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Thursday, October 8, 2009

Recap of Episode 209: National Child Health Day

Last Sunday, Radio Rounds presented a special feature episode on pediatrics -- in recognition of National Child Health Day, which falls by tradition on the first Monday of October every year.

The free podcast download of this episode is now available on our iTunes page here!

This childhood health episode naturally featured a pair of interviews with pediatricians. In the first, we spoke with Dr. Joel Fein, an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and an Attending Physician in the Emergency Department at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

Dr. Fein discussed his interests regarding mental health screening and violence prevention, and as the conversation progressed, it became evident that working in a major urban pediatric emergency department is far from -- shall we say -- child's play. One study he discussed involved the use of an interactive voice response tool to followup with patients, and right on cue, the results from that study were published this week in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine.

You can find that published paper at this link on PubMed.

Our second guest for the episode was Dr. Shalini Forbis, who joined us from the Children's Medical Center here in Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Forbis highlighted the aspects of pediatrics that make it so worthwhile for her and her colleagues -- the ability to positively impact the health of young individuals for life and the benefit of health education and health literacy for patients and their families.

Again, this was a great episode, so we hope you get the chance to listen to our podcast!

UP NEXT: This Sunday (October 11 at 12 p.m. ET), we kick off a three-week "Experience of Residency" series. Our special guest for Part I will be Dr. Sandeep Jauhar, the author of Intern: A Doctor's Initiation. Dr. Jauhar is the Director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, and he writes regularly for The New York Times and The New England Journal of Medicine. As always, join us for 'Rounds' this Sunday with live streaming audio here on the blog at Noon ET!

Parts II and III of the series will follow in ensuing weeks with special guests Michael Collins (author of Hot Lights, Cold Steel) and Samuel Shem (author of The House of God).
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Avash Kalra is a medical student at the Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University. He is a 2005 graduate of Cornell University, where he majored in Psychology. Before starting medical school, Avash worked for one year at the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore, Maryland, where he conducted research on lifespan extension. He then worked for one year as a clinical research coordinator in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

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