Training Resources

CPTI Resources

Community Pediatrics Goals
The Community Pediatrics Training Initiative at the AAP, has brought together a Competencies Workgroup.  This group, under the guidance of Ben Hoffman MD, Residency Program Director at the University of New Mexico, is developing a resource to aid residency programs in meeting the ACGME competencies in relationship to community pediatrics advocacy goals and objectives, which will be connected with the APA Educational Guidelines. Please click here to view the 8 goal areas on which we will base this resource. 

CPTI Evaluation Toolkit
The CPTI Evaluation Toolkit contains resources to evaluate residency training experiences in community pediatrics. The evaluation instruments were initially gathered from ten residency programs funded by the Dyson Foundation. While many of the instruments are designed to evaluate learners, some of the tools will assist in gathering information that would be useful for program evaluation. Please click here to access this toolkit.

Pediatric Education in Community and Office Settings (Starter Kit for Community Preceptors)
Starter Kit for Community Preceptors is offered to the practicing pediatrician who wants to provide a hands-on experience in an office setting for a medical student or resident. The Starter Kit provides practical tips, information, resources, and activities for pediatricians, residency program directors, and clerkship directors to use at every stage of community-based training for students and residents. The tool includes information on developing your office-based teaching program, your academic portfolio, and a variety of topical resources for quick reference. To access this document, please visit the Practice Management page.

Issue Brief on Resident and Faculty Perspectives on Community Pediatrics Training
The Dyson Initiative National Evaluation (DINE) is designed to assess the effectiveness of the first phase of the CPTI. This phase focused on innovative residency training experiences in partnership with community-based organizations at 10 residency programs funded by the Dyson Foundation. DINE has recently released a brief entitled "Enhancing Community Pediatrics Training: Perspectives of Residents and Faculty of the Community Pediatrics Training Initiative (CPTI), Five Years Later".  To download the full version of this brief, please click here, or visit  http://www.jhsph.edu/wchpc/projects/DINE/DINEpubs to view more DINE publications.

April 2005 Supplement to Pediatrics on Community Pediatrics
This supplement contains a collection of articles about training and practice in community pediatrics that offer specific examples of clinical practice and research. The supplement's articles and commentaries discuss epidemiologic and historical perspectives on community pediatrics; examples of successful community pediatrics programs and training; and an agenda and next steps for research, program, and policy change. To read, click here.

Community Pediatrics Curriculum Manual (2005 edition)
The Community Pediatrics Curriculum is a resource for training pediatric residents in eight core competency areas of community pediatrics. These core competency areas are: delivery of culturally effective care; child advocacy; medical home; special populations; pediatrician as consultant, partner, and collaborative leader; educational and child care settings; community and public health, and research and scholarship. To access the manual, click here.

Community-based Resident Projects Toolkit (2005 edition)
The Community-based Resident Projects Toolkit is a guide developed to assist residents in partnering with communities to improve child health. Topic areas include: project development, evidence-based public health, asset-based community development, working with community-based organizations, cultural competency, media awareness, legislative and social advocacy, evaluating resident projects and project sustainability. To learn more, click here.

Children's Rights Curriculum
The Children's Rights Curriculum can be used to raise awareness of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by increasing the understanding of its direct application to health and health care policy and practice, raise awareness of the relationship between public policy and the health rights of children and encourage a commitment to the development of an advocacy role related to children's rights. To learn more, click here.

AAP Resources

Community Pediatrics Resources & Tools
This site provides links to a variety of resources and tools to help you plan and implement community-based initiatives aimed toward improving child health. You will find an extensive list of resources and tools both within and outside the AAP that will help you complete your project goals and find information related to child health and community-based initiatives. To learn more, click here.

YoungPeds Network & the Section on Residents
The Section on Residents enables residents, post residency training fellows, and medical students of the AAP to meet for the purpose of developing ideas and generating programs and projects which will improve the care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. The YoungPeds Network is the Academy's primary site for providing up-to-date information and resources targeted to our young members. To learn more about these resources, please visit: www.aap.org/ypn

Resident Section Anne E. Dyson Child Advocacy Award
The American Academy of Pediatrics Resident Section Anne E. Dyson Child Advocacy Award, supported by an endowment from the Dyson Foundation, celebrates the outstanding efforts of pediatricians-in-training as they work in their communities to improve the health of children. Any resident-sponsored and/or resident led project that seeks to advocate on behalf of children is eligible for this award. For more information please visit: http://www.aap.org/ypn/r/funding_awards/anne_dyson.html.

CATCH Resident Funds Program
The Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) Resident Funds program supports pediatric residents in the planning of community-based child health initiatives. Grants of up to $3,000 are awarded twice each year on a competitive basis for pediatric residents to address the needs of children in their communities. To learn more about this program, click here.

Community Pediatrics Education and Training Special Interest Group
The Community Pediatrics Education and Training Special Interest Group (SIG) of the AAP Council on Community Pediatrics was established to develop educational programs and resources to support medical students, residents, faculty, and practicing pediatricians as they work together on community-based training activities. To learn more about the Community Pediatrics Education & Training SIG and ways to get involved, click here.

Bright Futures
The overall goal of the AAP Bright Futures Education Center is to revise Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents and accompanying materials, to develop new materials, and to promote implementation efforts among health care professionals, public/private partners with key child health constituencies, and communities and families. To learn more, click here.

Medical Home
The National Center for Medical Home Implementation provides support to physicians, families, and other medical and non-medical providers who care for children with special needs so that they have access to a medical home. To learn more, click here.

CPTI was founded by Anne E. Dyson, MD and is generously supported by the Dyson Foundation.