Present: Drs. Rekedal, Pallant, Yazdani, McCaskill, Lopreiato, Yu, Weisse, Key, Rosen and Zalneraitis
- Certification as a Faculty Development Specialist: a proposal was made to collaborate with the APA Faculty Development SIG in offering workshops and other activities that might in aggregate constitute qualifications a specialist in faculty development. At least to start, it was felt that there should be a certificate sent to participants for the workshops, and there should be an attempt to provide CME. Joint workshops with the APA were suggested for Saturday of the Spring Meeting. Topics included:
-Educational research
-Teaching and teaching others to teach skills, groups, and in clinical settings
-Public policy
-Advocacy
-Career development as a program director
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Action: Send as proposal to Council of Task Force Chairs. If approved, ask for publication via APPD Newsletter, web page and Listserv.
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- Products for academic advancement: a general discussion resulted in a future plan to create opportunities for program directors to obtain recognition for promotion based on participation or attainment in key areas of importance in being a program director. Suggested areas of focus were: innovations in accreditation, improved certification methods and curriculum development as examples.
| Action: Reconsider this via upcoming teleconferences and TF meetings. |
- It was suggested that the Faculty Development Task Force be granted the responsibility for selecting two of the spring meeting workshops. The group felt that this would allow for the TF to actively participate in the focus of activities in the area of faculty development.
| Action: Present proposal to Council of TF Chairs for approval and recommendation to the Board, if the Council concurs. |
- Pediatrics 101: The APPD through the Faculty Development Task Force has been asked to partner with the AAP in revising and updating the now web-based product called Pediatrics 101. Dr. Bar-on has already begun this process. Drs. Clifton Yu, Martin Weisse and Quimby McKaskill have volunteered to work with her on this endeavor. Topic areas for focus, that were suggested, were: What do program directors want to get across? What appeals to medical students and might attract them to pediatrics?
| Action: The partnership with the AAP should include working with the Resident Section of the AAP, developing a strong 101 section on career options and emphasizing flexibility in pediatrics e.g. shared residencies and childcare options. There was some issue as to whether we are truly ready to promote the latter or if this should be a standard part of what we would expect for programs going forward. |
- New program director lunch: It was suggested that we bring back the new program director lunch for our spring meetings. The format would be to pair an experienced program director with a new program director for lunch, and to discuss challenges for the new director. There was some discussion as to how this would dovetail with the fall program.
| Action: Propose new program director lunch for all spring meetings to Council of TF Chairs. |
- Advocacy for pediatric GME: Dr. Rekedal proposed that the TF promote greater involvement of PD's in the political process to advocate for program support. Access and ways to partner in this process were discussed. It was agreed that this was likely to be a process that involved a broad effort of APPD, but that it should utilize that Faculty Development Task Force as integral to the process.
| Action: Inform the Board of the interest in promoting political activism in support of pediatric GME at all levels of government and regulatory oversight. |
- Administrative support: The TF group endorsed the APPD efforts in helping to define program support in the Pediatric Program Requirements. There was a note of caution with regard to unintended consequences of such rules, including the loss of programs due to their being cost prohibitive for institutions.
| Action: Inform the Board of TF support of this effort. |
- Listserv: The TF group felt that the APPD Listserv has not been "robust" in its activity. There was a discussion of the open versus closed Listserv. No conclusion was reached on that issue. There was a recommendation that the APPD consider a bulletin board technology, whereby program directors could go to a discussion section APPD web site and follow the "thread" of a discussion that was ongoing at that site and time with one of the bulletin board discussion groups.
| Action: Recommend a web-based discussion group format be developed for the APPD web site, and encourage membership to use it. |
Respectfully submitted,
Dr. Ed Zalneraitis
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