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APPD Research Task Force

Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA
April 27, 2006

Minutes

Present: John Co, Jerry Rushton, Linda Waggoner-Fountain, Heather McPhillips, George Johnson, Emmett Schmidt, Linda Tewksbury, Hilary Haftel, Robert McGregor, Lynn Gardner
  1. Collaboration with COMSEP: Linda Tewksbury, MD, Co-director of the pediatric clerkship at NYU and member of COMSEP, attended our task force meeting. We discussed potential areas for collaboration. One area that intrigued many was devising a better system of “sign out” between medical schools and residency programs regarding new interns. Specifically, many felt this many help with identifying areas of strength and for improvement, perhaps for starting an individualized learning plan. We agreed to continue to develop this idea after the spring meeting.
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  2. Survey Policy Update and Feedback: John Co summarized the surveys that have gone through the survey process thus far. The first survey on procedural training had a high response rate (70 to 80%), the results of which were presented at a platform presentation at PAS. The second survey on the APA Education Guidelines had a response rate of 60 to 70%. The third survey, on international experiences and education in pediatric residency training, was set to be distributed after the meeting. There was a healthy discussion on the survey approval process. Most agreed that the policy should encourage surveys rather than be exclusionary.
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  3. APPD Website and Review of Projects/Abstracts for Posting: The APPD Board has discussed the idea of having a section of the revised APPD website devoted to posting of abstracts and papers related to pediatric residency education. Board members have discussed whether these postings need to go through a formal approval process, and whether the Research Task Force should play a role. Many task force members debated on whether the submissions for posting would represent a biased sample, perhaps lower quality work that was not accepted for publication elsewhere. All agreed that abstracts of funded Special Projects Grants should be posted.
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  4. Representative needed for Research Advisory Board for Bright Futures oral health promotion project: This project was presented by Dr. Co.
  5. Annual/Biennial survey of status of Pediatric Resident Training: Many task force members believed that established a regular pre-meeting survey may be an effective method of surveying membership on hot-button issues. This will be suggested to the APPD Board.
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  6. Workshops for next year: Dr. Co distributed copies of a workshop he has helped lead at the PAS meetings regarding publishing educational research. Many in the group felt this would be useful to hear at APPD as well.
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