Academic Careers in Advocacy: Aligning Institutional Values Through Use of an Advocacy Portfolio

Sara M. Bode, Benjamin D. Hoffman, Steven H. Chapman, Jeffrey M. Kaczorowski, Debra L. Best, Anita N. Shah, Abby L. Nerlinger, John A. Barnard, Keith J. Loud, Patrick Brophy, Ann M. Reed, Dana Braner

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Abstract

Academic children’s hospitals must embrace advocacy as a central component of their missions to discover new knowledge and improve the health of the communities and patients they serve. To do so, they must ensure faculty have both the tools and the opportunities to develop and articulate the work of advocacy as an academic endeavor. This can be accomplished by integrating the work of advocacy at the community and policy-change levels into the traditional value systems of academic medicine, especially the promotions process, to establish its legitimacy. Academic pediatric institutions can support this transformation through robust training and professional development programs and establishing opportunities, resources, and leadership positions in advocacy. The adoption of an advocacy portfolio can be used to align these activities and accomplishments to institutional values and promotion. This alignment is crucial to supporting the advocacy work of pediatricians at a time in which community engagement and systems and policy change must be added to professional activities to ensure optimal outcomes for all children.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article numbere2021055014
JournalPediatrics
Volume150
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 1 2022

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health

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