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Pediatrics Residency Greenville - Advocacy

Advocacy

At Prisma Health, advocacy is both an integral part of the pediatric residency and the hospital as a whole. Faculty and residents alike are active at the local, state and national level on issues that affect the well-being of children. Through the advocacy curriculum, residents develop the skills to make advocacy a part of their lives and careers beyond residency.

  • Longitudinal Child Advocacy Curriculum spans all 3 years of training and is integrated into Clinic and DBP rotations with protected time for learning goals and projects.
  • Intern Orientation Community Bus Tour: Led by Greenville Homeless Alliance with support from the Bradshaw institute, residents discuss the contrast of wealth and poverty in our city, learn about Greenville’s history and current policies/agencies in place that aim to serve under-resourced and historically excluded populations, and have the opportunity for site visit to learn from community services leaders.
  • Advocacy Project: Interns work in pairs along with faculty mentors to development a project during their PGY1 year with the option to expand into a QI project during PGY2/3 years. Example past projects listed below, including some presented at the national level or receiving grant funding:
    • Advancing Oral Health for Medically-Complex Latinx Children (AAP National Conf poster)
    • Pediatric Youth Immersion Camp of the Upstate (AAP Pipeline grant funded project)
    • Patient Concussion Education during Sports Physicals
    • Supporting Breastfeeding in Working Mothers
    • Gun Safety Education and Lock Distribution in the Center for Pediatric Medicine
  • Components of training:
    • Towards the goals of Culturally Effective Care and Cultural Humility
      • Includes implicit bias training modules, PASOs and interpreter training experiences, and inclusive care for LGBTQ youth modules
    • Understanding of Resources, Services, and Needs
      • Review and discussion of resources including Medicaid/WIC, IEP/504 plans, health needs assessments, identification of individual and public health factors that affect child health, and equity indices at the local/regional/national level
      • Learn about special population needs through participation in complex care clinics, new immigrant clinics, Head Start
      • Site visits to local services and community tours, partner as a resource navigator for families and their children, and explore the Medical-Legal Partnership
    • Advocacy in Action
      • Training in communication and collaboration with community groups/leaders, legislators, and agency administrators as well as social media advocacy
      • Participation in School Based Health, State Legislative Advocacy Day, Pridefest, Committee on Children Public Hearings, AAP opportunities, Safe Kids Greenville, and OnTrackGreenville.

Local Resource Spotlight: Bradshaw Institute for Community Health and Advocacy

In 2016, the Children’s Hospital established the Bradshaw Institute for Community Health and Advocacy. Through initiatives targeting child abuse and injury prevention, health literacy, developmental and behavioral problems, as well as innovative school based health centers and a medical-legal partnerships, the Bradshaw Institute is making big impacts in our community. Ongoing research, grant funding, and more than 50 state and national level conference presentations have helped expand this impact to an even larger community. The Bradshaw Institute’s Medical Director, Dr. Kerry Sease, is a member of the Children’s Hospital General Pediatrics faculty and the Advocacy Rotation Director for the residency, sharing her knowledge and expertise to the next generation of child health advocates.