Fall 2007 Newsletter Article

From the excitement of the SIG meeting in Toronto through the doldrums of a hot and lazy summer to the early fall; it’s time for the Continuity SIG to get to work. Our SIG has embraced the opportunity to work with the APPD and the ACGME in seeking to redefine the adequacy of the continuity experience as part of the accreditation process for pediatric residency programs.

Our Continuity SIG Task Force has welcomed the addition of Cindy Ferrell from the Oregon Health Sciences Center and Lynn Garfunkel from the University of Rochester. The Task Force will meet October 12-14 in Orlando, Florida, and our objectives will be to flesh out ideas garnered from the 2007 SIG meeting regarding measuring the continuity experience, to set into motion a committee structure to move these ideas forward to a concrete and measurable form, and to plan our SIG meeting at the 2008 PAS meeting. We will describe the products that we develop at the Task Force meeting with the entire SIG membership and share our thoughts on possible next steps in minutes that will be posted on our listserv. Hopefully, our October efforts won’t come back to haunt us!

If you have creative ideas that you feel should be considered in this process, please feel free to contact John Olsson, SIG Chair, at olssonj@ecu.edu. Aloha!

Updated 11/1/07