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Sometimes,
medicine and TLC won't solve your problems: learn how to advocate for your
patients politically! SPACE LIMITED TO 28! Goals:
·
Knowledge The
principles and key elements of an advocacy campaign ·
Skills Develop
an advocacy campaign strategy.
He
lectures widely to parent and professional audiences, has released the first
title in a video series, and has a book “But I’m Almost Thirteen: An
Action Plan to Raise a Responsible Adolescent.” Each group of 4-5 students will be expected to come up with a campaign for an issue. How are you going to get your message across? Groups will work together to brainstorm the possible ways in which they could affect political change for their assigned issue in the first class, and in the second class will present their campaign, give a speech on their topic, and practice their lobbying skills. Dr. David Grande, a former AMSA President and current Penn resident will give constructive feedback on and moderate the presentations. The issues addressed will include at least: Residency Work Hours; Expanding the National Health Service Corps (NHSC; Pharmaceutical Company's Interactions with Physicians; Graduate Medical Education Funding (GME); Increasing the Number of Public Health Physicians; The Global AIDS Crisis: Selling Drugs in Africa; Universal Healthcare Class
1) History of the US Health Care System:
A Century of Failure Dr. Paul Jung is a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at
Johns Hopkins University and Director of the Health Policy Leadership Institute.
He completed philosophy and medical degrees at the University of Maryland.
During medical school, he took time off to work on the Clinton White House
Health Care Task Force, campaign for California Proposition 186, and serve as
Legislative Affairs Director for the American Medical Student Association (AMSA).
Dr. Jung completed his training in internal medicine at MetroHealth Medical
Center (Case Western Reserve University), where he received the Chairman's Award
and also served as chair of the National Consortium of Resident Organizations.
He is the author of Getting In: How NOT to Apply to Medical School and writes a
regular column for The New Physician magazine, and in 1999, received the Fitzhugh
Mullan, M.D. Award for Outstanding Resident Physician Leadership. As director of
the Health Policy Leadership Institute, Dr. Jung has organized an educational
program for medical students covering topics such as quality improvement,
managed care, and education. His extremely popular "History of Health Care
Reform: A Century of Failure" talk is invariably standing room-only at the
AMSA National Convention each year and he will present this whirlwind
interactive tour to YOU. Class
2) Activism in Medicine Peter Lurie, MD, MPH is Deputy Director of Public
Citizen’s Health Research Group, a Ralph Nader-founded advocacy group in
Washington, DC, where he conducts advocacy in pharmaceutical policy.
He has held faculty positions at the University of California, San
Francisco (UCSF) and the University of Michigan. He was the principal
investigator of a three-volume, 700-page study of needle exchange programs for
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and continues to evaluate
interventions for injection drug users in the U.S. and Brazil.
He has written on the subject of needle exchange programs in such medical
publications as the Lancet as well as in lay publications.
He has written about ethical aspects of mother-to-infant HIV transmission
studies and HIV vaccine trials in developing countries in the New England
Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association,
and has examined the impact of economic development policies upon the spread of
HIV. He has been involved in a
number of HIV epidemiology studies in Africa, Asia and Brazil.
At Public Citizen, his interests have included mental health,
occupational health and international tobacco policies. Class
3) Public Speaking/Speaking to the Press Your
favorite pediatrician will give you some tips and pointers for speaking to the
press and audiences of different sizes and compositions. You will someday have
to do this, might was well learn from the best! Class
4) How to Run a Campaign for an Issue:
From Identification of the Problem to Meeting Your Political Goals Flaura
Koplin Winston, MD, PhD, FAAP, is principal investigator of Partners for Child
Passenger Safety, the world’s largest research initiative dedicated to
examining how and why children are injured in motor vehicle crashes and how to
best protect children when they are in motor vehicles. Dr. Winston is also the
founder and director of TraumaLink, an interdisciplinary pediatric injury
control research center at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She is
also the Principal Investigator for research funded by the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, the Agency for Health Care Quality, the Maternal
and Child Health Bureau, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Winston is
often invited to inform policy on a national level. She served on an National
Academy of Science/Institute of Medicine committee setting the future direction
of injury prevention and control efforts; on a Blue Ribbon Panel on child
passenger safety other panels for the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration; and on panels and review committees for the Maternal and Child
Health Bureau, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.
She presented US Senate testimony on child passenger safety, which helped
in the passage of a child protection act by the Senate.
Her work is heavily cited as the scientific rationale for regulations and
laws regarding child safety. Her work has reached tens of millions of parents
through high citation within major print and video news outlets.
Dr. Winston also teaches effective public speaking and advocacy to the
residents at CHOP. We are very lucky to have her for this class. Class
5 and 6) Group Projects Each
group of 4-5 students will be expected to come up with a campaign for an issue.
How are you going to get your message across? Groups will work together to
brainstorm the possible ways in which they could affect political change for
their assigned issue in the first class, and in the second class will present
their campaign, give a speech as if to a large audience, give a more personal
speech, and show their lobbying skills. The issues addressed will include at
least: 1)
Residency Work Hours 2001 Class Syllabus April
26th-May 24th, 2001
Sponsored by the University of
Pennsylvania chapter of the American Medical Student Association Course Schedule
Thursday,
April 26th, 7-9 PM: Activism in Medicine
Panel This panel should provide insight into how we, as medical students, residents, physicians, etc., can make activism a part of our lives. Panelists include a medical student, a resident, a physician, and an academic scientist. Additionally, groups will be announced and topics assigned for the final project.
Thursday, May 3rd, 5-7 PM: Planning
a Successful Public Event Have you ever wanted to get something
together, whether that be a candlelight vigil, a leafleting campaign, a rally,
or something else? Our first skill session will give you all the tools
you need to plan and execute a wildly successful event that people will not
only notice but also enjoy. Team
Issue Preparation
Thursday, May 10th, 5-7 PM: Media
Relations When planning an event, it's great to get
the issue out to a larger audience by involving the media. In this, the
second skill session, learn how to write a press release, hot tips for
contacting the media, and what works best for timing. Oral Communication in Activism What's the best way to get your point across in
as few words as possible? The second skill session will focus on oral
communication, whether that be for a lobby visit, a public speech, or a phone
call to a legislator. What is a sound byte? What makes a good one? Written Communication in Activism The final skill session will focus on written communication. What's the key to writing an effective letter, whether to the editor or to a legislator? What about a fact sheet to distribute or take on a lobby visit? This brief session will give you all the skills you need! Thursday, May 17th: No class. (This is the night before the derm and repro exams)
Monday, May 21st:
Written assignments are due via e-mail so that they may be returned with Thursday,
May 24th, 5-7 PM: Putting it all
together… Presentations with immediate feedback
from the experts! Also, ideas on how to take these skills and put them
to use. |
