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Community
Pediatrics
Mission:
To empower future pediatricians to become leaders and advocates to improve the health of all children in their communities through promotion and support of residency training activities. To advance the field of community pediatrics through promotion and support of residency training activities.
Vision:
All pediatric resident graduates have the ability to collaborate, advocate and promote effective community activities that advance child health in their communities.
CPTI Goals
- To promote child advocacy by enhancing resident educational and experiential opportunities
- To increase community partnerships to enhance resident knowledge and skills to practice community pediatrics
- To promote faculty development and scholarship that advances community activities and training
- To promote and support evidence-based community practices to improve child health
- To achieve institutional change that incorporates and sustains Community Pediatrics
The core principles of community pediatrics are defined
here as follows:
- A perspective that enlarges the pediatrician's focus from
one child to all children in the community.
- A recognition that family, educational, social, cultural,
spiritual, economic, environmental, and political forces act
favorably or unfavorably, but always significantly, on the
health and functioning of children;
- A synthesis of clinical practice and public health principles
directed toward providing health care to a given child and
promoting the health of all children within the context of
the family, school, and the community;
- A commitment to use a community's resources in collaboration
with other professionals, agencies, and parents to achieve
optimal accessibility, appropriateness, and quality of services
for all children, and to advocate especially for those who
lack access to care because of social, cultural, geographic,
or economic conditions or special health care needs; and
- An integral part of the professional role and duty of the
pediatrician.
CPTI STAFF
Jeff Kaczorowski, MD, FAAP, Principal Investigator, CPTI
Monique Evelyn, Manager, Community Pediatrics Training Initiative, at: mevelyn@aap.org.
CPTI was founded by Anne E. Dyson, MD and is generously
supported by the Dyson Foundation.
For More Information...
Please contact:
Community Pediatrics Training Initiative
Division of Community-based Initiatives
American Academy of Pediatrics
141 Northwest Point Blvd
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
Telephone: 847/434-7397
Email: cpti@aap.org
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