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Chapter Members' CATCH Awards
LT Rebecca Eick, MC, USNR
Resident, Portsmouth Naval Medical Center
Project Title: Pediatrician Recruitment for Free Care Clinic
Grant ID: 886
City, State: Chesapeake, VA
Year (start of the project): 2005
Program Name: CATCH Resident Grants
Program Web Site: www.aap.org/catch/residentgrants.htm
Key Words: Access to medical home, Health care advocacy, Uninsured population, Volunteerism
Program Description: The Chesapeake Care Clinic exists to provide free health care to the uninsured and working poor of Hampton Roads. The clinic's success is dependent on volunteers, yet there is no organized program to recruit providers. Over the past several years the extreme shortage of pediatric providers has resulted in non-availablity of care for the local pediatric population despite the clinic's physical existence. The project proposes to develop a recruitment strategy to provide a base of volunteers on an ongoing basis. If pediatric volunteers become more available then more children will have access to the medical care that they to desperately need.
Projects Goals & Objectives: The goal of the project is to create a formal recruitment strategy to increase the pool of volunteer pediatricians at the Chesapeake Free Care Clinic, thus ensuring the availability of pediatric providers to staff a once weekly pediatric clinic for uninsured children in the local area.
LT Kelli McDermott, MC, USNR
Resident, National Capital Consortium
Project Title: Military Partners in Parenting Education
Grant ID: 789
City, State: Bethesda, MD
Year (start of the project): 2004
Program Name: CATCH Resident Grants
Program Web Site: www.aap.org/catch/residentgrants.htm
Key Words: Eating disorders, Fitness, Military community, Nutrition, Obesity, Parenting education, Prevention, Safety, Sports
Program Description: This pilot project will take place at the Child Development Center at the National Naval Medical Center and at the school age and teen program at Fort Meade Army Post. The project goal is to prepare interactive and educational lessons for children, parents and staff at each site to improve health care education for military families. Planning meetings have proposed four topics: 1) Nutrition (obesity/eating disorders); 2) Safety; 3) Behavioral problems; and 4) Sports and fitness. Instructors will be second year pediatric residents who will prepare and teach the above topics during their community pediatrics rotation.
Projects Goals & Objectives: The goals of this project are: 1) To improve the healthcare education of military families by making pediatricians more easily accessible to large numbers of patients and families on a monthly basis, and 2) To formalize resident involvement in the project, not only to ensure longevity of the project in the Washington, D.C. area but also to enable residents to carry this idea and training with them to other duty stations worldwide.
MAJ Bruce Hess, MC, USA
Staff Pediatrician, Landstuhl Regional Army Medical Center
Awarded Spring 2005.
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