NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 350-351
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
San Antonio ◽  
Newborn Infants ◽  
Host Institution ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Texas Medical School ◽  
Education Courses ◽  
Cincinnati College

AAP, CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES, 1972-1973: The Continuing Education Courses in Pediatrics that have been arranged by the American Academy of Pediatrics are listed below, with the host institution and the course chairmen. 1. General Pediatrics, September 14-16, 1972, University of Texas Medical School, San Antonio, Texas, Dr. Stanley E. Crawford. 2. Newborn Infants, November 16-18, 1972, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, Dr. Irwin Light. 3. General Pediatrics, December 6-8, 1972, at New Orleans, Louisiana, American Academy of Pediatrics, Evanston, Illinois, Dr. Gerald E. Hughes.

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-174
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Perinatal Medicine ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Texas Medical School ◽  
Duke University ◽  
The University

Newborn Symposium: The Seventeenth Annual Angus M. McBryde Newborn Symposium will be held September 14 and 15, 1972, at Duke UniversityMedical Center, Durham, North Carolina. For information write to George W. Brumley, M.D., Division of Perinatal Medicine, Box 2911, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710. The American Academy of Pediatrics Continuing Education Course: The American Academy of Pediatrics will co-sponsor a continuing education course on General Pediatrics with the University of Texas Medical School, San Antonio, Texas, September 14, 15, and 16, 1972, under the chairmanship of Stanley E. Crawford, M.D.

Editorial: Those Educational Objectives

1981 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 195-195
Author(s):  
R. J. H.
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Educational Objectives ◽  
Task Forces ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics

The material Covered in PEDIATRICS IN REVIEW is, for the most part, based upon Educational Objectives developed by two Task Forces and accepted by the Coordinating Committee on Continuing Education and Recertification. Both Task Forces are made up of practicing pediatricians (at least 50%) and academicians, and are appointed by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Board of Pediatrics. The organization and respective responsibilities of the Task Forces are shown in the diagram. The activities of The Academy (PREP) and The Board are based upon these objectives. The Topics Task Force develops some 25 to 35 Educational Objectives dealing with the Topics selected for review each year.

News and Announcements

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 623-624
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Normative Data ◽  
Patient Management ◽  
Multiple Choice ◽  
Multiple Choice Questions ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Personal Assessment

PERSONAL ASSESSMENT FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION (PACE): Presented by the American Academy of Pediatrics, PACE is a series of six three-hour written selfscored, self-assessment examinations designed to keep physicians abreast of advances in the field of pediatrics. Each PACE packet contains multiple-choice questions and patient management problems along with answer keys, normative data, and bibliographic references. PACE packets will be mailed at three-month intervals over the next 18 months. The cost for the entire six-part series is $50 for nonmembers.

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-161
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Movement Disorders ◽  
Hospital Care ◽  
University Of New Mexico ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
The University

AAP Continuing Education Course: The American Academy of Pediatrics will co-sponsor a continuing education course, Problems in Neurology, with the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 8-10, 1973. Guest speakers will be Drs. Robert Eiben, Arnold Gold, Arnold Greenhouse, John Griffith, and Richard Schain. Topics will include infections of the nervous system, seizures, movement disorders, and surgical considerations, and discussions of diagnosis and therapy will have immediate application to the provision of office and hospital care.

Back in the Saddle Again

1986 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-3
Author(s):  
R. J. .H.
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South America ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pediatric Residents ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Wide Acceptance

After a 2-year absence as Editor, during which Dr McKay provided superb leadership as Editor of Pediatrics in Review, it is a pleasure for me to resume this role. It was my privilege in serving as President of the American Academy of Pediatrics to travel throughout the land. I was especially pleased and impressed with the wide acceptance of Pediatrics in Review as a major vehicle for the continuing education of the pediatrician. The circulation in now more than 21,000 in the United States, including all pediatric residents. This acceptance of the journal was also true in Central and South America, where PIR has been distributed, in Spanish, to more 15,000 additional pediatricians for the last few years.

Increasing the Protection of Newborn Infants in Cars

PEDIATRICS ◽  
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.

News and Announcements

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 302-304
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
School Health ◽  
San Antonio ◽  
Family Physicians ◽  
School Age ◽  
Certification Examination ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Allergy And Immunology ◽  
Health Association ◽  
Certifying Examination

CERTIFICATION EXAMINATION: The next Certifying Examination of The American Board of Allergy and Immunology, A Conjoint Board of The American Board of Internal Medicine and The American Board of Pediatrics, will be held on Tuesday, October 21, 1975. Registration will open on January 1, 1975 and close on May 31, 1975. Application materials will be available beginning in December 1974 from the Board Office. CARING FOR THE SCHOOL-AGE CHILD: Continuing education course co-sponsored by the Subcommittee on School Health of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American School Health Association, San Antonio, Texas, March 17-19.

Currency, Competency, and Credibility: New Directions for Pediatric Continuing Education

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 369-369
Author(s):  
MARTIN H. SMITH
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Pediatric Care ◽  
Search Committee ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
New Directions

One of the historic cornerstones of the American Academy of Pediatrics has been the development of educational programs designed to assure the highest quality of pediatric care. Although our commitment to this goal remains unwavering, changes in the manner in which pediatric care is—and will be—rendered demand that we constantly look for new and better ways to satisfy the educational needs of the membership. Toward that end, the Academy recently has embarked on a nationwide search for a director of the Department of Education at the Academy's Elk Grove Village, IL, headquarters. A search committee comprised of Blair E. Batson, MD, Floyd W. Denny, Jr, MD, and Doris A. Howell, MD, has been appointed to pursue this effort.

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION FOR PEDIATRICIANS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-140
Author(s):  
William Gene Klingberg ◽  
John Bailey ◽  
William Reed Bell ◽  
McLemore Birdsong ◽  
Arthur C. Cherry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Continuing Medical Education ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Legitimate Concern ◽  
Optimal Health

Recognizing the paramout importance of optimal health care for all children as a legitimate concern of pediatricians and of all society, the American Academy of Pediatrics reiterates its long-standing commitment to pediatric education in its broadest sense including undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education. Several approaches to assure the quality of such care, such as peer review, evidence of participation in continuing education activities, and recertification have been suggested by a variety of governmental and other nonprofessional agencies. The Academy believes strongly that such undertakings must remain the responsibility of appropriate medical organizations and that the appropriate organization in all affairs related to the health of children is the American Academy of Pediatrics. The Academy desires, therefore, to assist its members in maintaining and improving their expertise and in preparing them to demonstrate their ability to respond to the demands of a changing society. Recognizing that society will require demonstration of expertise and ability to maintain quality of health care, the Academy has assumed the initiative in developing methods for the determination of competency. Vital to the maintenance of such competency is the level of continuing education. The Academy reaffirms its determination to assist the pediatrician in maintaining and demonstrating his competence.

Prophylaxis and Treatment of Neonatal Gonococcal Infections

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 1047-1048
Author(s):  
Sydney Segal ◽  
Walter B. Anyan ◽  
Reba M. Hill ◽  
Ralph E. Kauffman ◽  
Howard Mofenson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Disease Control ◽  
Silver Nitrate ◽  
Nitrate Solution ◽  
Newborn Infants ◽  
Silver Nitrate Solution ◽  
Gonococcal Infection ◽  
Ophthalmic Ointment ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Primary Agent

The Center for Disease Control (CDC), after consultation with a panel of experts, has revised its recommendations for prevention of gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum. These recommendations now state, "ophthalmic ointment or drops containing tetracycline or erythromycin or a 1% silver nitrate solution" are effective and acceptable.1-3 This is a change from previous recommendations which highlighted silver nitrate as the primary agent for prophylaxis.4 The American Academy of Pediatrics' committees support these recommendations. The prevalence of largely asymptomatic genital gonococcal infection in pregnant women and the occurrence of gonococcal ophthalmia in untreated infants (estimated at 28%)5 born to infected women indicate the need for continued prophylaxis for all newborn infants.

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