The development and pilot-testing of a training curriculum in adolescent medicine and health

Demography of adolescent health care delivery and training in Europe

“…The sensitisation and training of all professionals involved in the curative and preventive care of adolescents is a crucial factor for the improvement of adolescent health care delivery. Despite the presence of considerable evidence showing that the training needs of health care providers on adolescent medicine were not fulfilled both from the health professional and the user perspectives in different countries [5, 12, 14, 15, 17-22, 24-26, 32], outside the USA, there has been a rather limited systematic approach to training on adolescent medicine until recently [3,12,15,23,28,32]. In Europe, the European Training in Effective Adolescent Care and Health programme (EuTEACH; home page at: http://www.euteach.com/) focussed on designing a curriculum that could be used in the training of physicians at both primary and specialty levels to improve adolescent health and well-being in the enlarged European community with a collaborative approach [28].…”

A High-Performing System for Well-Child Care: A Vision for the Future

“…33 For adolescents, the use of secure messaging provides a means of communicating confidential information to health care providers. 34 Web-based programs can help families with CHSCN monitor chronic conditions and receive timely feedback about their child's development. 35 Telehealth-the use of electronic and telecommunications technologies to provide health information and to diagnose, treat, or follow up with patients at a distance-holds promise to improve access to WCC.…”

“…Recent proposed changes in the health system, such as the Healthy Steps program, emphasize an integrated and population-based strategy to improving early childhood health, and have proven to be successful in universally increasing developmental services (38,45). Research has demonstrated that educational interventions, offered to parents in the context of pediatric well-child visits, can be effective in enhancing parent-child interaction and targeting issues such as sleep, toilet training, discipline, and infant crying (34,82,117,118). Such interventions have also been shown to promote children's learning and increase parental competence (118).…”

“…Such interventions have also been shown to promote children's learning and increase parental competence (118). There is evidence to show that application of developmental research findings may significantly influence childhood growth and development through pediatric practice and training programs (34).…”

The Georgian Adolescent Health Survey: methodological and strategic issues

“…This group has set up over the last fi ve years a group of European experts in the fi eld of adolescent health and medicine which has developed a training curriculum called EuTEACH (standing for European Training in Effective Adolescent Care and Health (Michaud et al 2004) and to which one of the authors (KP), professor of paediatrics and adolescent medicine in Tbilisi, Georgia, belongs. It is within this "think tank" group that the usefulness of a collaboration on adolescent health survey has emerged.…”