THE QUARTERLY PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC PEDIATRICIANS
Fall 2015 ISSUE
to Home Page
President's Message
What an Exciting Time!
By Carl Backes, DO, FACOP, FAAP
ACOP President
 |
Carl Backes, DO, FACOP, FAAP |
On a daily basis, osteopathic medicine is discussed. As we move forward in the new single GME accreditation system, almost all of our osteopathic residency programs are being accepted by the ACGME review committees using the AOA certification. I want 100%... only two programs to go.
According to a recent AOA survey, 70% of osteopathic students wish to continue osteopathic training in their residencies. The merger has provided for osteopathic-focused residency training and/or an osteopathic track (spots within the allopathic residency that may vary in commitment between osteopathic and allopathic). These variations will allow pediatric residencies to recruit osteopathic students.
All of our pediatric program directors need to request that their program has a separate osteopathic pediatric clinic to allow ongoing projects confirming benefits of OMM and, hopefully, an OMM specialist to precept the residents. My dual program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Doctors Hospital and Ohio Health, just completed an ACGME preliminary inspection. The inspectors were extremely positive that our program was a model for a single accreditation system and were impressed with our separate osteopathic clinic with an OMM preceptor.
Other important news includes:
- The American Osteopathic Foundation (AOF) asked the ACOP to be a part of the ‘Outstanding Resident of the Year’ award. The ACOP supported this function. Osteopathic trainers nominated one of their residents for this award, which is to be presented at the OMED 2015 in Orlando. Excellent candidates were reviewed and our pediatric winner will be announced at a special event on October 16, 2015 at the Hilton Hotel in Orlando.
- Nominations for the 2016 Harold H. Finkel, DO, and Arnold Melnick, DO, Community Pediatrician of the Year Award are now being accepted HERE. The deadline is October 5, 2015. Candidates do not have to fulfill all the criteria stated to be selected, but should have distinguished themselves in one or more of these criteria. Award criteria includes: nominee must be a DO pediatrician; ACOP membership preferred; has demonstrated community leadership in addressing healthcare of children; has accomplished an innovation that has improved the care of children; has advocated for children’s needs on a local/state/national level; is recognized by peers as a respected colleague; is a resident and student mentor; and is a role model for practicing and future pediatricians.
- The ACOP endorsed the 2015 Consensus Statement on the use of Anesthetic and Sedative Drugs in Infants and Toddlers, by SmartTots, a partnership between the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
- The ACOP again is a great part of the AOA’s health and viable affiliate organization program. This program enhances and protects the integrity and image of the osteopathic community, the AOA divisional and special affiliate organizations, physician leaders, members and staff.
It is a pleasure to highlight the changes to the ACOP website. The new website is designed to be mobile-responsive and will automatically adjust to any screen size from smart phones, tablets, laptops and desk monitors. Text content will always remain legible and images will automatically scale to fit the user’s screen size, resulting in no annoying zooming or scrolling. The website’s navigation menu transitions into a compact mobile menu to save space on smaller devices.
In addition to the Mobile Meeting Guides for ACOP conferences, there is a Membership Mobile App available in the app stores. Just search on “ACOP” and then access all of your favorite content through your handheld devices. Soon you will also see the PULSE newsletter in its new mobile-responsive format to make reading easy from your phone or tablet.
PULSE IS NOW AVAILABLE ON YOUR SMART PHONE AND TABLET!
JOIN ACOP TODAY!
SAVE THE DATE!
ACOP 2016
Spring Conference
April 14-17, 2016
Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel
Phoenix, Arizona