The Child with a Handicap

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 561-561
Author(s):  
ERIC DENHOFF
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Handicapped Child ◽  
Pediatric Practice ◽  
Past President ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Show Business ◽  
The Right

Occasionally, a simple, heart-warming document appears unexpectedly to win the public's heart. In the parlance of show business, such a presentation is called a "sleeper," i.e., a film or play that makes a hit. The Child with a Handicap, edited by Dr. Martmer, a past-president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, deserves the right to be called a "sleeper." Those of us who devote a major part of our practice to the handicapped child are often exposed to articles and textbooks which more often complicate an already complicated subject. The Child with a Handicap helps neutralize material which tends towards frightening pediatricians away from knowing more about an important phase of pediatric practice.

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1046-1048
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Iowa City ◽  
Fall Meeting ◽  
Pediatric Practice ◽  
University Of Iowa ◽  
Children's Hospital ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Iowa College ◽  
The University ◽  
Guest Speakers

Course In Pediatrics And Fall Meeting of the University of Iowa and the Iowa chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics will take place in Iowa City, Iowa, September 9 and 10, 1970. Guest speakers will be Drs. Robert Haggerty, Judson Randolph, and Douglas Johnstone. For information write David L. Silber, M.D., Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52240. A Conference On Pediatric Practice will be presented by the Denver Children's Hospital at The Lodge at Vail, Vail, Colorado, Septemben 17-19.

Residency Training and Continuing Medical Education in School Health

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 495-496
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Graduate Medical Education ◽  
Continuing Medical Education ◽  
School Health ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Pediatric Practice ◽  
Graduate Medical ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics

Children between the ages of 5 and 18 spend a significant amount of their time in school. School health is a vital part of pediatric practice and an important concern for pediatric graduate medical education. There are few substantiated data, however, to suggest that residents entering pediatric practice or academic medicine are exposed to school health in a significant way. Many pediatricians, upon entering practice, find that they are consulted by school systems and parents whose children have problems related to school. Pediatricians find themselves unprepared for this new role and express the need for postgraduate education in school health.1-4 The American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Pediatric Education5 and the most recent report from the Pediatric Residency Review Committee have both underscored the appropriateness and importance of education in school health as an important part of the residency curriculum.6 The American Academy of Pediatrics believes that education in school health should be an important part of graduate medical education for pediatric residents and of continuing medical education for practicing pediatricians. Many advances in pediatrics that affect the well-being of the child relate directly to the school setting. Increased attention to federal legislation (Section 504 of PL 93-112, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; parts B and H of PL 102-119, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), health education including education about the prevention of drug and alcohol abuse and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, new approaches to screening and health services in the schools, immunization requirements, physical fitness, and knowledge about the school environment—all are important aspects of school health and areas in which many residents and/or pediatricians have had little or no training or experience.

PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1952 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
PAUL W. BEAVEN
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Private Practice ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Public Welfare ◽  
Atlantic City ◽  
Pediatric Practice ◽  
Major Objective ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Pediatric Education

IT IS now, 21 years since the American Academy of Pediatrics was founded. It is not inappropriate at this time to call attention to this significant anniversary of our birth. In June 1930, at Detroit, its organization was completed and officers were elected. A year later, the first annual meeting was held in Atlantic City. It was made clear at that time that pediatricians were now convinced that a society was needed whose principal objective would be not solely to promote social and scientific needs of its members, but which would exist primarily to promote child welfare. The means by which this major objective would be gained would be to raise the standards of pediatric education and pediatric research; to encourage better pediatric training in medical schools and hospitals; to promote scientific contributions to pediatric literature; and to relate the private practice of pediatrics to the larger field of the welfare of all children. The society should cooperate with others whose objectives were similar, but would he the democratic forum for pediatric thought and endeavor. Following is a quotation from the constitution adopted at the first meeting: "The object of the Academy shall be to foster and stimulate interest in pediatrics and correlate all aspects of the work for the welfare of children which properly come within the scope of pediatrics. The Academy shall endeavor to accomplish the following purposes: to maintain the highest possible standards of pediatric education in medical schools and hospitals, in pediatric practice, and in research; ... to maintain the dignity and efficiency of pediatric practice in its relationship to public welfare; to promote publications and encourage contributions to medical and scientific literature pertaining to pediatrics."

Raising Pediatric Fees

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 1011-1013
Author(s):  
JAMES L. WILSON
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Important Influence ◽  
Good Thing ◽  
Pediatric Practice ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
Professional Teacher

This letter is written to support the idea that it would be a good thing for the children of this country if pediatricians raised their fees. This bald and mercenary-like statement can be made particularly by me without question of a selfish motive, and I make it only to emphasize certain trends in pediatric practice which I think are not to the advantage of the public or of the pediatricians. Most pediatricians work too hard and see too many patients. I assume the privilege of a confirmed professional teacher of pediatricians with a background approaching 30 years, to "point with pride" and "view with alarm" certain trends in pediatric practice. I believe we can name hardly any more important influence for the well-being of the children in this country than the modern development of the practice of pediatrics as influenced by the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

FRANK H. DOUGLASS, M.D. 1899-1965

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-498
Author(s):  
E. H. CHRISTOPHERSON
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Washington State ◽  
State University ◽  
Small Community ◽  
Past President ◽  
Washington State University ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics

FRANK H. DOUGLASS, M.D., of Seattle, Washington, thirty-fourth President of the American Academy of Pediatrics (1963-64) and the immediate past President, died unexpectedly in Seattle on the morning of January 22, 1965, at the age of sixty-five years. Born in Sedro Woolley, a small community about 65 miles north of Seattle, a son of a pharmacist and one of a family of ten children, Dr. Douglass graduated in Pharmacy from Washington State University in 1919.

On the Right Track?: Future Directions of USATF Coaching Education

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Lawrence W. Judge ◽  
Terry Crawford ◽  
Kimberly J. Bodey
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Formal Training ◽  
Sport Organizations ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Coaching Education ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Sponsored Programs ◽  
Sport Activities ◽  
The Right ◽  
High Level

Approximately 47 million boys and girls between the ages of 5 and 18 years take part in sport activities each year, primarily in agency and community sponsored programs (Ewing & Seefeldt, 2002). The high level of participation requires many youth sport organizations to rely on volunteers, without whom there can be no programs. Yet volunteers receive little formal training to prepare them for their respective coaching endeavors (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2001; Gilbert et al., 2001; Gould, et al., 1990; Weiss & Hayashi, 1996).

AGE LIMITS OF PEDIATRICS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-463
Author(s):  
M. Harr Jennison ◽  
Allan B. Coleman ◽  
Richard B. Feiertag ◽  
Robert B. Kugel ◽  
William B. Forsyth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Extensive Review ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Pediatric Practice ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Official Policy ◽  
Growth Development ◽  
Age Limits

In 1938 the American Academy of Pediatrics took formal action and defined the age limits of pediatric practice as follows (Journal of Pediatrics, 13:127 and 13:266, 1938): The practice of pediatrics begins at birth and extends well into adolescence and in most cases it will terminate between the sixteenth and eighteenth year of life. In 1969, the Council on Pediatric Practice asked the Executive Board to up date this statement, and the Executive Board referred it to the Council on Child Health. After extensive review of several statements proposed by the Committee on Youth, the Council on Child Health recommended the following statement, which has been approved by the Executive Committee of the Academy for publication as official policy of the American Academy of Pediatrics. PEDIATRICS The purview of pediatrics includes the growth, development, and health of the child and therefore begins in the period prior to birth when conception is apparent. It continues through childhood and adolescence when the growth and developmental processes are generally completed. The responsibility of pediatrics may therefore begin during pregnancy and usually terminates by 21 years of age.

Informed Consent, Parental Permission, and Assent in Pediatric Practice

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 314-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Developmentally Appropriate ◽  
Legal Obligation ◽  
Pediatric Practice ◽  
Medical Interventions ◽  
Parental Permission ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Decision Making Capacity

A re-analysis of informed consent leads to the identification of important limitations and problems in its application to pediatric practice. Two additional concepts are needed: parental permission and patient assent. The American Academy of Pediatrics believes that in most cases, physicians have an ethical (and legal) obligation to obtain parental permission to undertaken recommended medical interventions. In many circumstances, physicians should also solicit a patient assent when developmentally appropriate. In cases involving emancipated or mature minors with adequate decision-making capacity, or when otherwise permitted by law, physicians should seek informed consent directly from patients.

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