:00-5:00pm ET
Networking Reception to follow
Please join us to build your skills in advocating for kids, communities, and yourself! Sample topics include: policy advocacy, building your 5-year plan, time management, disseminating your work, making the transition from fellowship to faculty.
Registration is complimentary for fellows and faculty. Register

Catalyst Webinar - Mentorship, Coaching, Sponsorship, and Connectors in Academic Medicine (with a focus on UIM)
2023-03-23 16:00 - 17:00

Region 6 Meeting 2023
2023-03-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
Region 6 will be hosting a series of Virtual Grand Rounds starting in March.
Check out the topics that will be presented!
Agenda
The first in the series will be held on Monday, March 13, 2023 from 12-1 PM CST.
Register here!

Region 5 Meeting 2023
2023-03-03 | Virtual
Region V APA Spring Conference is now virtual!
Growth and Development: Our Patients, Our Personhood, Our Profession
Sponsored by the Children’s Hospital of Illinois, Peoria, IL
Please SAVE THE DATE for Friday March 3, 2023
We are honored to announce that APA President Elect , Dr. Jean L. Raphael, M.D., M.P.H, will be the keynote speaker.

Keynote Information
Meeting Agenda
Registered attendees can access the meeting here.
Questions?
Please contact the Region V Co-Chairs:
Amy Christison, MD (alc@uic.edu)
Justin Triemstra, MD, MHPE (justin.triemstra@helendevoschildrens.org)
Rebecca Rothstein MD (rebecca.rothstein@ascension.org)

SIG Skills Workshop, Combined E-Learning & Medical Student Education SIG
2023-03-01 14:00 - 15:00
SIG Skills Workshop
Want to gain new skills before PAS?

Serving the Underserved SIG - Virtual Session
2023-02-28 17:30 - 18:30
Coffee and Collaboration
Come join us for an engaging session to connect with your fellow Serving the Underserved SIG members! We will be joined by Dr. Robert Karp and Dr. Julie Krueger to discuss how discriminatory housing policies and redlining resulted in increased lead exposures in minority communities, as well as the health impacts of lead and the clinical implications of the current CDC lead guidelines.
We will also discuss SIG business and preview our upcoming PAS 2023 workshop.
-Shweta Antani, DO and Padma Swamy, MD MPH

APA Journal Club- February 2023
2023-02-24 12:00 - 13:00
Finding Our Joy as Medical Educators
February 24, 12pm ET
How do we find joy and sustenance in our work as medical educators? How do we measure this, and can we find ways to align our work with these values?

We often discuss our learners. Today we will turn our attention to ourselves as medical educators. We will discuss a qualitative study examining sources of professional joy in medical educators, reviewing facets of qualitative methodology as well as the application of a model rooted in positive psychology.
Article: Sources of Joy In Medical Educators as Described by the PERMA Model – PubMed
Lagina M, Grum C, Sandhu G, Ruff AL. Sources of Joy In Medical Educators as Described by the PERMA Model. Teach Learn Med. 2022 Oct 17:1-8. doi: 10.1080/10401334.2022.2131556.

Discussants:

Noga L. Ravid, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA; Chair, Department of Pediatrics, John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek, CA
Berry Seelbach, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Hospital Pediatrics, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, University of Kentucky, College of Medicine

Presented by APA’s Medical Education Journal Club

Register Now!

To learn more about journal club, go to: https://degnonassociates.instructure.com/enroll/6KCGGC
Create a log-in, choose APA Medical Education Journal Club, and get ready to engage! We will have all webinars posted here after they are recorded.

Catalyst Webinar - Language Equity in Research
2023-02-15 13:00 - 14:00

Babies & Billing: Well vs. Sick Care in the Newborn Nursery - Newborn SIG Event
2023-02-08 18:00 - 19:00
Babies & Billing: Well vs. Sick Care in the Newborn Nursery
Bridget Allard DO, Dalton Haslam MD, Sandra Cuzzi MD
Do you have questions about newborn billing? Want to improve your billing practices? Then join us on Wednesday, February 8th for a webinar on newborn billing led by Drs. Allard, Haslam and Cuzzi from Children’s National. Please register using the link below and spread the word. In honor of Black History month prepare your cocktail in advance as we toast and learn!
This event is open to all.

Register Here

Signature Event Cocktail Recipe
Ingredients:

1.5oz Uncle Nearest 1884
0.5oz Lillet Rouge
0.5oz Lemon Juice
0.5oz Simple Syrup
3-4 Blueberries
1 Mint Leaf

Method:
Muddle blueberries, combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice, shake well and pour in rocks glass. Garnish with blueberries and mint leaf.

Qualitative Research Journal Club- Part 2
2023-01-25 15:00 - 16:00
What Does Critical Race Theory Have to Do with Qualitative Research? Part 2
Please join us for an exciting virtual Journal Club. We are fortunate to have renowned medical education researcher Dr. Janice Hanson lead this webinar in which she discusses her in-press qualitative study, “Racial/ethnic disparities in clerkship grading: Perspectives of students and teachers,” Academic Medicine, November 2022 RIME Supplement (See attachment). This will be the 2nd of a 2-part series led by Dr. Hanson.
Dr. Hanson is a Professor of Medicine, the Director of Education Scholarship Development and the Co-Director of the Medical Education Research Unit at Washington University School of Medicine.
This interactive journal club will engage participants in discussion of the results of a study of what explains racial/ethnic disparities in assessment during medical school. After a quick overview of the methods and short presentation of the results of a recently published RIME Research Paper, we will discuss the implications of the results of this study, and how a grounded theory approach to qualitative research illuminated the challenges of racial/ethnic disparities in medical education.
Date: Wednesday, January 25th
Time: 12:00PM PT / 1:00 MT / 2:00 CT / 3:00 ET

Hope to see you then!
Your SIG Co-chairs,
Ashwini Lakshmanan
Caroline R. Paul
Linda Tewskbury

Catalyst Webinar - Working with a Research Coordinator
2023-01-13 12:00 - 13:00

Continuity SIG Webinar
2022-12-14 20:00 - 21:00
Curious about X+Y scheduling and how it works compared to Traditional? Wondering how it might affect your continuity site?
Join us on December 14, at 8pm Eastern (7 Central, 6 Mountain, 5 Pacific) for a 1 hour webinar where we’ll have a very brief presentation and then a general discussion.

APA Medical Education Journal Club- December
2022-12-13 12:00 - 13:00
Presented by APA’s Medical Education Journal Club
Re-caffeinating morning report: how improvement science can enhance the quality of residency education

Case-based teaching . . . socializing . . . teaching pearls . . . all over a cup (or three) of coffee at 8am on a Monday . . .
Perhaps nothing encompasses the spirit and camaraderie of residency education as the tradition of morning report. But, how do we optimize the impact of this conference? Join us as we review a fascinating intervention designed to improve the quality of morning report using quality improvement methodology.

Presenters:
Jody Huber MD FAAP
Medical Director, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Pediatric Critical Care Division Director
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine
Sanford Children’s Hospital

Dr. Michael Ryan MD MEHP
Associate Dean for Assessment, Evaluation, Research, and Innovation
Director, Center for Medical Education Research and Scholarly Innovation
Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Hospital Medicine
University of Virginia School of Medicine

Article: Increasing Pediatric Morning Report Educational Value Through Quality Improvement
Dec 13th at 12pm EST

Organizational Health Literacy - A Panel Discussion
2022-12-02 13:00 - 14:00
Join the Health Literacy SIG for a virtual panel discussion on organizational health literacy, an important pillar of the Healthy People 2030 health literacy initiative. Andrea Morrison, MD (Children’s Wisconsin), Mary Ann Abrams, MD, MPH (Nationwide Children’s) and Joanna Wesley, MPH, MHA (Children’s Mercy Kansas City) will briefly discuss organizational health literacy and what it means in healthcare. They will then share the amazing work they are doing at their institutions and discuss ways we can promote organizational health literacy at our own institutions!
You can register at the link below.

Well-Being and Vitality SIG Webinar
2022-11-17 20:00 - 21:00
“We are thrilled to share that this year’s PAS conference will have a Wellness and Well-being Track. This track was listed as an option for Scholarly Session, Workshop and SIG submitters, and when the program guide launches in March, attendees will be able to look at the Wellness and Well-being Track and see an overall listing of any session whose submitter indicated their session fit into Wellness. We are so appreciative that PAS is making Wellness and Well-being such a priority!
Along those lines, the conference planners reached out to this SIG for input on how best to infuse wellness into the PAS conference this year. We would love to hear input from the SIG membership!
Please join the Well-Being Special Interest Group on 11/17 for an opportunity to reconnect with each other and brainstorm ways to help us all “stay well” during this year’s conference… and beyond! “
(You are encouraged to attend even if you’ve never participated in this SIG before, and even if you can’t be at the conference).
We hope to see you there!

Qualitative Research Journal Club
2022-11-16 15:00 - 16:00
What Does Critical Race Theory Have to Do with Qualitative Research? Part 1
Please join us for an exciting virtual Journal Club. We are fortunate to have renowned medical education researcher Dr. Janice Hanson lead this webinar in which she discusses her in-press qualitative study, “Racial/ethnic disparities in clerkship grading: Perspectives of students and teachers,” Academic Medicine, November 2022 RIME Supplement (See attachment). This will be the 1st of a 2-part series led by Dr. Hanson. Part 2 will be in January 2023
Dr. Hanson is a Professor of Medicine, the Director of Education Scholarship Development and the Co-Director of the Medical Education Research Unit at Washington University School of Medicine.

This interactive journal club discussion will start with a short presentation of the methods section of a recently published RIME Research Paper, Racial/ethnic disparities in clerkship grading: Perspectives of students and teachers. This study incorporates critical race theory as a conceptual framework to guide data collection and analysis. After the presentation of the methods in this study, we’ll discuss conceptual frameworks in qualitative research, beginning with these questions:
What is the difference between a conceptual framework and a philosophical framework?
How does the researcher’s view of knowledge (epistemology) affect qualitative research?
How can a researcher find a conceptual framework that can guide a qualitative research study?
How does a conceptual framework influence what the researchers learn in a qualitative study?
What do conceptual and philosophical frameworks have to do with reflexivity?
What questions do you have about conceptual frameworks in qualitative research?

APEX info Session
2022-10-27 15:00 - 16:00, 2022-09-08 11:00 - 12:00
Join us for an informal webinar to learn more about the APEX program.

NADEP Info Session
2022-10-11 14:00 - 15:00
Join us for an informal webinar to learn more about the NADEP program.

Qualitative Research SIG - Virtual Journal Club
2022-09-28 15:00 - 16:00

APA Small Research Grants Open Office Hours
2022-09-22 14:00 - 16:00

APA New Century Scholars Info Session
2022-09-15 13:00 - 14:00
Join us for an informal webinar and Q&A session to learn more about the New Century Scholars program.

E-learning SIG and Medical Student Education - Hot Topics Webinar
2022-09-14 16:30 - 17:30
Dear APA community,
We are excited to invite you to the E-learning and Medical Student Education SIG HOT TOPIC WEBINAR on September 14th from 4:30-5:30pm EST. Join us and hear form experts around the country about the innovative work they are doing in simulation, gamification and virtual reality to address educational challenges and push the boundaries of teaching. Come and attend to be inspired, to find ways to collaborate and learn about meaningful integration of technology. We guarantee, your teaching will never be the same!

Shakun Gupta
Miriah Catherine Gillispie-Taylor

Jennifer C. Benjamin

Daniel Young

Hana Smith
Daren Delson Molina

APA Advancing Pediatric Leaders (APL) Info Session
2022-09-01 17:00 - 18:00

APA Small Research Grants Info Session
2022-08-25 16:00 - 17:00

E-learning SIG and Medical Student Education - VR workshop
2022-08-17 15:00 - 16:00
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
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Speed Mentoring at PHM
2022-07-30 17:30 - 19:00
Speed Mentoring will take place at the Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) meeting on July 30, from 530 pm – 7 pm EDT.
Register

Applying for a General Academic Pediatric Fellowship Webinar
2022-07-28 15:00 - 16:00
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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