The Society for Behavioral Pediatrics: A New Portal in a Rapidly Moving Boundary

[摘要] In January 1976, at the first meeting of the members of the Task Force on Pediatric Education, its chairman, Henry Kempe, made the following statement: All who care about children must care deeply about the education of those who provide their health services. To paraphrase a basic tenet of the report of the Task Force: pediatric education must be based on what is best for infants, children, and adolescents. It cannot be based on what is best for doctors, faculty, departments, and hospitals.1The underlying hypothesis was that health needs must form the basis for pediatric education.2 Any rationale for change should therefore be predicted on unmet health needs. To again quote Kempe from his 1978 presidential address to the American Pediatric Society3 on the same topic: "the concept that educational activities in our departments should relate to the health needs of children was not as universally accepted as you might think. A few feel to this day that it should be the other way around—that the needs of their departments should be addressed by a ready supply of sick and funded children, each in their appropriate subspecialty."If indeed we care about children and their health needs and truly wish to realign clinical programs, educational policies, and research strategies along a track that will meet these needs and thus improve the health status of America's children, the first objective must be a reasoned assessment of the unmet health needs of our young. This same rationale holds true in the area of developmental and behavioral pediatrics.

[学科分类] 儿科学