Advocacy Education at Pediatric
The American Academy of Pediatrics Community Pediatrics Training Initiative (CPTI) has compiled information received from more than a dozen residency programs about their advocacy curricula. Below are brief overviews of the program information that was collected, following each overview is a downloadable document with full program details. In addition you can download all of the programs here. * Programs are listed alphabetically by state.
Alabama- Georgia (AL-GA)
Phoenix Children’s/Maricopa Medical Center; Pheonix, Arizona
In an effort to ensure that residents gain knowledge, skills, and perspectives that lead to successful community level advocacy, the Phoenix Children’s Hospital/Maricopa Medical Center Pediatric Residency Program has found creative ways to make the Community Pediatrics Curriculum an important part of our training process. Download full Program Information here.
Stanford/Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital; Palo Alto, California
The resident training program at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (LPCH) provides residents with several opportunities to work in the community and to develop and practice advocacy skills. All pediatric residents participate in a month long Community Pediatrics and Child Advocacy rotation PGY1. During PGY2, residents gain more advocacy skills through the Adolescent Medicine and Advocacy Rotation. Both rotations have a longitudinal class advocacy project. Download full Program Information here.
University of California San Francisco; San Francisco California
The UCSF Pediatric Residency Program has several training options, one of which is the Pediatric Leadership for the Underserved (PLUS) program. The mission of the PLUS program is to train and inspire future leaders in pediatrics to identify and address the varied issues that impact the health of vulnerable children. Download full Program Information here.
University of Colorado; Denver Colorado
The Advocacy Curriculum at The Children’s Hospital is a resident-driven initiative which was implemented in 2008. Our curriculum is unique in that the residency program exists in the same city as the state capitol. This allows residents a first-hand opportunity to witness and participate in executive and legislative advocacy at the state level. Residents can meet with legislators and lobbyists and can attend state AAP conferences to learn how this organization interfaces with the state government. The curriculum focuses on 3 areas of advocacy intervention: Patient level, Community level and Policy Level. Download full Program Information here.
Hawaii- Maryland (HI-MD)
Children’s Memorial/Feinberg School of Medicine; Chicago, Illinois
The Children’s Memorial Pediatric Residency Program has several training options. One of which, is a second year 1 month community medicine and advocacy rotation requirement. This rotation incorporates; didactic /interactional sessions including a legislative session with the ILAAP, and principles of community advocacy. Download full Program Information here.
Mount Sinai Hospital; Chicago, Illinois
Mount Sinai Hospital’s Pediatric Residency Program has several advocacy training options which includes a four week mandatory block rotation for PL-1 year. The curriculum consists of readings, discussion, and literature searches to understand advocacy from “peds-parents-patients” in the office, to a public health model. Download full Program Information here.
University of Florida-Jacksonville; Jacksonville, Florida
The resident training program at University of Florida-Jacksonville requires residents to engage in several opportunities to work in the community, and to develop and practice advocacy skills. Community Pediatrics Education is required for all pediatric residents and is conducted in three distinct parts over the 3 year residency program. Download full Program Information here.
Massachusetts- New Jersey (MA-NJ)
Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital; Portland, Maine
The resident training program at Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center (BBCH) provides residents with several opportunities to work in the community, and to develop and practice advocacy skills. The format of the Community and Child Advocacy rotation at the BBCH is divided into self-study modules, a child abuse experience, and a mini project. Download full Program Information here.
Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education; Rochester, Minnesota
Pediatric residents in the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education (MSGME) training program receive advocacy and community health training in both block and longitudinal format. Much of the training is required but there are opportunities available for additional elective experiences as desired by trainees. Download full Program Information here.
Carolinas Medical Center (Levine Children’s Hospital); Charlotte, NC
At Carolinas Medical Center (Levine Children’s Hospital) the advocacy rotation is a required block month in the second year of training. Residents spend most of the block month at the Council for Children’s Rights, the premier child advocacy group in the region. Download full Program Information here.
New Mexico - South Carolina (NM-SC)
Columbia University Medical Center; New York, New York
The curricular goal of our Community Pediatrics training program is to broaden pediatric residency education to ensure that all residents acquire the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that will enable them to: work effectively as life-long advocates in partnership with the community, define the health problems of the children they serve, provide curative and preventive services, and evaluate the effectiveness of those services. Download full Program Information here.
Penn State University
Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Program; Hershey, Pennsylvania The Penn State University advocacy rotation is a two week block rotation in the intern year. There is a set of required reading material, a pretest, a posttest, and a writing assignment. Time is spent with different community agencies including (but not limited to) Children and Youth, WIC, Lead Screening Program, Head Start, Early Intervention, and the Children’s Resource Center which is the site at which children who have had suspected sexual abuse are evaluated. Download full Program Information here.
St Christopher’s Hospital for Children; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
St Christopher’s Hospital for Children has a Community Pediatrics and Child Advocacy rotation. This is a required 2 week block during intern year. Residents rotate at 12 community-based organizations and perform self evaluations of the rotation and themselves. Residents also have a mandatory longitudinal advocacy project that they must complete before graduation. Download full Program Information here.
Hasbro Children’s Hospital; Providence, Rhode Island
At Hasbro Children’s Hospital there is a required one-month intern rotation that has 4 basic components: learning about community and learning advocacy skills, experiencing the community by working along side AmeriCorps members and Ready-to-Learn Providence staff as they support families in early learning and quality care for young children, project creation: either in groups or individually, residents will identify an issue, research it in Providence, create an intervention, and write a CATCH grant application for funding it. Download full Program Information here.
South Dakota - Wyoming (SD-WY)
Vanderbilt; Nashville, Tennessee
All Vanderbilt Pediatric and Med-Peds residents have the opportunity to participate in a variety of advocacy training experiences. The residency program received an AAP CATCH training grant in 2008 to develop CORE (Community-Oriented Resident Education). CORE includes a community needs assessment component to help residents identify community needs, which then inform the design of individual or group advocacy projects. Download full Program Information here.
University of Utah Pediatric Residency; Salt Lake City, Utah
The resident training program at University of Utah provides residents with several opportunities to work in the community, and to develop and practice advocacy skills. We offer Advocacy Nights for all levels, these are informal gatherings of residents, usually at someone’s home to discuss advocacy topics, do an advocacy activity or watch a movie. Recent topics have included environmental health, refugee health and making dinner for families at Ronald McDonald House. Download full Program Information here.
If you would like for your program to be highlighted on the CPTI Web site or have additional questions please contact Monique Evelyn at: cpti@aap.org.
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