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Fellowship Training Committee Chair Carol Weitzman, MD (term expires 2009) Yale University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics Email: carol.weitzman@yale.edu

The DBP Fellowship Training Committee had a busy and productive year. As our first official year as a committee, we focused on preparing current and future program directors for the reporting requirements of the ACGME. To this end, Mary Pipan and Carol Weitzman presented a workshop as part of the 2007 pre-meeting educational workshops that focused on teaching the ACGME competencies and evaluating programs, fellows and faculty. Dan Coury, Franklin Trimm and Adam Pallant presented at the workshop on different aspects. We hope to have a fellowship relevant workshop submitted each year and anticipate that this will be a valuable and informative workshop.

The other major thrust of the committee in the past year has been to develop a webpage on the SDBP website that will serve as a warehouse of materials that can be used by existing and new programs to evaluate all aspects of their program. In addition, we are gathering current PIFs that we can post for centers considering applying for accreditation. Last, we have added links to valuable websites related to ACGME competencies and writing PIFs.

In the coming year, we hope to continue to develop the webpage, submit another workshop proposal and examine membership in SDBP among fellows who have graduated training programs. We are looking for additional members who wish to contribute ideas and some effort over the next year.