The North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology Fellowship Family Tree.
OBJECTIVE
To create a family tree to chronicle the proliferation of our specialty through fellowships (formal and informal) within the pediatric and adolescent gynecology practice and among the membership of the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology (NASPAG). This historical project was undertaken as a way to demonstrate NASPAG's rich sense of heritage and community. The tree is meant to be a dynamic project, a living document, changing and expanding as this field of medicine grows, and offers a form of institutional memory for NASPAG.


METHODS
Questionnaires were sent out to all current NASPAG members via e-mail (and the list-serve) and were available at the 2014 NASPAG Annual Clinical and Research Meeting. Data from the questionnaires were recorded within GRAMPS 3.4.8, software used to create a family tree.


RESULTS
The result of the project was an elegant and intricate tree, containing 379 "family members" including physicians who specialize in pediatric and adolescent gynecology, adolescent medicine, reproductive endocrinology and infertility, and pediatric endocrinology.


CONCLUSIONS
The family tree, which shows how one mentor might train multiple trainees and how past trainees later become mentors, highlights the value of physicians who take on supervisory and educational roles and the existence of comprehensive and inspirational training programs.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Yael
Y
Pecchioli
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: maj3@queensu.ca.
Mary Anne
MA
Jamieson
D000293:Adolescent; D000295:Adolescent Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002648:Child; D005257:Fellowships and Scholarships; D005260:Female; D006176:Gynecology / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010375:Pedigree; D010820:Physicians; D012955:Societies, Medical; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States
Adolescent and pediatric gynecology; Adolescent medicine; Family tree; North American Society for Adolescent and Pediatric Gynecology