Section Chair Thomas P. Green called the meeting to order. Approximately 100 section members were present.
The minutes of the previous year's meeting, held in New San Diego, were approved as posted on the Section's web site.
Elections
The Nominations Committee proposed the following slate:
Secretary/Chair-elect--Richard Brilli;
Advisory Committee Members-at-Large--Michelle Moss; Brett Giroir; Brahm Goldstein.
These nominations were approved by acclamation. Dr. Brilli will serve as Secretary until the conclusion of the business meeting in February, 2000, at which time he will become Chair. Dan Notterman will serve as Section Chair from the adjournment of this meeting though the meeting in 2000. The section also approved the selection of Olga Molson and Jeffrey Fineman to Co-Chair the Pediatric Review Course at the next Symposium, in San Francisco.
Treasurer's Report
Dr. Green indicated that the Section has approximately $2,500 on hand, of which approximately $210 were derived from contributions from the membership, and $2,200 remained from the previous year. There were no expenditures by the section. Dr. Green observed a decrease in expenses associated with communication to the membership. This decrease was attributed to greater reliance on electronic communications, including E-mail and the World Wide Web.
Council Report
The Council Report was provided by Dr. Ann Thompson. She described the SCCM 1998 Strategic Operating Plan, a copy of which is available by contacting the SCCM in Anaheim. She reviewed progress on Project Impact, and noted that there was great interest in incorporating a pediatric module. This information was forwarded to Drs. Barry Markovitz and Steve Pon.
SCCM Staff Report
Carlos del Falla, who is responsible for liaison with the sections, described:
- The new SCCM policy manual.
- A new leadership program
- A program to enhance section participation in the deliberations of the SCCM.
- A recent survey indicated that members think that enhanced communication between SCCM and the sections is a desirable goal. SCCM has taken steps to respond to this perception.
- Mr. Del Falla urged members of the section to attend the Annual Business Meeting.
Committee Reports
Pediatric Internet Working Group. Barry Markovitz presented the report of this group. He noted that approximately 1500 individuals currently subscribe to the PICU list. He described the newly initiated Interactive Journal, and asked for scholarly contributions. He also described the Pediatric Critical Care Textbook Initiative.
Admission/Discharge Committee. Dr. Alan Fields provided the committee report, in the absence of Chair Jaimovitch. The PICU Criteria have been approved by the ACCM Board of Regents and forwarded to the American Academy of Pediatrics. The Intermediate Care Criteria are current under a final review by the Committee. They have already been reviewed by Section members. Dr. Fields asked that the Section agree that, following this final Committee review, the Chair be empowered to forward the Criteria to ACCM without further review by the section membership. This was unanimously agreed to, with the stipulation that interested members may request the final document directly from Dr. Fields.
Resident Committee. Committee Chair Ed Conway presented the report. He discussed the in-service examination which SCCM continues to provide, and solicited contributions of questions. Many of the members were interested in receiving summary performance data relevant to their programs. Dr. Conway is investigating this. The group also discussed the possibility of their being a formal, published syllabus.
Fellowship Directors Committee. The report was provided by Richard Brilli. He described a plan for individual programs to link their web-sites to the PCCM site. He also reported that a sub-committee was formed to review interest in a fellowship match program as well as a fixed offer date. A report should be available at the next section meeting, in San Francisco. Finally, Dr. Brilli noted that the fellowship directors groups was interested in developing a research curriculum.
American Board of Pediatrics. Dan Notterman, Chair of the Sub-board, announced that the certifying examination for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine would next be offered in August, 1998. He indicated that it was his impression that the Sub-board was endeavoring to tighten the research requirements, and that program directors would need to assure that their trainees met the published criteria for "meaningful accomplishment in research." Last year he reported that the Board, together with other groups including this section (through the Program Directors' Committee) had participated in the Residency Review Committee's process of revising the program requirements for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. The Sub-board has received the RRC's draft changes to the program requirements, and is drafting a reply.
Regionalization. Prior to this meeting, Dr. Perloff, Chair of the Regionalization Committee, advised Dan Notterman that the final revisions to the regionalization document were complete. Revisions had been requested by the AAP Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine, our co-author. He will provide a copy of the revised document to the American Academy of Pediatrics and to the ACCM. The document now stands approved by the section.
Reports were not received from the PCCSG nor the Clinical Practice Guideline Committee.
New Business
Several new committees were established. Richard Metz will chair a Committee on Hospitalists. Richard Brilli will continue to work on manpower issues, and will try to work with AAP in obtaining demographic information. Bruce Greenwald will Chair a Committee on Managed Care and PCCM. Members interested in these areas should contact the committee chairs by clicking on their hyper-linked name.
Members may contact Dan Notterman, Section Chair, by sending e-mail to him at: Dnotterman@molbio.princeton.edu
There being no additional business, the meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Daniel A. Notterman, M.D.
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