Training Pediatricians to Become Child Advocates

Work-Related Hazards and Workplace Safety of US Adolescents Employed in the Retail and Service Sectors

“…Several useful Web sites appear in Table 5. [50][51][52][53][54][55] In addition, individual clinicians and professional organizations should develop the skills and practice of engaging with other health professionals in addressing the policy issues surrounding young worker safety as they have successfully done in other aspects of child and adolescent health and safety, including regulations for fire safe sleepwear, poison prevention packaging, regulation of unsafe infant products such as infant walkers, child passenger safety, and graduated driver licensing for teens [56][57][58][59][60][61] Working conditions for teens can include many hazards, some of which are addressed by federal or state child labor policies or by OSHA regulations and some that are not. Even when policies govern safety, implementation is sometimes incomplete, 62 suggesting the need for not only careful monitoring of the policies themselves but also of improvements in policy implementation and enforcement, as with drunk driving laws or policies governing weapon carrying at school or graduated driver's licensing.…”

Development of an Advocacy Curriculum in a Pediatric Residency Program

“…At present, few reports provide information about the components of a successful residency training curriculum in advocacy. [3][4][5][6][7][8][9] To design an advocacy training program responsive to the needs of residents and faculty in our department, we formed an Advocacy Curriculum Committee to determine the following information:…”

Exploring the scope for advocacy by paediatricians

“…If advocacy on behalf of children is to be effective, the College will need to support and train paediatricians in the skills required to become effective advocates in their own communities in addition to its national advocacy role. The American Academy of Pediatrics, which has placed advocacy as a high priority since its foundation, does this in the form of supplying training on residency training programmes,3 providing paediatricians with information packs, and having an active website (http://www.aap.org/advocacy/), as well as being a powerful political lobby. This model might well be adopted here.…”