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March 2008
This edition:
Feature Story
 Sunflower Project to cast new light on education program
As sunflowers turn their faces toward the sun, so the MUSC Pediatric and Peds/Med residency program is turning toward the light with a new approach to its educational program.
It's an approach to organizational change called appreciative inquiry (AI), and it involves discovering your core strengths and then building on them, explains Dr. Michael Southgate of the Department of Pediatrics.
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Letter From Our Chair
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L. Lyndon Key, MD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Pediatrics |
Dear faculty, Children's Hospital staff and other friends,
During the DCRI 3rd Anniversary celebration, Dr. Bill Mobley from Stanford made a powerful statement about the strength of the Darby Children's Research Institute (DCRI) by asking, "What is the mission of a children's research institute?" We all listened as he noted that an institute must have a mission. This area is where we have already excelled. Our number one criterion for inclusion in the DCRI is that the discoveries that are being made and the research that is performed should help us to understand, diagnose, and treat the diseases of children. In the vision of those of us who were involved in the inception of the DCRI, the most important issues were that we needed research capabilities to recruit the best physician scientists, and scientists that can help to improve the care in the Children's Hospital through basic and translational therapies.
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Update From Our Administrator
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John Sanders, MHA
Administrator
MUSC Children's Hospital |
Politics Affect Children's Hospitals
One of the most focused initiatives in children's hospitals is working with state and federal representatives to make sure that funding and support is kept constant for health care for children. More than 50 percent of the children that are cared for at the MUSC Children's Hospital are funded by Medicaid. This is a very typical for children's hospitals across the country. This dependence on public funding causes us to be vulnerable to any changes in state and federal guidelines and because Medicaid is such a big budget, it is vulnerable for changes and cuts in funding.
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Darby Children's Research Institute News
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Bernard L. Maria, MD, MBA
Executive Director
Darby Children's
Research Inst. |
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Inderjit Singh, PhD
Scientific Director
Darby Children's
Research Inst. |
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For a few special days last month, the halls of the Darby Children's Research Institute (DCRI) were lively with discussions, explanations and thought-provoking conversations as investigators gathered to present nearly 100 abstracts featured in the institute's third anniversary celebration.
Collaborations that criss-cross the entire MUSC campus were evident in the 97 posters on display on February 28. The event highlighted the accomplishments, discoveries and strides made in children's health research during the past year.
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DCRI Celebrates Its Third Anniversary
 On February 28, the Children's Research Institute celebrated its third anniversary. Take a look at some photos from the celebration.
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Evidence-Based Tip
Making sure you have ALL of the evidence
In addition to rounding with pediatrics, I also round at the Institute of Psychiatry once a week. If ever there was a place where "practicing medicine" refers to medicine as in pharmaceuticals, it is in psychiatry. It is not unusual for our patients to be on six or more medications.
With appropriate drug selection being so important, I read with interest the January 17 article in NEJM on the selective publication of antidepressant trials*. The first line of this article reads "Evidence-based medicine is valuable to the extent that the evidence base in complete and unbiased."
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Laura Cousineau, MLS
MUSC Library
Dept. of Pediatrics EBM Faculty |
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A special thanks to the following individuals for their efforts in putting together Kids Connection each month.
Editor-in-Chief: Bernard L. Maria, MD/MBA
Editorial Assistant: Jennifer Cherock, Trio Solutions, Inc.
Publishers: Brian Cendrowski and Roxanne Hicks, Trio Solutions, Inc.
Feature Writer: Mary Sue Lawrence
Contributing Writers:
Lyndon Key,
Bernard Maria,
Philip Saul,
Laura Cousineau
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