Home » News & Events
News
Jump to:
Events Section
News & Events Archives
Baylor College of Medicine Now Accepting Applications for Adolescent Medicine Fellowship
The Adolescent Medicine fellowship offers clinical, teaching, research, and administrative training in preparation for an academic career. The fellowship is part of the five-year Leadership Education in Adolescent Health training grant awarded in 1997, 2002 and 2007 - 2012 from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources Service Administration. In 2011, the Baylor College of Medicine Section on Adolescent and Sports Medicine is introducing the addition of a global health opportunity as part of the Baylor College of Medicine Adolescent Medicine Fellowship. The clinical elective would be a 1 month experience at the Baylor International Pediatric Aids Initiative (BIPAI) center of excellence (COE) in Gaborone, Botswana. Travel expenses and accommodations are provided. The experience would be included in the 2nd or 3rd year of fellowship. In addition, there is the option to take the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) tropical medicine course, either with general medicine or HIV focus. Fellows have the option to obtain certification in travel medicine by the ASTMH as well. To do so, they would need to focus their global health experience on providing clinical care to fulfill the 100 hours of clinical care required to achieve the certification. Visit the Adolescent Medicine Fellowship web page for more information and Fellowship Application.
U of M Selected as One of Five Institutions Nationwide for Innovative Diversity Peer Collaborative by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau
(Minneapolis, Minn.)—The strength of the University of Minnesota's maternal and child health (MCH) graduate and resident training programs has led to the university's selection by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) to participate in "Diversity in MCH Training: A Peer Collaborative." The U of M will be one of five institutions nationwide to participate in the peer collaborative, a comprehensive diversity effort launched by the MCHB Training Branch in early 2009 aimed at supporting grantees in their efforts to increase racial and ethnic diversity of trainees and faculty in maternal and child health training programs.
"This is an opportunity for our team to be part of discussions that delve deeply into the issues of training in our diverse society—not just at numbers, but also at what and how we teach," says Mae Sylvester, MS, Education and Training Coordinator for both the Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine and the Division of Academic General Pediatrics (Department of Pediatrics). Sylvester served as team leader for the successful proposal to MCHB.
The University's impressive history in resident, graduate, and post-graduate training, like the Leadership Education in Adolescent Health (LEAH) fellowship program first begun in 1978, emphasizes the importance of a multidisciplinary view and cultural competence in health promotion. The Peer Collaborative partnership will include other university MCH program faculty from the Medical School, School of Nursing and School of Public Health (Epidemiology and Community Health).
The other four academic institutions which are part of the peer collaborative network are the University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of California-Los Angeles, Utah Regional Group, and the Westchester Institute for Human Development in New York. The five teams were selected from among 17 applications received by a review committee composed of representatives of the MCH Training Resource Center, the National Center for Cultural Competence, training program faculty members from MCHB and one current trainee. The MCHB is a bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The MCHB's Peer Collaborative is part of a comprehensive diversity effort launched by the training branch in early 2009 and the selection speaks to strength of the university's MCH training programs. "It's really not possible to effectively address the health disparities in this country without also understanding the cultural context in which patients live their lives," says Nimi Singh, MD, Director of the Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine.
The five University of Minnesota staff members who participated in the submission of the successful proposal include:
-Mae Sylvester, MS (team leader) -Rickey Hall, Assistant VP, Office for Equity and Diversity -Peter Scal, MD, MPH -Nimi Singh, MD, MPH -Chinwe Umez, MD,, an MPH candidate and adolescent health fellow.
For more information about the Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine, visit: http://www.med.umn.edu/peds/ahm/home.html
Improving the Adolescent Health Care Workforce
Improving the Adolescent Health Care Workforce was the topic of a meeting in May sponsored by the LEAH programs and the National Academy's Institute of Medicine. This effort is key to implement the other reforms called for by the National Academy of Science's report on adolescent health, Missing Opportunities.
The meeting agenda included expert faculty on adolescent health care, adolescent-related research, and policy as well as new adolescent health leaders just beginning to take leadership.
The meeting included:
- An overview of the Missing Opportunities report (Gootman and Irwin),
- A review of the recommendations on the adolescent health care workforce (Bearinger),
- An outline of the adolescent health activities of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (Van Dyck),
- A summary of the LEAH programs (Orr),
- A discussion of specific needs in the development of educator/scholar and interdisciplinary clinician scientists (Emans, Freeman, Haverkos, and Newcomer)
- A presentation on issues and developments in pediatric residency education, and in nursing, and other interdisciplinary education (Ludwig and Burke),
- A presentation of health care reform recommendations of the Society for Adolescent Medicine (Kriepe) and by the National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health.(Fox and McManus), as well as a consideration of the opportunities and dilemmas raised by electronic medical records (Mandl),
- Several recommendations of strategy groups on primary care and educator/scholar training,
- A Synthesis (Resnick and Brindis).
- From the meeting has come an Action Plan to improve the adolescent health workforce.
Events
Jump to:
News Section
News & Events Archives
There are no events listed at this time.