UCONN - Pediatric Residency Program

community service
Program Goals/Objectives:
1.	To provide pediatric residents with the tools and knowledge needed to become professionals committed to improving the health of children in their communities.
2.	To engage pediatric residents in the communities in which they work.
3.	Develop meaningful partnerships between the academic department and community-based organizations (CBOs).
4.	Enhance pediatric training through interdisciplinary collaborations with other schools and university departments.
Individual Elective Goals/ Objectives:
Community Based Multidisciplinary Team Collaboration:
Child Abuse
1.	Learn how other disciplines address the needs of children in efforts to protect children.
2.	Understand how pediatric concerns influence child protection decisions.
3.	Understand the role of the pediatrician in child protection issues.
4.	Understand the public health and individual health approaches to child protection.
5.	Be able to address the knowledge needs of other disciplines regarding pediatric issues in child protection.
6.	Understand the organization of a community based multidisciplinary team.
7.	Understand the public health approaches to child abuse prevention.
Medical Homes for Children With Special Health Care Needs
1.	To participate in the design of medical homes for children (age birth to adolescence) with special health care needs.
2.	To provide support to child care programs including children with special health care needs.
3.	To assist in policy development to support the medical home concept for children with special health care needs.
Government Relations and Advocacy
1.	To understand the process by which an issue is drafted into a bill and passed into Connecticut law.
2.	To understand some of the ways in which federal, state and local laws impact the provision of pediatric care.
3.	To become comfortable with and equipped for interactions with policy makers at the city, county, state and/or federal level.
4.	To gain a "snapshot" understanding of the variety and scope of legislative issues introduced each year that affect the health of children in Connecticut, and how advocates for children can impact such legislation.
5.	To understand the value and power of physician involvement in legislative advocacy.
6.	To understand the importance of legislative advocacy in the context of a children's hospital.
7.	To apply advocacy skills/lessons to a current advocacy issue.
Help Me Grow
1.	To understand how a statewide system connecting families to appropriate services can promote the well being of children at risk for behavioral or developmental problems.
2.	To increase the awareness of existing community resources.
3.	To enhance the understanding and knowledge of the pediatricians role in the process of developmental surveillance.
4.	To obtain knowledge about community based programs serve children.
Injury & Violence Prevention Rotation for Pediatric Residents @ CCMC
1.	To understand the importance (magnitude, cost, preventability) of the injury problem.
2.	To understand the conceptual and historical underpinnings of injury and injury prevention.
3.	To describe the epidemiology of unintentional injury and violence.
4.	To understand general principles of injury prevention and the use of educational, environmental, and legal strategies to prevent injury.
5.	To describe the injury prevention role of an academic children's hospital
6.	To describe a systems approach to developing a community-based injury prevention program.
7.	To understand how to evaluate injury prevention programs.
8.	To describe common barriers to injury prevention and methods to address them.
PROkids: Working with Families on the Road to Recovery
1.	To learn about the method and value of home-based intervention services for families at risk.
2.	To learn about an attachment and infant mental health model incorporated into primary care practice.
3.	To examine the use of the primary care visit as a vehicle to reach at risk families and to strengthen the postnatal caregiving environment.
4.	To acquire current knowledge concerning addiction and its antecedents, and the effects of prenatal exposures on infants and children.
5.	To learn about the importance of the caregiving environment in determining outcome.
School Health
1.	To understand the differences between office- and community-based health care delivery.
2.	To understand the role of the pediatrician as a consultant to a community service.
3.	To understand the role of the pediatrician as a member of a health care team.
4.	To understand and apply knowledge of childhood stages of development in the clinical setting.
5.	To understand different ways of teaching and learning in childhood.
6.	To learn to optimize continuity of care of children with chronic illness by cultivating communication between school clinics and community clinicians.
Children in Foster Care
1.	To gain an understanding of the emotional and support needs of:
i. ii. iii. iv. v.	Children entering foster care Children within the foster care system Foster parents Biological families of foster parents Biological siblings of children in foster care
2.	To gain knowledge of common behaviors seen in children in foster care, their causes and approaches to treatment.
3.	To understand the role of age and developmental level on children's adjustment to foster care.
4.	To gain knowledge about resources available to foster parents in the state of Connecticut.
5.	To understand the physician's role in treatment planning and prevention.
6.	To understand the process of foster care planning and placement.
7.	To understand the factors influencing permanency planning, reunification and adoption.
8.	To be able to support a family delivering foster care.
9.	To be able to elicit a history with details specific to health and behaviors associated with foster care.
Enhanced Primary Care: Medical-Legal Advocacy Clinic
1.	To gain a basic understanding of "poverty law issues" and the role that poverty plays in the lives of low-income families.
2.	To gain an understanding of how poverty results in drastic health consequences for low-income children.
3.	To learn about the basic government programs that affect and address low-income children, such as disability benefits for children, cash and food assistance programs, Medicaid, and special education services.
4.	To learn the principles of multidisciplinary advocacy - - the concept that attorneys and physicians may combine their skills and knowledge to advocate on behalf of children in need to improve health outcomes.
5.	To gain an understanding of treating the "whole patient" by utilizing basic advocacy tools to assist children in need.
6.	To understand the physician's role in spotting medical-legal issues that extend beyond the traditional medical examination.
7.	To work with an attorney to provide direct patient/client service to remedy acute issues that affect child health.
8.	To provide families with resources and tools to improve precarious living situations and to access social service and legal initiatives available in the community.