Medical training addressing the care of children with medical complexity is usually delivered by health care professionals in grand rounds sessions and in medical education, with a focus on medical diagnosis and treatment. Families’ experiences are typically included on an ad hoc basis only, leading to a further disconnect between families and providers. Family-Led Academic Grand (FLAG) Rounds are designed to flip the traditional grand rounds model by preparing families to be primary medical educators. Danielle Gerber, family engagement specialist in the Division of Hospital Medicine and Complex Care, was awarded a $179,662 grant entitled, “Learning from Lived Experience: National Pediatric Family Faculty Grand Rounds,” from the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health to host and produce five virtual quarterly pediatric Family-Led Academic Grand (“FLAG”) Rounds.
Ryan Coller, MD, MPH, and Heidi Kloster, MD, also in the Division of Hospital Medicine and Complex Care, will serve as senior advisors on this project, with the objective of using storytelling and didactic lecture to demonstrate the power and capability of the narratives of lived experience as tools for education and to illustrate how to partner with families of children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) in care. The target audience will be medical students and pediatric residents. Continuing medical education credits will be available, and sessions will be open to the public.