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Sagot AJ, Flugrad NA. Advocacy Training in Residency and Addressing Needs in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A 30-Year Review. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2024; 63:468-473. [PMID: 37992855 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2023.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2021] [Revised: 09/09/2023] [Accepted: 11/13/2023] [Indexed: 11/24/2023]
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Historically providing specialized advocacy training to Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists (CAP) beyond traditional medical education has been ambiguous at best. This is alarming particularly in light of the National Emergency in Child and Adolescent Mental Health and the increasing concern about health inequities resulting from social determinants of health (SDH). While Graduate Medical Education (GME) programs are adopting advocacy curricula, the authors argue that the shortage of trained CAPs and the growing need for advocacy makes it essential to focus on advocacy training that targets patients, organizations, or entire populations. The authors performed a systematic literature review across all medical specialties, highlighting the inadequacy of current advocacy training for CAPs, particularly in comparison to pediatrics, and the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requirements. The article suggests that advocacy training should be more emphasized in CAP training to address health inequities and promote better outcomes for children and adolescents. The training focused on medical-legal partnerships (MLP) is particularly crucial in addressing the social causes of health disparities and addressing unmet needs such as food, housing, and income that drive disparities, especially amongst vulnerable populations. The article concludes that providing an informed and evidence-based representation of current practices and methodologies used to train residents around advocacy is essential to ensure that CAPs are prepared to advocate for their patients and address health disparities resulting from SDH. Given the growing demand for mental health services and the unprecedented need for advocacy, specialized training for CAPs can no longer be ignored.
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- Adam J Sagot
- Hackensack Meridian Health Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune Township, New Jersey; Ocean University Medical Center, Brick Township, New Jersey, and Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Nutley, New Jersey.
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- Hackensack Meridian Health Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune Township, New Jersey
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Anderson HL, Lewis N, Rezet B. A Qualitative Study of Resident Advocacy Work. Pediatrics 2024; 153:e2023061590. [PMID: 38361480 DOI: 10.1542/peds.2023-061590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/05/2023] [Indexed: 02/17/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Advocacy is a critical component of pediatric training and practice. Pediatric resident advocacy experiences include skill development and real-world projects, but little is known about how pediatric residents participate in advocacy. Without this knowledge, educators run the risk of underpreparing residents for the full scope of advocacy work. This study sought to investigate how residents participate in advocacy by characterizing their projects using an evidence-informed conceptual framework and describing the unique lessons were learned by the residents. METHODS The authors used principles of thematic analysis to interrogate existing documents derived from pediatric residents from 2013 to 2021 at 1 institution. They purposefully sampled and deidentified project proposals and written reflections. Using a constant comparative method, they created codes. Codes, connections between codes, and findings were refined by discussion. RESULTS Residents demonstrated 4 different types of advocacy: some residents participated in directed agency or activism and others focused on shared agency or activism. Residents reflected on different learning experiences; residents who participated in shared forms of advocacy learned skills such as "Partnering," "Evaluating," and "Planning." Residents who were involved in directed forms of advocacy shared lessons on "Leading," "Presenting," and "Intervening." Advocacy work also changed over time: in later projects (2016-2021) residents took ownership of the role of "advocate"; social and political climate was salient in reflections. CONCLUSIONS Pediatric residents advocate through shared activism and agency and directed activism and agency. Educators should recognize, support, and supplement the experiences of residents as they participate in different types of advocacy.
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- Hannah L Anderson
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
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- Community Pediatrics and Advocacy Program
- Pediatrics Residency Program, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Community Pediatrics and Advocacy Program
- Pediatrics Residency Program, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Beauvais MJS, Thorogood AM, Szego MJ, Sénécal K, Zawati MH, Knoppers BM. Parental Access to Children's Raw Genomic Data in Canada: Legal Rights and Professional Responsibility. Front Genet 2021; 12:535340. [PMID: 33868358 PMCID: PMC8044527 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.535340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2020] [Accepted: 03/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Children with rare and common diseases now undergo whole genome sequencing (WGS) in clinical and research contexts. Parents sometimes request access to their child's raw genomic data, to pursue their own analyses or for onward sharing with health professionals and researchers. These requests raise legal, ethical, and practical issues for professionals and parents alike. The advent of widespread WGS in pediatrics occurs in a context where privacy and data protection law remains focused on giving individuals control-oriented rights with respect to their personal information. Acting in their child's stead and in their best interests, parents are generally the ones who will be exercising these informational rights on behalf of the child. In this paper, we map the contours of parental authority to access their child's raw genomic data. We consider three use cases: hospital-based researchers, healthcare professionals acting in a clinical-diagnostic capacity, and "pure" academic researchers at a public institution. Our research seeks to answer two principal questions: Do parents have a right of access to their child's raw WGS data? If so, what are the limits of this right? Primarily focused on the laws of Ontario, Canada's most populous province, with a secondary focus on Canada's three other most populous provinces (Quebec, British Columbia, and Alberta) and the European Union, our principal findings include (1) parents have a general right of access to information about their children, but that the access right is more capacious in the clinical context than in the research context; (2) the right of access extends to personal data in raw form; (3) a consideration of the best interests of the child may materially limit the legal rights of parents to access data about their child; (4) the ability to exercise rights of access are transferred from parents to children when they gain decision-making capacity in both the clinical and research contexts, but with more nuance in the former. With these findings in mind, we argue that professional guidelines, which are concerned with obligations to interpret and return results, may assist in furthering a child's best interests in the context of legal access rights. We conclude by crafting recommendations for healthcare professionals in the clinical and research contexts when faced with a parental request for a child's raw genomic data.
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- Michael J S Beauvais
- Centre of Genomics and Policy, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- ELIXIR-LU, Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, Belvaux, Luxembourg
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- Centre for Clinical Ethics, Unity Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Departments of Family and Community Medicine and Molecular Genetics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Centre of Genomics and Policy, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Centre of Genomics and Policy, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Boroumand S, Stein MJ, Jay M, Shen JW, Hirsh M, Dharamsi S. Addressing the health advocate role in medical education. BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION 2020; 20:28. [PMID: 32000759 PMCID: PMC6993364 DOI: 10.1186/s12909-020-1938-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2019] [Accepted: 01/16/2020] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The health advocate role is an essential and underappreciated component of the CanMEDs competency framework. It is tied to the concept of social accountability and its application to medical schools for preparing future physicians who will work to ensure an equitable healthcare system. Student involvement in health advocacy throughout medical school can inspire a long-term commitment to address health disparities. The Social Medicine Network (SMN) provides an online platform for medical trainees to seek opportunities to address health disparities, with the goal of bridging the gap between the social determinants of health and clinical medicine. This online platform provides a list of health advocacy related opportunities for addressing issues that impede health equity, whether through research, community engagement, or clinical care.First implemented at the University of British Columbia, the SMN has since expanded to other medical schools across Canada. At the University of Ottawa, the SMN is being used to augment didactic teachings of health advocacy and social accountability. This article reports on the development and application of the SMN as a resource for medical trainees seeking meaningful and actionable opportunities to enact their role as health advocates.
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- Department of Surgery, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- College of Health Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA
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Mattiucci MJ. Engaging Youth in a New Kind of Advocacy. Pediatrics 2018; 142:peds.2018-2755. [PMID: 30355588 DOI: 10.1542/peds.2018-2755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/31/2018] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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- Michael J Mattiucci
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado
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Nerlinger AL, Shah AN, Beck AF, Beers LS, Wong SL, Chamberlain LJ, Keller D. The Advocacy Portfolio: A Standardized Tool for Documenting Physician Advocacy. ACADEMIC MEDICINE : JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES 2018; 93:860-868. [PMID: 29298182 DOI: 10.1097/acm.0000000000002122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Recent changes in health care delivery systems and in medical training have primed academia for a paradigm shift, with strengthened support for an expanded definition of scholarship. Physicians who consider advocacy to be relevant to their scholarly endeavors need a standardized format to display activities and measure the value of health outcomes to which their work can be attributed. Similar to the Educator Portfolio, the authors here propose the Advocacy Portfolio (AP) to document a scholarly approach to advocacy.Despite common challenges faced in the arguments for both education and advocacy to be viewed as scholarship, the authors highlight inherent differences between the two fields. On the basis of prior literature, the authors propose a broad yet comprehensive set of domains to categorize advocacy activities, including advocacy engagement, knowledge dissemination, community outreach, advocacy teaching/mentoring, and advocacy leadership/administration. Documenting quality, quantity, and a scholarly approach to advocacy within each domain is the first of many steps to establish congruence between advocacy and scholarship for physicians using the AP format.This standardized format can be applied in a variety of settings, from medical training to academic promotion. Such documentation will encourage institutional buy-in by aligning measured outcomes with institutional missions. The AP will also provide physician-advocates with a method to display the impact of advocacy projects on health outcomes for patients and populations. Future challenges to broad application include establishing institutional support and developing consensus regarding criteria by which to evaluate the contributions of advocacy activities to scholarship.
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- Abby L Nerlinger
- A.L. Nerlinger is clinical associate, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. A.N. Shah is assistant professor, Division of Hospital Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. A.F. Beck is associate professor, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. L.S. Beers is associate professor, George Washington University School of Medicine, and medical director for municipal and regional affairs, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC. S.L. Wong is professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado. L.J. Chamberlain is associate professor, Department of Pediatrics, and senior faculty, Center for Policy, Outcomes and Prevention, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California. D. Keller is professor, Department of Pediatrics, and vice chair of clinical affairs and clinical transformation, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado
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In the medical profession, activities related to ensuring access to care, navigating the system, mobilizing resources, addressing health inequities, influencing health policy and creating system change are known as health advocacy. Foundational concepts in health advocacy include social determinants of health and health inequities. The social determinants of health (i.e. the conditions in which people live and work) account for a significant proportion of an individual's and a population's health outcomes. Health inequities are disparities in health between populations, perpetuated by economic, social, and political forces. Although it is clear that efforts to improve the health of an individual or population must consider "upstream" factors, how this is operationalized in medicine and medical education is controversial. There is a lack of clarity around how health advocacy is delineated, how physicians' scope of responsibility is defined and how teaching and assessment is conceptualized and enacted. Numerous curricular interventions have been described in the literature; however, regardless of the success of isolated interventions, understanding health advocacy instruction, assessment and evaluation will require a broader examination of processes, practices and values throughout medicine and medical education. To support the instruction, assessment and evaluation of health advocacy, a novel framework for health advocacy is introduced. This framework was developed for several purposes: defining and delineating different types and approaches to advocacy, generating a "roadmap" of possible advocacy activities, establishing shared language and meaning to support communication and collaboration across disciplines and providing a tool for the assessment of learners and for the evaluation of teaching and programs. Current approaches to teaching and assessment of health advocacy are outlined, as well as suggestions for future directions and considerations.
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- Maria Hubinette
- a Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia , Canada
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- b School of Nursing , University of British Columbia , Canada
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- c Centre for Health Education Scholarship , University of British Columbia
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- b School of Nursing , University of British Columbia , Canada
- d Department of Medicine , McMaster University , Canada
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Shumskiy I, Raju RM, Tschudy MM. Home Visits: Advancing Pediatric Training by Preserving Past Traditions. Pediatrics 2016; 138:peds.2016-2015. [PMID: 27558936 DOI: 10.1542/peds.2016-2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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- Igor Shumskiy
- Boston Combined Residency Program in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; and
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- Boston Combined Residency Program in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; and
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- Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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