Special Offer for The Society of Pediatric Cardiology Training Program Directors!

We are very pleased to inform you that our journal Progress in Pediatric Cardiology (PPC) - a peer-reviewed journal of high quality scientific research, reviews, and experienced opinion important to the understanding, management and improvement of all aspects of cardiovascular diseases in children would like to offer members of your organization/visitors to your site the opportunity to access, free-to-view, articles of interest by clicking on the link to our special issue on “Pediatric Graduate Medical Education: Approaches in the Current Era of Duty Hours, Milestones and Entrustable Professional Activities”. 

Over the past years, Progress in Pediatric Cardiology has undergone several changes including a new editorial board, expanding the scope of the journal, and a commitment to be a home for submissions from trainees in pediatric cardiology. To that end, Progress in Pediatric Cardiology has dedicated this special issue of the journal to education which we think would be of special interest to your members. 

• Preface - pediatric graduate medical education

Robert D. Ross, Steven E. Lipshultz

• Domains, competencies, EPAs, and training guidelines: A primer on developments in pediatric cardiology education

Lowell H. Frank

• Connecting milestones to observable clinical performance through standardized pediatric cardiology rotation evaluations: Report and reflections on a novel pilot project 

Lowell H. Frank, Peter R. Koenig, Shubhika Srivastava

• Curricula components for entrustable professional activities for the subspecialty of pediatric cardiology

Shubhika Srivastava, Elizabeth Braunlin, David Brown, Antonio G. Cabrera, Lowell Frank, Julie S. Glickstein, Troy Johnston, Peter Koenig, George McDaniel, Beth Printz, Benjamin Reinking, Pierre Wong, Carol Carraccio

• Simulation based medical education in graduate medical education training and assessment programs

Lara G. Kothari, Khushali Shah, Paul Barach

• Improving the American Board of Pediatrics Certifying Examination Pass Rate in a pediatric residency program

Lynn C. Smitherman, Deepak Kamat

• Patient safety and quality improvement: What the pediatric trainee needs to know

Rudolph P. Valentini

• Developing a subspecialty fellow education program: Covering topics common to all pediatric subspecialties

Robert D. Ross, Deepak Kamat

• The danger of relying on the interpretation of p-values in single studies: Irreproducibility of results from clinical studies

Ronald L. Thomas, Paul R. Barach, James D. Wilkinson, Ahmad A. Farooqi, Steven E. Lipshultz

• Training pediatric cardiologists to meet the needs of patients with neurodevelopmental disorders

Krista M. Clancy, Steven E. Lipshultz

• The United States pediatric cardiology 2015 workforce assessment: A survey of current training and employment patterns: A Report of the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, and Society for Pediatric Cardiology Training Program

Robert D. Ross, Shubhika Srivastava, Antonio G. Cabrera, Holly S. Ruch-Ross, Carrie L. Radabaugh, L. LuAnn Minich, William T. Mahle, David W. Brown

• Letter to the editor regarding the following article “The United States pediatric cardiology 2015 workforce assessment: A Survey of current training and employment patterns: A Report of the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, and Society for Pediatric Cardiology Training Program Directors.”

Tarek Alsaied, Jeanne F. James

• Response to the letter to the Editor on “The United States Pediatric Cardiology 2015 Workforce assessment: A survey of current training and employment patterns”

David Brown, Robert D. Ross

• Physician burnout: An emergent crisis

Michelle E. Lee, David W. Brown, Antonio G. Cabrera

Please feel free to check out the website for further information about Progress in Pediatric Cardiology:  http://www.ppc-journal.com/.  We welcome submissions via the journal’s submission website https://www.evise.com/profile/#/PPC/login . 

With kind regards,

Koos Admiraal, MD            Steven E. Lipshultz, MD                    Robert Ross, MD

Executive Publisher            Editor-in-Chief                                    Pediatric Cardiology Medical Education Assoc. Editor                    

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