Task Forces
The APPD has five main task forces which focus on areas as listed below. APPD members are welcome to join a task force - there is no additional fee, requirement, or specific skill needed. Join in a task force during the annual meeting, or contact the leadership below for ongoing activities between meetings to get involved. To review task force activities, please see reports found in the Newsletter(s) and Annual Report(s).
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The charge to the APPD Curriculum Task Force is to ensure that the APPD takes a lead role in promoting and developing a training curriculum that meets RRC requirements, prepares residents for certification and, most importantly, reflects the current needs of children in our society. This task force addresses the infrastructure for curriculum development, spanning the continuum from medical school through CME.
CURRICULUM TASK FORCE LEADERSHIP
Karin Hillenbrand MD - Task Force Chair
Program Director
East Carolina Univ Schl of Med, Dept of Peds
Brody Building 3E-139
Greenville, NC 27834
Phone: 252/744-3041
FAX: 252/744-8377
Email:hillenbrandk@ecu.edu
Becky Blankenburg, MD, MPH - Vice Chair
Associate Program Director
Stanford University Pediatric Residency Prog
c/o Med Staff Ofc, LPCH, 725 Welch Rd
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Phone: 650/497-8979
FAX: 650/497-8228
Email:rblanke@stanford.edu
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.academicpeds.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)
The APPD Evaluation Task Force is charged with developing goals with measurable objectives that can be achieved in a 3-year time period to assist pediatric residency programs in improving their evaluation procedures. Such procedures may include evaluation and feedback to individual trainees and faculty, as well as encompassing curricular or programmatic evaluation issues
EVALUATION TASK FORCE LEADERSHIP
Suzette Caudle, MD - Task Force Chair
Program Director
Carolina Medical Ctr, Dept of Peds
PO Box 32861, 4th Floor, MEB
Charlotte, NC 28232
Tel: 704/355-3156
Fax: 704/355-5429
Email: suzette.caudle@carolinashealthcare.org
Kathleen Bartlett MD - Task Force Vice Chair
Associate Program Director - Peds Res Training
Duke University Medical Center, DUMC Box 3127
Durham, NC 27710
Phone: 919-684-2356
Fax: 919-681-5825
Email: katy.bartlett@duke.edu
Evaluation Tools
1) 360 degrees
Cover letter
Nursing Staff
Nursing Evaluations
By Nurses
House Staff Inpatient Performance
House Staff Outpatient Performance
Direct Observation
Direct Observation Outpatient
Direct Observation Outpatient 2
Peer
Patient Survey 1
Patient Survey 2
Patient Survey 3
2) Activity Specific Tools
Residency Presentation of Case Management
Continuity Clinic
Documentation
Mock Code
Sign Out Rounds Checklist
Work Rounds Checklist
3) Cumulative Tools
6 Month Evaluation
6 Month Evaluation 2
Block Rotation Resident Evaluation
Block Rotation Resident Evaluation 2
4) Other Tools
Commendation Card
Faculty Evaluation
Faculty Evaluation 2
Evaluation of Rotation by Resident
Evaluation of Rotation by Resident 2
Annual Residency Program Evaluation
Early Warning Card
The APPD Task Force on Faculty and Professional Development proposes APPD programs and activities that promote the professional development, educational scholarship, and career success of pediatric residency program directors. It also addresses ways that APPD can help pediatric program directors to develop and improve faculty teaching skills at their institutions and in their region.
Faculty and Professional Development Task Force: Three Areas of Focus
FACULTY AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TASK FORCE LEADERSHIP
Clifton E. Yu MD - Task Force Chair
Program Director
National Capital Consortium Peds Residency Prgm
8901 Wisconsin Ave
Bethesda, MD 20889
Phone: 202/782-1899
FAX: 301/295-5657
Email:clifton.yu@amedd.army.mil
Nancy Spector, MD - Task Force Vice Chair
Assoc Program Director, Peds
St. Christopher's Hospital for Children
Erie Avenue at Front Street
Philadelphia, PA 19134-1095
Phone: 215/427-8846
Fax: 215/427-4805
Email: nancy.spector@drexelmed.edu
The APPD Learning Technology Task Force is charged with the responsibility of identifying and evaluating technology, including software, computers, personal digital assistants, telecommunication devices, and wireless technologies that support training and education of pediatric residents. Areas of particular importance include technologies that assist in the measurement of the ACGME competencies; promote self-directed learning; and enable training to be more efficient and cost-effective.
LEARNING TECHNOLOGY TASK FORCE LEADERSHIP
Joel Forman, MD - Task Force Chair
Mount Sinai Medical Center of NY
Department of Pediatrics
One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1512
New York, NY 10029
Phone: 212/241-6934
Fax: 212/241-4309
E-Mail: joel.forman@mssm.edu
R. Franklin Trimm MD - Task Force Vice Chair
Professor of Pediatrics
Univ of South Alabama Peds Res Program
1700 Center Street
Mobile, AL 36604
Phone: 251-415-1087
Fax: 251-415-1387
E-Mail: rftrimm@usouthal.edu
The charge to the APPD Research and Scholarship Task Force is to establish an organizational framework that will promote the APPD (or its individual members) to conduct research projects that will contribute knowledge to the APPD or to the field of pediatric postgraduate medical education. Such research projects may include study of program operations, as well as projects designed to study novel curricular or evaluation instruments that will allow programs to address and measure ACGME competencies. For details on submitting a survey for review by the Research and Scholarship Task Force, please refer to the APPD Research and Scholarship Task Force Survey Policy
RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP TASK FORCE LEADERSHIP
Linda Waggoner-Fountain, MD - Task Force Chair Heather McPhillips, MD, MPH - Task Force Vice Chair |
APPD Task Force Leadership
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Council of Task Force Chairs |
Javier Gonzalez del Rey, MD, Chair |
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Patricia Hicks, MD, APPD President-Elect |
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Curriculum |
Karin Hillenbrand, MD, Chair |
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Evaluation |
Suzette Caudle, MD, Chair |
suzette.caudle@carolinashealthcare.org |
Faculty and Professional Development |
Clifton E.Yu, MD, Chair |
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Learning Technology |
Joel Forman, MD, Chair Franklin Trimm, MD, Vice Chair |
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Research and Scholarship Task Force |
Linda Waggoner-Fountain,MD, Chair |