Overview of Med-Peds |
Mission Statement
Letters: Alice
Kuo | Jan Tillisch |
Edward McCabe
Edward R. B.
McCabe, MD, PhD
Executive Chair,
Department of Pediatrics
It is a great pleasure to
offer my enthusiastic support for establishment of a Combined
Medicine-Pediatrics residency training program here at UCLA. Eight years ago, I
became chair of the Department of Pediatrics, and since that time, a major focus
of our program development activities has been improving our primary care
pediatric training, to complement our already strong subspecialty focus within
the department. I believe that a Combined Medicine-Pediatrics Program would
continue our path towards developing high-quality, well-trained pediatricians,
prepared for clinical medicine in the 21st century.
As you know, one of the
developing issues in pediatrics is transitional care for our adolescents with
chronic medical conditions. As pediatric care improves and children with
special health needs grow into adulthood, there is an increasing need for
physicians with the knowledge and understanding of pediatric disease who can
also care for these adults. I see that physicians with Combined
Medicine-Pediatric training can fill this crucial niche for our patient
population.
I also support your ideas to
couch this program among a number of existing strengths in the Department of
Pediatrics, namely, our excellence in sub-specialty training and our commitment
to community health and child advocacy. I recognize similar excellence in the
Department of Medicine here at UCLA, and feel that jointly we have the resources
and commitment to create an outstanding residency training program in Combined
Medicine and Pediatrics. I am strongly committed to supporting the activities
of this proposed program and I will make every effort to assure its
sustainability.
Sincerely,
Edward R. B. McCabe, MD, PhD
Executive Chair, Department
of Pediatrics
David Geffen School of
Medicine at UCLA
