THE QUARTERLY PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC PEDIATRICIANS Fall • 2012 2012 OMED Pediatric Track By Marta Diaz, DO, FACOP DID YOU KNOW? and Richard D. Magie, DO The subject of the most commonly Join us in San Diego Oct 7-10 for an sold poster in the US is: exciting pediatric educational program. 1. Periodic Table 2. Albert Einstein Highlights of this CME program include: 3. Uncle Sam Recruiting Poster, • New for this year: “OCC Essentials,” “I Want You” a two-hour mini board review to help 4. Anti-tobacco campaign ad you prepare for your general pediatrics 5. Snellen Optotypes certification or recertification. • Interactive sessions including Simu- See page 7 for the answer. lation Competition (from the Naval Hospital San Diego Simulation Lab) and a medical interactive game. • A subspecialty day of perinatal/neo- natal lectures. what’s inside . • Infections Diseases lectures by Larry K. Pickering, MD (Editor of the Red Click on the article title Book) and Denise Bratcher, DO. below to view your selection! • Allergy and immunology lectures by Amy Marks, DO, and Robert Hostoffer, DO. President’s Message ..................................... 2 • Osteopathic Continuous Recertification update by Fernando Gonzalez, DO, Chair of AOBP. Melnick at Large ............................................ 3 • Stay fit by participating in the AOA 5K Fun Book Review .................................................. 4 Run/Walk. To Register Now • Join your former classmates in the sponsored Back to School Advice ................................... 4 college alumni functions while you enjoy Be sure to check the Pediatrician attending the OMED conference. box when registering in order to Residecy Program Highlights ....................... 5 • CME - 24.5 Pediatric Category A-1 Credits receive your syllabus. available. Thank you to our Supporters ......................... 5 iPerch ............................................................ 6 ACOP Wants to Know Your News Did You Know? ............................................. 6 Appellation Answers .......................................7 Proud of your pediatric practice? Know someone who did Historical Highlights ........................................7 something special? We want to know and share your good ACOP Committee Chairs ............................... 7 news. Send your story to [email protected]. Register Now!................................................. 8 2011-2013 American College of President’s Message Osteopathic Pediatricians James E. Foy, DO, FACOP ACOP President Board of Trustees PRESIDENT Building Relationships James E. Foy, DO, FACOP* My recent trip to Chicago for the AOA all ACIP recom- VICE PRESIDENT House of Delegates (HOD) meeting, and mendations. Scott S. Cyrus, DO, FACOP* our ongoing meetings with the American I pointed Osteopathic Board of Pediatrics (AOBP) out to the sub- SECRETARY-TREASURER and National Board of Osteopathic Medi- committee that Carl R. Backes, DO, FACOP* cal Examiners (NBOME), brings to mind the ACOP and James E. Foy, DO, IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT the importance of building and maintaining its Vaccine FACOP Margaret A. Orcutt Tuddenham, relationships. This is an ongoing process, Committee serve as the filter for the AOA DO, FACEP, FACOP* and like a garden, needs tender care and in reference to significant ACIP recommen- attention, particularly with our osteopathic dations that affect our primary care provid- EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR partners. ers, and that the resolutions serve as talking Stewart A. Hinckley* At the HOD meeting, we received points for media and patient consideration, *Executive Committee an update on AOA meetings with the Ac- as well as serving an educational role for all creditation Council for Graduate Medical of our osteopathic primary care physicians. I TRUSTEES Education (ACGME) concerning their Fall, reaffirmed that the ACOP provides the AOA Michael G. Hunt, DO, FACOP 2011, proposal. Briefly, the ACGME pro- with osteopathic review of pediatric issues, Erik E. Langenau, DO, FACOP Nancy Monaghan Beery, DO, FACOP posal would change their common program and keeps the focus on significant recom- Edward E. Packer, DO, FACOP requirements for all ACGME residencies and mendations. They accepted this rationale Judith Thierry, CAPT, DO, FACOP fellowships to require ACGME-approved and the resolutions were passed unanimously David A. Swender, DO, Fellowship Member training exclusively as prerequisites for ad- (see ACOP web site). Eric S. Bowman, DO, Resident Member mission to their residencies and fellowships. This encounter points out that we need Candace Prince, Student Trustee No credit would be given for AOA-approved to continue to maintain our role with the Ben Abo, Student Trustee rotating internships (required for osteopathic AOA as the experts on pediatric immuniza- licensure in four states), and AOA-approved tion and pediatric public affairs in general. CO-CHAIRS OF CME PROGRAMS residencies would not serve as a valid pre- Our discussions with the AOBP and Marta Diaz-Pupek, DO, FACOP requisite for ACGME fellowships. If this NBOME continue to address our taking R. Edwin Spitzmiller, DO, FACOP proposal were to be implemented, it would residency in-service assessment to a new PUBLISHER have a profound effect on osteopathic gradu- level. We propose combining our current Stewart A. Hinckley ate medical education. pediatric OMM and pediatric medical in- In response to this proposal, the AOA service examinations into one examination EDITOR has formed an ACGME task force with the and administering the exam electronically, Robert G. Locke, DO, MPH, FACOP American Association of Colleges of Os- with implementing and assessing assistance EDITOR EMERITUS teopathic Medicine. This task force has met from the NBOME and AOBP. Arnold Melnick, DO, FACOP several times with the ACGME. All three If we are able to accomplish this, we GRAPHIC DESIGN institutions are reassessing competencies and will have the first electronic pediatric in- Beverly V. Bernard looking for commonalities. The ACGME service examination in the nation. We will be proposal has been put on hold, as negotia- able to document and track the progression ASSOCIATION MANAGER tions continue, and the ACGME task force of our residents more closely during their Kim Battle will be making presentations at the ACGME training and focus individual resident and PULSE is published four times a year in conjunction Board meeting in late September and the residency program’s educational interven- with the American College of Osteopathic Pediatri- AOA Board meeting in October. tions more effectively. Additionally, we cians, 2209 Dickens Road, Richmond, VA 23230-2005; Our resolutions from the ACOP Vac- will be able to mute the allopathic critics of (804) 565-6333 or fax (804) 282-0090. cine Committee, concerning the new univer- our in-service examination. More to come. No part of this publication may be reproduced sal meningococcal vaccine booster recom- Our program for OMED 2012 being without the express written consent of ACOP. All rights reserved. mendation and the use of the meningococcal held in San Deigo is in place. Our next vaccine in patients with sickle cell anemia, conferencen i April 2013 will be the first The American College of Osteopathic Pediatricians is not responsible for statements made by any were accepted by the AOA HOD, but not time that the ACOP has visited Columbus, contributor. Statements or opinions expressed in without a challenge from the AOA Board Ohio. Peg Orcutt and Carl Backes are putting PULSE reflect the views of the author(s) and not and Resolutions Subcommittee. It was their together some wonderful events, in concert necessarily the official policy of the ACOP. opinion that we should rewrite the resolu- with Doctors Hospital. Plan to be there! tions to simply recommend approval of Until then, enjoy the rest of your summer. 2 American College of Osteopathic Pediatricians PULSE | Fall 2012 Child (PublishAmerica, 2006). One was the comment of a little girl, sitting next to me on our porch when I was MELNICK in medical school and as I was studying anatomy. The page I was holding open had an outline of a human body, no detail and no at large sex definition-- just a simple outline. This 8-year-old looked at the book, then looked at me and asked, “What are you doing?” I By Arnold Melnick, DO, FACOP replied, “Some of my school homework.” After a thoughtful moment staring at me, Pediatric Anecdotes she emphatically commented, “You go to a dirty school!” Anecdotes-- how we love ‘em! Some and comedian’s jokes eventually gets very In another instance, a very pregnant are comedic. Some are cute. Some are in- blurred. mother was striving to explain her huge sightful. Some are sad. Some are ludicrous. These anecdotes are often a picture of abdomen to her small son. “That’s your They run all shapes and styles and colors. our lives. Often, long after specific times, brother in there and I love him very much But almost all of us have them-- many dates and events are forgotten, the anecdote just like I love you.” Without hesitation, the from our own life experiences or from rela- will remain vivid. And they add color, and child replied, “If you love my brother so tives. And so many of them come from our sometimes importance, to our lives. Often, much, why did you swallow him?” children or children we know. What mother they have an uncanny way of helping us Of course, there were many that I did doesn’t remember the laughable thing her remember these specific events or dates not publish. Here are a couple such stories. son said when he was 4 years old? Or what from our past, otherwise forgotten. This was a true one. A day or two father doesn’t constantly repeat the brilliant Let’s sample a few more: after being taught “the facts of life” by retort of his son at age 6? And how many In an interesting and resourceful his mother, a young boy barged into his of these clever things have we pediatricians compilation The Little, Brown Book of parents’ bedroom early one morning and been witness to, particularly in our offices-- Anecdotes (Little, Brown, 1985), author immediately announced, “Go ahead.