Social Pediatrics Research Projects
The Social Pediatric Residency Program’s main focus is to train pediatricians and provide them with competence in understanding and working with their community to improve health outcomes. Residents will learn that to create effective advocacy opportunities, involvement in community work must be conducted with academic rigor.
The social medicine project serves as a core methodology for meeting the goal of the social pediatrics program. In the course of conducting the project, residents will develop competencies in the ACGME defined areas of systems-based practice, practice-based learning and improvement, and professionalism.
Residents are required to design, implement and present a social medicine community-based research or advocacy project during their residency. A faculty member will be the primary mentor at the beginning of PGY-2 year for all social medicine projects. Residents have protected time to work on the project over the course of their second and third years.
In addition there are formal didactic sessions on relevant research topics as well as opportunities to receive feedback from faculty and residents. Most residents go on to present their research at regional and national meetings such as Academic Pediatric Association (APA), Eastern Society for Pediatric Research (ESPR) and Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) meetings.
- Duh- Leong C, Braganza S. With a Little Help From Your Friends: Social Networks as a Predictor of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption in an Urban Academic Practice. Presented at the Academic Pediatric Association, NY, NY, March 2017 and Pediatric Academic Societies, San Francisco, CA, May 2017.
- Castelnuovo N, Scholnick J, Braganza S. Exploring Attitudes and Barriers toward the Contraceptive Implant in an Urban Pediatric Practice. Presented at the Academic Pediatric Association, NY, March 2017.
- Lax Y, Bathory E, Patel M, Braganza S. Perception, Attitudes and Practice among Pediatric Primary Care Physicians and Subspecialists Caring for Low-Income Children at an Urban Academic Medical Center. Presented at the Academic Pediatric Association, NY, March 2017 and Pediatric Academic Societies, San Francisco, CA, May 2017.
- Marcus L, Braganza S, Bathory E. An Rx for success: The Pediatricians Role in Educational and Career Planning in Urban Underserved Communities. Presented at the Academic Pediatric Association, NY, March 2017 and Pediatric Academic Societies San Francisco, CA, May 2017.
- Givner S, Patel M, Braganza S. Assessing Educational Characteristics of Children at an Urban Federally Qualified Health Center. Presented at the Academic Pediatric Association, NY, March 2017 and Pediatric Academic Societies, San Francisco, CA, May 2017.
- Lax Y, Patel M, Braganza S. Pediatric Resident Attitudes and Practice Regarding Advocacy Pre- and Post-Implementation of an Innovative Advocacy Curriculum. Academic Pediatric Association, NY, NY, March 2017, Association of Pediatric Program Directors, Anaheim, CA and Advocacy Training and Environmental Health Special Interest Groups (SIG) Session, Pediatric Academic Societies, San Francisco, CA, May 2017.
- Nguyen J, Bathory E, Braganza S. Caregiver Health Literacy and Comprehension of Acute Asthma Summary Instructions in an Urban Underserved Community. Presented at the Academic Pediatric Association, Region II and III, New York, NY, March 2016 and the Pediatric Academic Societies, Baltimore, MD, May 2016.
- Fiori K, Braganza S, et al. Closing the Delivery Gap: Operationalizing the Care Delivery Value Chain for Pediatric HIV/AIDS in Togo, West Africa. Presented at the Academic Pediatric Association, Region II and III, New York, NY, March 2016 and the Pediatric Academic Societies, Baltimore, MD, May 2016.
- Patel M, Braganza S. Resident Documentation of the Social Determinants of Health Utilizing the Electronic Health Record. Presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies, Baltimore, MD, May 2016.
- Patel M, Braganza S. Documentation of the Social Determinants of Health Via a Social History Tool in the Electronic Health Record. Presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies, Baltimore, MD, May 2016.
- Patel M, Scholnick J, White-Davis T, Bathory E, Braganza S. Resident Documentation of Social Determinants of Health: Effects of a Teaching Tool. Presented at the Academic Pediatric Association, Region 2 and 3 meeting, Bronx, NY, March 2015, Eastern Society for Pediatric Research, Philadelphia, PA, March 2015 and the Pediatric Academic Societies, San Diego, CA, April 2015.
- Li N, Braganza S. Moving on Up: Pediatric Perspectives on the Transition of Adolescents to an Adult Model of Care Eastern Society for Pediatric Research, Philadelphia, PA March 2015, Academic Pediatric Association, Bronx, NY, March 2015 and Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 2015.
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- Graham K, Patel M, Braganza S. From Boosters to Books: Enhancing Emergent Literacy in the Medical Home. Eastern Society for Pediatric Research, Philadelphia, PA March 2015, Academic Pediatric Association, Bronx, NY, March 2015 and Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 2015.
- Furman A, Patel M, Braganza S. Participant Perspectives on Education at WIC. Eastern Society for Pediatric Research, Philadelphia, PA March 2015, Academic Pediatric Association, Bronx, NY, March 2015 and Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 2015.
- Kopa J, Overholt S, Luciano A, Scholnick J, Hoffman N. In Their Own Words: Adolescent Male Perspectives on Health Care. Presented at the Eastern Society for Pediatric Research, Philadelphia, PA, March 2015, Academic Pediatric Association, Bronx NY, March 2015 and the Pediatric Academic Societies, San Diego, CA, April 2015.
- Fiori K, Schecter J, Houndenou S, Braganza S. Global Health Delivery Science: Applying the Care Delivery Value Framework to a Community Based HIV/AIDS Initiative in Togo, West Africa. Academic Pediatric Association, Bronx, NY March 2015, and American Academy of Pediatrics, San Diego, CA. October 2014.
