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The President and the Secretary General of IAP met the
Presidents and Secretaries of IAP State
Branches, Charipersons and
Secretaries of IAP Subspeciality Chapters and Heads of Departments of
Pediatrics during the 37th National Conference at Hyderabad. Given below
are the highlights of the meetings:
| Meeting with the Office Bearers of IAP State Branches
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Submissin of annual report and audited accounts are
mandatory.
The Branch should ensure that all the members
attached to it are also the members of the Central IAP by 2001. Only the
Central IAP Members attached to the Branch are eligible to hold the post
of the office bearer or the executive committee at Branch level. The
branches should not enroll any person without Central IAP membership.
The Branch is required to adopt Central IAP
election pattern so that the new office bearers and the members of the
executive committee take over the charge of office on 1st January every
year.
The Central IAP will give prizes to the inividual,
the State Branch and the Head of Department of Pediatrics enrolling
maximum number of members.
The State Branches should encourage local branches
to actively participate in all IAP activities and award prizes for best
local Branch, best IAP Child Health Care week Celebration, best IAP World
Breastfeeding Week Celebration, etc.
The Central IAP is considering adoption of three
tier system of enrolment of members, i.e., for the Central, State
and local level in which case the Central IAP will give fixed percentage
of the life membership so collected to the State and local Branch.
The Central IAP is also considering whether to give
permission to Branches for acquiring property in the name of a separate
Registered Trust of the Branch.
The State Branches should exchange copies of the
program and the bulletins amongst the Branches for interstate
communication, co-operation and co-ordination.
The State Branches should have better interaction
between subspeciality chapters and form state level bodies of the various
subspeciality chapters and hold state level scientific meetings.
| Meeting with Office Bearers of IAP
Sub-speciality
Chapters |
Submission of annual report and audited accounts
are mandatory.
The election of office bearers and the members of
the executive committee should be held regularly on the pattern of Central
IAP Election Procedure so as to enable the new office bearers to take
charge on 1st January in the following year.
The Chapters should involve Heads of Departments of
Pediatrics and local Branches in their programs and establish good
interaction between them. The Chapters should seek the co-operation of the
IAP State Branches for appointing State level co-ordinators, which will
help them to grow.
The Chapters should bring out guidelines on the
management of common pediatric problems pertaining to their subspeciality
as soon as possible and submit a copy to the Central IAP not later than
June 2000.
The Central IAP is creating a data bank of good
speakers in various sub-specialities. The Chapters are requested to
provide details to the Central IAP.
The Chapters should send copies of their
newsletters/bulletins to the Heads of Departments of Pediatrics and the
IAP Branches and the Members of the Central Executive Board.
The Chapters may suggest to the Central IAP
regarding affiliation to international societies of their sub-specialities.
On receiving required details from the Chapters, the Central IAP shall
process necessary papers for affiliation. This will encourage more
international conferences in the country.
There should be co-ordination between the Chapters
and the Heads of Depart-ments of Pediatrics in formulating a policy on
Undergraduate and Postgraduate curri-culum, which could be passed on to
the IAP Education Center.
| Meeting with the Heads of Departments |
The Heads of Departments should make further
contribution in the academic front by having a say in shaping the
Undergraduate and Postgraduate Curriculum through "IAP Education
Center".
The Heads of Departments should help to
create/activate "IAP Research Cell" and collect epidemiological
data, which could be passed on to the Central IAP.
Since the year 2000 has been declared as "IAPs
Year of Adolescent and Child at Risk", the Heads of Departments are
requested to involve themselves in a bigger way to make this program a
success. The "Child at Risk" program involves orphans, street
children, slum children, mentally and physically retarded, etc.
The Heads of Departments should fix a meeting with
the Private Practitioners at least once in a month in co-ordination with
local branhces.
The "IAP Heads of Departments Pediatrics
Cell" was formed to bring together all the Heads of the Department of
Pediatrics under one IAP umbrella. Dr. Madhuri Kulkarni was chosen as the
Chairperson and Dr. A.D. Tewari as the Secretary of this cell.
Swati Y. Bhave,
President,
Indian Academy of Pediatrics,
Kailash Darshan, Kennedy Bridge,
Mumbai 400 007, India.
E-mail: [email protected]
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