Spring 2008 Newsletter Article
Members of the Education Committee have been working on several projects and welcome your input at our Education Committee Meeting in Hawaii on Sunday May 4th from 11am-12:30 pm in the South Pacific Ballroom 1. Lindsey Lane and Rob McGregor will lead a workshop-like activity that will allow you to get actively involved.
One of the main goals of the Education Committee is to foster collaboration among pediatric educators working in different settings and with different levels of trainees. Thanks to the many APA, COMSEP and APPD members who completed a needs assessment designed to gauge interest in a tri-sponsored meeting solely devoted to promoting educational excellence in pediatrics. There was an overwhelming positive vote from the 464 who responded. We envision this “Pediatric Educational Excellence Across the Continuum Conference” (PEEAC) to be the first in a series of annual meetings to enable pediatric educators teaching different levels of learners (students, residents, fellows) and in different clinical settings including the ED, primary care in either academic or community based setting or inpatient or critical care unit to collaborate and learn from each other. We envision that this conference will offer tracks focusing on different topic areas/levels of teaching experience and the opportunity to collaboratively plan pilot projects to introduce new curricula to improve education across the pediatric continuum. Planning timeline for the PEEAC conference: Fall 2009.
In addition we also have been working with COMSEP and APPD members to plan an “Education Summit” to determine how we can best enhance educational experiences and develop more uniform learning objectives, competencies and evaluation strategies for fourth year students focusing on a career in pediatrics. Please respond to a survey that we will circulate to determine what you perceive to be gaps in current 4th year medical student education.
The APA Education Committee sponsored a meeting for Pediatric Hospitalist Fellowship Directors in Washington DC on January 27th to define a uniform curriculum and standards for training fellows in Pediatric Hospitalist Medicine. Fellowship Directors from seven institutions across the US and Canada attended. The “Academic Goals and Suggested Objectives for General Pediatrics Fellows: A Resource for Fellowship Programs” from the APA Academic General Pediatric Fellowship Accreditation Project is being used as a blue print to guide the project. A model curriculum will be generated by the fellowship directors and made available on the Education Committee webpage of the APA website after the PAS meeting this spring.
Please contact me if you have any agenda ideas for the Education Committee meeting in Hawaii or thoughts in general about how the Education Committee could better serve you as an educator.
Mary Ottolini MD, MPH- Mottolin@cnmc.org
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Members of
the Education Committee Executive Group and the FD
Program Executive Committee
| Education
Committee Task Forces: |
Faculty Development
Certification Program Task Forces: |
Awards
E-Connections
Educational Resources
Educational Research
Humanism Workshop
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FD Program Marketing and Communications
FD Enrollment and Certification
FD Curriculum Planning
FD Project Facilitation
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| Name |
Email |
Roles |
| Baldwin, Constance |
constance_baldwin@urmc.rochester.edu |
FD Exec Comm Co-Chair |
| Bar-on, Miriam |
mbar@lumc.edu |
Awards (co-leader), FD Curr Plan |
| Barratt, Michelle |
Michelle.S.Barratt@uth.tmc.edu |
Educ Research (co-leader), FD Proj Facil |
| Chandran, Latha |
lchandran@notes.cc.sunysb.edu |
FD Exec Comm, Co-Chair; FD Curr Plan (leader) |
| D'Alessandro, Donna |
donna-dalessandro@uiowa.edu |
FD Market/Comm |
| Devries, Jeff |
devriesj@oakwood.org |
FD Enroll/Certif |
| Ferrell, Cindy |
ferrellc@ohsu.edu |
FD Curr Plan |
| Gaebler, Charlene |
cgaebler@mail.mcw.edu |
FD Exec Comm, E-Conn (co-leader), Proj Faci |
| Garfunkel, Lynn |
lynn.garfunkel@viahealth.org |
Educ Resources (co-leader), FD Proj Facil |
| Gusic, Maryellen |
mgusic@psu.edu |
FD Exec Comm, E-Conn (co-leader), FD Enroll/Certif (leader) |
| Johnson, Carl |
carl.johnson@mssm.edu |
Educ Research (co-leader) |
| Keller, David |
kellerd@ummhc.org |
FD Exec Comm; FD Market/Comm (leader) |
| Konopasek, Lyuba |
LYK2003@med.cornell.edu |
Awards (co-leader), Humanism wksp (co-leader); FD Market/Comm |
| Kuo, Alice |
AKuo@mednet.ucla.edu |
FD Exec Comm; FD Proj Facil (co-leader) |
| Lopreiato, Joe |
jlopreiato@simcen.usuhs.mil |
FD Exec Comm; FD Enroll/Certif |
| McCurdy, Fred |
fred.mccurdy@ttuhsc.edu |
FD Enroll/Certif |
| Niebuhr, Virginia |
vniebuhr@utmb.edu |
FD Exec Comm; Market/Comm; Humanism wksp |
| Ottolini, Mary |
mottolin@cnmc.org |
Educ Comm Chair |
| Rauch, Daniel |
daniel.rauch@med.nyu.edu |
Educ Resources (co-leader), FD Curr Plan |
| Rider, Elizabeth |
elizabeth_rider@hms.harvard.edu |
Humanism wksp (co-leader) |
| Risko, Wanessa |
wanessa.risko@childrens.harvard.edu |
FD Proj Facil (co-leader) |
| Trimm, Franklin |
ftrimm@jaguar1.usouthal.edu |
Educ Resources (co-leader), FD Curr Plan |
| Zenni, Elisa |
elisa.zenni@jax.ufl.edu |
Humanism wksp |
EDUCATION COMMITTEE TASKS
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Develop an annual educational
agenda for APA and submit to Board for approval
Create task forces to implement annual agenda and
appoint leaders for key activities
Provide follow-up on past projects: e.g., support
continuing development, evaluation and dissemination
of the Educational Guidelines for Pediatric
Residency
Lead the APA Faculty Development Program in collaboration
with the Faculty Development SIG
Participate in planning for the Academic Pediatric
Generalist fellowship accreditation program
Choose topic, submit abstract and conduct committee-sponsored
workshop for PAS
Communicate with larger membership of the Education
Committee about new opportunities and activities
Write articles on current activities for the APA
newsletter
Plan and maintain committee webpage on the APA
website
Review abstracts for PAS workshops
Review abstracts for PAS presentations
Assist with selection of the annual APA Teaching
Award (to programs) and Young Investigator Award
Choose annual winner of Helfer Award (to individuals,
based on submitted abstracts in the education domain)
Oversee Miller/Sarkin Mentoring Award process
Represent the APA at the AAP Committee on Pediatric
Education (COPE)
Plan for spring PAS meeting:
Report to the Board
Educ committee meeting agenda
Committee-sponsored workshop
FD Program activities |
APA Faculty Development Program
The mission of the APA Faculty Development
Program is to assist the membership in developing themselves as productive,
advancing and fulfilled faculty members and to increase the quality, status
and visibility of pediatric educators in academia. The program operates the Educational
Scholars Program and E-Connections.
Updated 04/07/08 |
