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EPIC (Educating Practices in their Communities)
The Training Resource Academy, in partnership with the CT Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the CT Chapter of the American Academy of Family Physicians, has launched a new training initiative to inform pediatricians and their staff about children’s health issues right in their own offices. This model of "academic detailing," based on a successful program in Pennsylvania, will bring together a variety of topics under one training umbrella.
While there are currently a variety of individual programs and workshops in the state that offer Continuing Medical Education credits (CME’s) to physicians, there is no comprehensive continuing education system that deals exclusively with issues of child health and development in Connecticut. Furthermore, no CME program attempts to reach other professionals within the health care office who interact with children and families (e.g. nurses and office staff). As a result, research that informs best practices in critical areas of child health and development sometimes take years to move into actual practice.
The EPIC program provides office-based physician education using trained peer professionals to make onsite, in-office presentations about specific issues in child health and development to both physicians and their staff. Two components contribute to the uniqueness of this model:
* Its focus on the education of the entire office team, including nurses, physicians and receptionists, by a practicing primary care physician.
* The emphasis on office-based change using clinical information and practical office tools.
Further information about this project can be obtained from:
Jillian Wood
Project Director, EPIC
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
104 Hungerford St.
Hartford, CT 06105
Tel. 860-525-9738
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