The AAP provides a broad range of education and training activities that are aimed to develop, maintain, and increase skills and professional performance. The education and training programs provided are high quality, relevant, and accessible.
Teleconferences & Webinars
PediaLink
Peds-21
eQIPP
Bright Futures
Community Pediatrics
Community Access to Child Health (CATCH)
Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children
Partnering to Address Mental Health Concerns in Early Education and Child Care - March 23, 2009
The early education and child care setting offers great potential to increase early access to mental health services. This Webinar will describe the different types of health professionals (eg, child care health consultants, early childhood mental health consultants, and primary care clinicians) involved in identifying a child with mental health or developmental concerns and how they can work together for the benefit of the child.
Speakers: Marian Earls, MD, FAAP; Abbey Alkon, RN, PNP, PhD; Jack Levine, MD, FAAP; Susan Dickstein, PhD; Barry Marx, MD, FAAP
Listen to Audio of Webinar Event
PowerPoint Presentation (expanded version)
Webinar Resource List
The 15 Minute Mental Health Visit - June 5, 2008
The AAP Task Force on Mental Health collaborated with the Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health, Council on Children with Disabilities, Council on Community Pediatrics, Committee on Practice and Ambulatory Medicine, Section on Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, and Bright Futures to provide a Web-based teleconference for primary care pediatricians focused on educating pediatricians on how to approach mental health concerns with parents, children, and adolescents in the primary care setting.
Speakers Larry Wissow, MD, MPH and Anne Gadomski, MD, MPH discuss the "common factors" approach and present video clips of doctors interviewing simulated patients with mental health problems that are common in the pediatric primary care setting. A panel of experts respond to the video clips and assist in answering participant questions.
The 15 Minute Mental Health Visit Recording (Internet Explorer Only)
Collaborative Models in Rural Pediatrics: Integrating Mental Health - October 25, 2006
The AAP Task Force on Mental Health, Bright Futures, and the Rural Health Special Interest Group of the Council on Community Pediatrics sponsored a teleconference for pediatricians practicing in rural communities focusing on addressing mental health concerns in rural areas.
Teleconference Materials:
Rural Mental Health Teleconference MP3 Audio File (mp3, 4.97M)
(right click on link, then choose "Save Target As" to download)
Teleconference Resources (doc, 31K)
Jane Oski MD's PowerPoint presentation describing how telemedicine works in NE Arizona on the Navajo Indian Reservation (pdf, 951K)
PediaLink®, an online continuing medical education learning environment of the American Academy of Pediatrics, is a benefit of AAP membership. The program offers an individualized learning plan for each pediatrician and includes the following:
- Educational modules
- CME finder - how to find courses, topics, speakers
- Individualized method of keeping CME hours
- Linkages to Pubmed, Neopix, AAP resources, PREP self-assessment
- Means to develop a personalized ongoing learning plan
The AAP Mental Health PediaLink module was approved for an AAP Friends of Children sponsored program. The goal of this PediaLink module is to focus on primary care�mental health collaboration models to address the above objective. The module will draw on information learned from the October 7, 2005, Peds-21 symposium at the AAP National Conference and Exposition, which was sponsored by the AAP Task Force on Mental Health, and included platform presentations, poster presentations, and a published booklet of 38 US pediatrician/mental health professional collaboration projects. The module will identify factors important to the success of collaboration models, illustrate how the PediaLink subscriber could choose the most appropriate strategies to enhance collaboration in his/her present practice, and use local resources to improve medical management of mental health needs of their patients.
Click here for more information on PediLink.
In 2005, "Connecting for Children's Sake: Integrating Physical and Mental Health Care in the Medical Home" Symposium was held in conjunction with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition. The Pediatrics for the 21st Century (Peds-21) Symposium Series is an AAP initiative designed to address emerging issues that will impact the practice of pediatrics and pediatric care in the 21st century. Each symposium focuses on a specific topic and features a keynote speaker of national or international stature. Other expert speakers are invited to give scientific and scholarly presentations on key content areas or issues related to the specific symposium's theme. For more information on the 2005 Peds-21 session go to
http:www.aap.org/peds-21/peds21ARCHIVES.htm
eQIPP (Education in Quality Improvement for Pediatric Practice) is a Web-based program of the American Academy of Pediatrics that offers convenient and accessible continuing medical education. eQIPP was designed to help professionals implement practical tools and effective strategies to improve care. Current offerings include a clinical module on ADHD. For more information on eQIPP go to:
http://www.eqipp.org.
Bright Futures is a national health care promotion and disease prevention initiative that uses a developmentally based approach to address children�s health needs in the context of family and community. Bright Futures is a set of principles, strategies, and tools that are theory based, evidence driven, and systems oriented that can be used to improve the health and well-being of all children. The centerpiece of Bright Futures is a comprehensive set of health supervision guidelines developed by multidisciplinary child health experts � ranging from providers and researchers, to parents and other child advocates � that provide a framework for well-child care from birth to age 21. These guidelines are designed to present a single standard of care based on a model of health promotion and disease prevention. For more information on Bright Futures go to:
http://brightfutures.aap.org.
Community Pediatrics is an initiative of the American Academy of Pediatrics, dedicated to promoting the health of all children by supporting pediatricians in community health initiatives. For more information on Community Pediatrics at AAP go to:
http://www.aap.org/commpeds/.
The Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) program is a national AAP program to improve access to health care by supporting pediatricians and communities involved in community-based efforts for children. Among other initiatives, CATCH supports community-based children�s mental health programs. To view a database of past CATCH projects go to:
http://www.aap.org/commpeds/grantsdatabase/grantsdb.cfm.
Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program (HTPCP) is a cooperative agreement between the Federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Federal grants of $50,000 per year for 5 years are awarded annually through the program to support community-based child health projects that improve the health status of mothers, infants, children, and adolescents by increasing their access to health services. Through the cooperative agreement, Healthy Tomorrows staff members at AAP provide technical assistance to program applicants and grantees. More information on the Healthy Tomorrows Partnership can be found at:
http://www.aap.org/commpeds/htpcp/index.html.
