Rotation Director: Ben Hoffman
Email: hoffmanb@ohsu.edu
Office: 503/494-2214
Phone: 503/239-6814
Pager: 15324
Overview:
This work is designed to build upon knowledge and skills gained during your CACH I experience during intern year. You will use your understanding of the community and the needs of children within it to identify resources and craft a possible intervention. Your approach could be in the form of a planning project, or the implementation of an idea. Dream big, but think small and be practical.
Ben Hoffman will serve as your adviser. His job is to help you think through your idea and help you operationalize it in a practical way. Don't worry or be intimidated by this—have fun with it, and use it as a springboard to gaining expertise as an advocate for kids.
Rotation goals and objectives:
1. Describe the process for conceptualizing and developing an advocacy project relevant to community health
2. Develop a means for advocating for children's health outside the exam room
3. Describe key attributes of effective leaders, and reflect on your leadership strengths and needs
4. Perform a focused literature search to answer a specific question relevant to child health
5. Discuss the imperative for pediatricians to advocate for the needs of children
Prior to the start of the rotation:
• Schedule a meeting with Ben for the first week of your rotation. You should meet with him, at least, weekly during this experience
• Please remember to turn on your pager for weekend night coverage
Resident Expectations:
Throughout the course of the rotation, residents will complete the following…
• Weekly meetings with Ben Hoffman to review progress
• Develop a proposal for a community advocacy project (CATCH grant) with focused literature search. Start here with the CPTI Project Planning Tool tool.
*Note: Residents MUST complete and submit a project planning tool with steps #1-5 and 7 completed
• Write a blog post (more information here) or Op Ed (see OpEd Curriculum here)
• Complete leadership curriculum noted here
• Complete Reflective Writing piece answering questions here
• Complete reading list here
Master Resource Site: https://padlet.com/hoffmanb4/cach2
Optional Materials
• Review information on Early Brain and Child Development
• Review information on How to Plan Community Projects
General Schedule:
This is largely a resident driven rotation where residents work through a series of small projects with support from the rotation director.
Residents will also cover the ward services on both Saturday and Sunday nights. Please arrive with your pager to receive sign-out on time both of these days. Usually, weekend sign-out starts around 5:30pm.
Conference: Residents are expected to attend teaching conferences AT LEAST 3 days (or 6 total times) each week during this rotation.
If you are going to be absent for all or part of a day:
Please contact (page or text) chief on call as soon as possible to arrange coverage if you will miss a weekend night call. A verbal exchange must happen with the chief on call if this is the case.
Any resident who is deficient in completing the assigned tasks may be required to make time up at a future date at the discretion of the rotation director, chiefs, and program leadership.