TASK FORCES

CURRICULUM TASK FORCE
Toolshed of Curricula

Competencies
1.
Pedialink and eQIPP: Self and practice assessment tools. The quality improvement program (eQIPP) has various diseases to review (ADHD, ASTHMA). This costs the program to register. Pedialink is a CME tracker/self assesser. Good habits for residents to get into! Gets at PBLandI and Systems based Practice, as well as professionalism. www.pedialink.org
RATED: 4/5 on ease of use (costs and slightly hard to get registered), 5/5 on quality

2. Tuft’s Health Care Institute’s Online Learning Campus: This organization is dedicated to teaching the concepts of practice based learning and improvement and systems based practice to health care practitioners. Offers modules and Applied Learning Exercises (AppLEs). Predominantly adult cases, though. http://thci.org
RATED: 4/5 on ease of use, 5/5 on quality (1 reviewer)


Critical Care
1. Critical Care Site: This contains educational modules and web based quizzes. “Very helpful and easy to use”. Gives print-outs to residents on what they have completed, therefore residents can be self-directed in their learning with good documentation! www.sccm.org
RATED: 5/5 on ease of implementation, 5/5 on quality (2 reviewers)


General Pediatrics
1. APA Guidelines: Ready to use curriculum builder! Can create documents that are specific to your program. (Pointer…RRC requires goals and objectives to be level of training specific…PDs must add) On-line and extremely helpful. “First reference a new program director should browse”. http://www.ambpeds.org/egweb/
RATED: 5/5 on ease of use/implementation, 5/5 on quality (5 reviewers)
NOTE: APA GUIDELINES TEAM REPORTS THAT IN MAY 2005 THERE WILL BE ADDITIONAL TOOLS ON THIS SITE FOR ROTATION PLANNING, FOR PROGRAM PLANNING, AND ALSO TUTORIALS THAT PROGRAM DIRECTORS CAN USE FOR FACULTY DEVELOPMENT.

2. Bright Futures: Two sites available: www.brightfutures.org (Georgetown) and www.brightfutures.aap.org (AAP). Bright futures is a philosophy, a vision and a set of expert guidelines for giving a practical developmental approach to providing health supervision to children. Can be utilized in continuity clinic.
RATED: 4.5/5 on ease of implementation, 5/5 on quality (2 reviewers)

3. Pediacases: Cases on growth development and adolescent issues for teachers.
www.pediacases.org

4. Pediatrics in Practice: This is a site that has modules to teach the “core concepts” of Bright Futures. The core concepts coincide nicely with the competencies. They are Communication, Partnership, Education, Advocacy, Time Management and Health Promotion. www.pediatricsinpractice.org
RATED: 5/5 on ease of implementation, 5/5 on quality (2 reviewers)


Genetics
1. Genetic Clinics (NIH): Can search by disease and/or locus. Can’t search under clinical signs and symptoms, but they do have a wide range of info on individual disease. www.geneclinics.org
RATED: 5/5 on ease of use, 5/5 on quality (2 reviewers)

2. Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man: A site with information on genetic diseases, as well as a search function for clinical signs and symptoms. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?b=OMIM
RATED: 5/5 on ease of use, 5/5 on quality (2 reviewers)


Neonatology
1. Neonatology on the Web: A general site with a variety of information including a set of teaching files that are indexed to specific topics. www.neonatology.org
RATED: 5/5 on ease of use/implementation, 5/5 on quality (1 reviewer)




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