Advanced Competency in Pediatric Advocacy

The Advanced Competency in Pediatric Advocacy for pediatric residents fosters and encourages interest in child advocacy and community partnership by early involvement and exposure to its many aspects, such as addressing social determinants of health, community collaboration, health finance, health policy and legislative advocacy. This will be accomplished through seminars, mentoring, and completion of an individual project tailored to the resident’s area of passion. This project will include exposure to the academic lifestyle of pediatric advocates through meaningful scholarly activity associated with their advocacy efforts.

Goals

  • Develop residents who are well prepared to embark on an academic and/or career path in child advocacy
  • Increase resident awareness and productivity in community engagement, health policy and legislative advocacy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
  • Increase resident scholarly activity on a national level in pediatric advocacy

Objectives

Through participation in this program, residents will be able to:

  • Demonstrate fundamental knowledge of core advocacy activities on a community and policy level through completion of a pre and post assessment
  • Demonstrate use of an evidence based literature search, local needs assessment, biostatistics and epidemiology to identify a child health issue at the population level in our community
  • Devise a well-designed advocacy project to address a health issue at the population level and develop basic skills to influence policies, programs and systems to meet the needs of children
  • Effectively disseminate project results through an oral presentation or abstract
  • Receive strong mentorship by faculty experienced in advocacy and community health work

Assessments

  • Presentation of advocacy project to residents and faculty
  • Academic product including but not limited to abstract, poster presentation, publication of manuscript

Learning Methods

  • Literature review
  • Completion of a Project Planning Tool: Developing a Community Advocacy Project Proposal
  • Evening sessions (1.5-2 hours), expected to attend 6 out of 10 over the course of 2 years
  • Annual retreat with didactics and workshop activities devoted to framework of advocacy and development of a sustainable advocacy project.
  • Quarterly one on one mentorship meetings with your assigned advocacy faculty member devoted to development of advocacy project to include identification of a community partner, faculty expert in particular advocacy area, and outcomes measurements.
  • Additional meetings and/or dinners devoted to career development
  • Participation in elective advocacy experiences, such as Statehouse Advocacy Day
  • Experiential learning through design and completion of advocacy project

Program Requirements

Commitment:

  • Must complete formal commitment to the program
  • Begin with at least 18 months remaining in training program
  • Attend at least 6 (of 10) evening session over the 2 years
  • Attend annual half day retreat (you are excused from clinical responsibilities for retreat)
  • Quarterly meetings with your advocacy faulty advisor, with completion of your progress report prior to that meeting

Mentoring:

  • Establish an advocacy faculty advisor within 3 months of commitment to the program
  • You may also choose to have a content expert mentor in addition to your advocacy faculty advisor. The content expert should have record of advocacy related to pediatric health, safety, or community wellness.
  • Quarterly meetings with advocacy faculty advisor, faculty to submit meeting report form each quarter

Research and Scholarly Work Product:

  • Project proposal completed using the Project Planning Tool: Developing a Community Advocacy Project Proposal
  • Project Proposal must be approved by advocacy faculty advisor
  • Submission of a project abstract to a regional or national conference
  • Presentation
    • Residents will present their project design and outcomes at an Advanced Competency Presentation at Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Program Faculty

Adjunct Advocacy Faculty