Education Committee

Description

The Education Committee is an interprofessional group of individuals committed to creating and promoting innovative, efficient and effective education in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics to ensure optimal developmental and behavioral health for all children. Current goals of the committee include developing and promoting DBP curricula for application in multiple fields across the continuum of professional education and developing and promoting best practices in interprofessional training, clinical care and research and evaluation. The committee is open to any member wishing to participate and encourages the participation of trainees.

Recent Activity

The Education Committee holds an annual face-to-face meeting during the SDBP Annual Meeting. The Chairs and immediate past chair also hold monthly conference calls and workgroups participate in conference calls throughout the year.

The Teaching Workshop workgroup, led by the chairs, reviews proposals for workshops to be presented at the annual Teaching Workshop. The focus of this interprofessional workshop is the enhancement of faculty teaching and evaluation skills for those who participate in the developmental-behavioral training of learners from a variety of professional fields and educational levels (i.e., graduate-level, medical school, residency, fellowship). Workshop sessions are designed to equip participants with the necessary knowledge and tools to implement similar teaching and evaluation methods in their local programs.

The DBP National Flipped Classroom workgroup, led by the chairs of the Education Committee and the chairs of the Fellowship Training Section, are creating Flipped Classroom educational modules. The aim is for fellowship programs and individuals to have access nationally and internationally to highly engaging educational material, and to reduce the burden for individual DBP programs creating educational content.

The Online Resources workgroup, led by Katie Lipman, has been working diligently to identify education-related resources and has developed the SDBP Google Website. The aim of the website is to provide a space to share developmental-behavioral pediatric and psychology education resources. The target audience is educators looking to design curricula for different types and levels of trainees. However, there are educational materials available for practicing providers, parents, families and patients as well.

The website contains:

• Topic specific resources (e.g. autism, ADHD, anxiety)
• General resources (websites with material for multiple topics)
• Movie, book and article lists
• DBP curricula for various levels of learner (residents, fellows)
• A list of providers available to provide virtual lectures
• A reviewer form so you can add to the google website
• Feedback forms for suggestions for improvements and additions to the website

The website is NOW AVAILABLE under the MEMBERS Only Section:

Member Resources - SDBP Online Educational Resources

This is a work in progress, so new materials will be added every few months.
Contact: Lipmanc2@ccf.org

The “Invite a Lecturer” series, facilitated by the Online Education Work Group, features virtual lectures given by members of SDBP about various DBP-related topics. This is an opportunity for members of SDBP to share their expertise with a national audience of learners, network and build CVs. The target audience is trainees (e.g. residents, fellows), but practicing providers are also invited to attend. Lectures are offered every 3-4 months, with opportunities for lecturers to be invited by individual institutions for additional didactics.