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AAP News Vol. 24 No. 5
May 2004, p. 244
• Dental health brochure
• Telephone protocols guides
To order these AAP publications, visit the AAP Online Bookstore at www.aap.org/bookstore or call toll-free (888) 227-1770. AAP art contest There’s still time for pediatricians to invite children in grades 1-5 to enter the Academy’s first National Art Contest. Official entry forms are available online at www.aap.org. Entries must be postmarked by June 1, and winners will be announced June 30. Pediatricians may want to display in their offices photocopies of the entry form from the April AAP News. National EMS Week
This year marks the 30th anniversary of EMS Week with the theme, EMS: There When You Need Us. The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), with the Academy as a supporting partner, sponsors the event. An EMS kit highlighting activities and ideas is available by calling (800) 798-1822, touch 6; visiting the ACEP Web site at www.acep.org or e-mailing emsweek{at}acep.org. National Mental Health Month, Childhood Depression Awareness Day
In addition, Children’s Mental Health Week (May 2-8) and Childhood Depression Awareness Day (May 4) highlight the seriousness of depression, which affects as many as one in eight teens and one in 33 children. The 2004 Mental Health Month Guide, with activities, tips and ways to increase community awareness about mental health, can be purchased for $15.95 at www.nmha.org/bookstore; materials and brochures also can be downloaded free of charge at www.nmha.org/mentalhealthmonth. 2003 Congressional Scorecard The Children’s Defense Fund’s 2003 Congressional Scorecard shows how members of Congress voted to protect the interests of children on 11 key issues. View the scorecard at www.cdfactioncouncil.org/scorecard2003.pdf. Instant Immunization Scheduler The National Immunization Program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention promotes timely administration of recommended vaccines through an online Instant Immunization Scheduler at www2.cdc.gov/nip/scheduler_le/default.asp. Users can type in a child’s birth date, click and generate a customized immunization schedule for children 5 years old and younger. Parent and provider versions are available. 3-A-Day of Dairy Campaign
Eating three servings of dairy each day can help provide calcium along with eight additional nutrients, including potassium, phosphorus, protein, vitamins D, A, B 12, riboflavin and niacin. Access www.3aday.org for posters, recipes, a newsletter and nutrition information for families. The American Dairy Association/National Dairy Council manages the campaign. Advocating substance abuse training A newly formed group of medical, nursing and physician assistant students have launched a Web site at www.hpssat.org as part of a range of activities to increase and improve health professional student training and education in the prevention and treatment of substance abuse. The group, Health Professional Students for Substance Abuse Training (HPSSAT), states that only 8% of U.S. medical schools include a substance abuse component in their curriculum. Members plan to host lectures, form student interest groups and committees, pilot surveys, solicit members from other health fields and develop a curriculum report card to improve training in health professional programs. The group is a project of the Physician Leadership on National Drug Policy, a group of national medical leaders that advocates for a public health approach to substance abuse to promote the need for an expanded role of health professionals in the screening, diagnosis, intervention and referral of individuals with alcohol and other drug problems. The student organization’s physician participants include Errol R. Alden, M.D., FAAP, AAP deputy executive director, and Catherine D. DeAngelis, M.D., M.P.H., FAAP, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. For more information, e-mail hpssat{at}brown.edu. Prescription drug resources
Holroyd-Sherry Award nominations The AAP Committee on Public Education (COPEd) is accepting nominations for the 2004 Holroyd-Sherry Award, which recognizes an AAP Fellow whose outstanding contributions have demonstrated that media education is important to public health. Nominees should demonstrate efforts in advocacy, legislation, research or professional or public education that address the media’s influence on child and adolescent health, and/or suggest solutions to these problems. Pediatricians who have taken an active role in the development of media programs that educate children, adolescents and parents, have advocated for quality children’s programming, or whose work has helped the medical profession better understand its role in media education will be considered. Current members of COPEd or AAP employees may not be nominated. Nominations must include a statement of support that indicates why the nominee qualifies for this award and provide examples of relevant achievements, along with a copy of the nominee’s curriculum vitae, by May 28. The award is named for H. James Holroyd, M.D., FAAP, and S. Norman Sherry, M.D., FAAP, whose leadership in the medical profession called attention to the powerful influence mass media have on the health and well-being of children and adolescents. For nomination materials or information, visit www.aap.org/advocacy/holsherry.htm, e-mail mediamatters{at}aap.org or contact AAP Communications at (800) 433-9016, ext. 7877. Recently posted or published
AAP CME calendar
For information or to request a brochure for upcoming AAP CME activities, access www.pedialink.org/cmefinder, e-mail cme{at}aap.org or call toll-free 866-The AAP1 (866-843-2271). Outside the United States and Canada, call (847) 434-4000, ext. 5830. To enroll in an activity, access www.pedialink.org/cmefinder or call toll-free (800) 433-9016, option 3. Outside the United States and Canada, call (847) 434-4000.
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