Canadian Paediatric Society
Encyclopedia
The Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) is a national association of paediatricians, committed to working together to advance the health of children and youth by nurturing excellence in health care
, advocacy
, education
, research
and support of its membership.
As a voluntary professional association, the CPS represents more than 2,500 paediatricians, paediatric subspecialists
, paediatric residents
, and other people who work with and care for children. The CPS is governed by an elected Board of Directors representing each province and territory.
To fulfill its mission, the CPS is active in several major areas:
Professional education: The CPS supports the continuing professional development
needs of paediatricians and others involved in providing health care to children and youth through position statements, a peer-reviewed journal, and educational opportunities such as an annual conference
and regional CME
events.
Advocacy: The CPS works to identify gaps in and promote improvements to public policy
that affects the health of children and youth.
Public education: The CPS works to increase public awareness
and education about the health needs and health care of children and youth. Our goal is to help parent
s make informed decisions about their children’s health by producing reliable and accessible health information for parents and others who care for children.
Surveillance and research: The CPS monitors rare disease
s and conditions through the Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program, and ensures continued research into vaccine
-associated adverse reactions and vaccine-preventable diseases
through IMPACT (Immunization Monitoring Program, ACTive).
Health care
Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers...
, advocacy
Advocacy
Advocacy is a political process by an individual or a large group which normally aims to influence public-policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions; it may be motivated from moral, ethical or faith principles or simply to protect an...
, education
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
, research
Research
Research can be defined as the scientific search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, to establish novel facts, solve new or existing problems, prove new ideas, or develop new theories, usually using a scientific method...
and support of its membership.
As a voluntary professional association, the CPS represents more than 2,500 paediatricians, paediatric subspecialists
Subspecialty
A subspecialty is narrow field within a specialty such as forensic pathology, which is a subspecialty of anatomical pathology. A subspecialist is a specialist of a subspecialty....
, paediatric residents
Residency (medicine)
Residency is a stage of graduate medical training. A resident physician or resident is a person who has received a medical degree , Podiatric degree , Dental Degree and who practices...
, and other people who work with and care for children. The CPS is governed by an elected Board of Directors representing each province and territory.
To fulfill its mission, the CPS is active in several major areas:
Professional education: The CPS supports the continuing professional development
Continuing Professional Development
Continuing professional development or Continuing professional education is the means by which people maintain their knowledge and skills related to their professional lives.-CPD research:...
needs of paediatricians and others involved in providing health care to children and youth through position statements, a peer-reviewed journal, and educational opportunities such as an annual conference
Academic conference
An academic conference or symposium is a conference for researchers to present and discuss their work. Together with academic or scientific journals, conferences provide an important channel for exchange of information between researchers.-Overview:Conferences are usually composed of various...
and regional CME
Continuing medical education
Continuing medical education refers to a specific form of continuing education that helps those in the medical field maintain competence and learn about new and developing areas of their field. These activities may take place as live events, written publications, online programs, audio, video, or...
events.
Advocacy: The CPS works to identify gaps in and promote improvements to public policy
Public policy
Public policy as government action is generally the principled guide to action taken by the administrative or executive branches of the state with regard to a class of issues in a manner consistent with law and institutional customs. In general, the foundation is the pertinent national and...
that affects the health of children and youth.
Public education: The CPS works to increase public awareness
Awareness
Awareness is the state or ability to perceive, to feel, or to be conscious of events, objects or sensory patterns. In this level of consciousness, sense data can be confirmed by an observer without necessarily implying understanding. More broadly, it is the state or quality of being aware of...
and education about the health needs and health care of children and youth. Our goal is to help parent
Parent
A parent is a caretaker of the offspring in their own species. In humans, a parent is of a child . Children can have one or more parents, but they must have two biological parents. Biological parents consist of the male who sired the child and the female who gave birth to the child...
s make informed decisions about their children’s health by producing reliable and accessible health information for parents and others who care for children.
Surveillance and research: The CPS monitors rare disease
Rare disease
A rare disease, also referred to as an orphan disease, is any disease that affects a small percentage of the population.Most rare diseases are genetic, and thus are present throughout the person's entire life, even if symptoms do not immediately appear...
s and conditions through the Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program, and ensures continued research into vaccine
Vaccine
A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism, and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe or its toxins...
-associated adverse reactions and vaccine-preventable diseases
Vaccine-preventable diseases
A vaccine-preventable disease is an infectious disease for which an effective preventive vaccine exists. If a person acquires a vaccine-preventable disease and dies from it, the death is considered a vaccine-preventable death....
through IMPACT (Immunization Monitoring Program, ACTive).