Guidelines and checklists for short-term missions in global pediatric surgery: Recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics Delivery of Surgical Care Global Health Subcommittee, American Pediatric Surgical Association Global Pediatric Surgery Committee, Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Committee on International Education and Service, and American Pediatric Surgical Nurses Association, Inc. Global Health Special Interest Group

The following directory contains more than 80 organizations that recruit US pediatricians for both long- and short-term service opportunities overseas. This list was compiled by the staff of the Task Force on International Child Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Facts concerning each program were obtained through correspondence and telephone interviews with organization representatives. We have tried to make the list as complete and current as possible. Anyone knowing of a service organization that has been omitted is encouraged to supply the necessary information to:

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Increasing the Protection of Newborn Infants in Cars

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.70.1.21 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 70 (1) ◽

pp. 21-25

Author(s):

Edward R. Christophersen ◽

Margaret A. Sullivan

Keyword(s):

American Academy ◽

Newborn Infants ◽

Hospital Staff ◽

Control Group ◽

Short Term ◽

American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽

Car Safety ◽

Staff Person ◽

Experimental Group

Recently the American Academy of Pediatrics instituted a major campaign ("The First Ride—A Safe Ride") in order to encourage all parents to use an infant restraint seat for their newborn's first ride in an automobile—the ride home from the hospital. In the present study the effect of the behavior of the hospital staff on parents' use of infant restraint seats was examined. This study involved 30 mother-infant pairs who were selected sequentially from an obstetrics unit and randomly assigned to two groups. A control group was discharged from the obstetrics unit with no particular emphasis on car safety and no loaner restraint seat available. An experimental group was offered a loaner restraint seat at the time of discharge, with a staff person demonstrating how to put the infant into the restraint seat, how to carry the infant in the seat out to the car, and how to fasten the restraint seat in the automobile with the auto lap belt. Correct use of the loaner restraint seat on the first ride home was observed in 67% of the experimental mothers and in none (0%) of the control mothers. Although this difference was no longer significant at four- to six-week follow-up this study points out the short-term impact that hospital staff can have on the parents' use of restraint seats. Additional techniques are needed to maintain parents' use of restraint seats throughout childhood.

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Quality and Extent of Locum Tenens Coverage in Pediatric Surgical Practices

The American Surgeon ◽

10.1177/000313481508100428 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 81 (4) ◽

pp. 377-380 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Tracy L. Nolan ◽

Jessica J. Kandel ◽

Don K. Nakayama

Keyword(s):

Pediatric Surgery ◽

Surgical Care ◽

Full Time ◽

Short Term ◽

Community Based ◽

Surgical Workforce ◽

Strongly Agree ◽

Do So

The prevalence and quality of locum tenens coverage in pediatric surgery have not been determined. An Internet-based survey of American Pediatric Surgical Association members was conducted: 1) practice description; 2) use and frequency of locum tenens coverage; 4) whether the surgeon provided such coverage; and 5) Likert scale responses (strongly disagree, disagree, neutral, agree, strongly agree) to statements addressing its acceptability and quality (two x five contingency table and χ2 analyses, significance at P < 0.05). Three hundred sixteen of 1163 members (27.2% response rate) responded. One-fourth (24.1%) used a locum tenens regularly. Reasons were long-term inability to recruit a full-time surgeon (35.2%) and short-term vacancies (32.4%). One-fifth (20.4%) did locum tenens work; one-fourth (27.0%) plan to do so in the future. Two-thirds (64.2%) believe that surgical care in a locum tenens situation does not provide the same level of care as a full-time community-based surgeon. Most support locum tenens for short-term coverage (87.3%) and recruitment problems (72.1%), but not long-term vacancies (38.8%; P < 0.001) or permanent coverage (27.0%; P < 0.001). Locum tenens coverage is an established feature of pediatric surgery. Most view it as a stopgap solution to the surgical workforce shortage.

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