Quimby McCaskill, MD, MPH, a University of Florida assistant professor of pediatrics and former UF Jacksonville pediatrics resident, has co-authored Educating the Next Generation of Pediatricians in Urban Health Care: The Anne E. Dyson Community Pediatrics Training Initiative. The article appeared in the December issue of Academic Medicine.
McCaskill is associate director of the Dyson Initiative in Community Pediatrics at UF Jacksonville, one of 12 programs at 10 sites nationwide launched by the Dyson Foundation in 2000 as part of the Anne E. Dyson Community Pediatrics Training Initiative. The article describes how the Initiative’s programs have incorporated teaching community pediatrics into their standard rotations and continuity clinics.