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The Medicine-Pediatrics Program Directors Association (MPPDA) is a membership organization created to support combined medicine-pediatric residency training programs. The mission of the MPPDA is to improve medical training in this combined specialty and promote the growth and development of medicine-pediatrics programs. MPPDA continues to support and improve quality medical care by fostering and maintaining high standards in the training of medicine-pediatrics physicians.
MPPDA continues to work closely with the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM) and the Association of Pediatric Program Directors (APPD).
There are currently 95 combined medicine-pediatric residency training programs with over 1,000 residents in training. MPPDA has recently been nationally recognized by election into the Primary Care Organizations Consortium (PCOC) establishing medicine-pediatrics as a unique primary care specialty which combines the strength of its two parent disciplines.
Membership within MPPDA includes any of the following:
- Medicine-Pediatrics Program Director
- Medicine-Pediatrics Program Coordinator
- Medicine Program Director
- Deptartment of Medicine Chair or Deptartment of Pediatrics Chair who has sole or shared responsibility for a medicine-pediatric residency training program.
Additionally, program directors must have membership in each program directors association for which they are eligible, with each component specialty program demonstrating membership in good standing within both APDIM and APPD.
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