Teaching learners to care for children and youth with special health care needs.

(Fam Med 2007;39(2):85-7.) Editor’s Note: In this month’s column, Sweety Jain, MD, of the Lehigh Valley Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program in Allentown, Pa, discusses how residents and medical students can learn to care for children and youth with special health care needs in a family physician’s office. I welcome your comments about this feature, which is also published on the STFM Web site at www. stfm.org. I also encourage all predoctoral directors to make copies of this feature and distribute it to their preceptors (with the appropriate Family Medicine citation). Send your submissions to williamh@bcm. tmc.edu. William Huang, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, 3701 Kirby, Suite 600, Houston, TX 77098-3926. 713-798-6271. Fax: 713-798-7789. Submissions should be no longer than 3–4 double-spaced pages. References can be used but are not required. Count each table or figure as one page of text.