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Project DOCC, a groundbreaking national program for pediatric resident physicians, has a simple goal:
To improve each patient's quality of life by teaching resident physicians the effect of chronic illness on patients and their families.
Created in 1994 by three parents, Project DOCC's philosophy is that, by understanding how families deal with illness and or disabilities out side the hospital setting, pediatric resident physicians become better and more compassionate physicians.
Project DOCC's teachers - parents and guardians of children with special medical needs - provide physicians with a unique perspective on culturally effective, family-centered care.
Project DOCC Houston is a non-profit organization of families of children with special needs in the Houston area who provide a family faculty program for the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and the Department of Pediatrics at The University of Texas Medical School Houston.
Financial Support for Project DOCC at Baylor College of Medicine is provided by The Simmons Foundation and Jerry and Cindy Holditch. Financial Support for Project DOCC at The University of Texas Medical School Houston is provided by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities with Federal Funds* made available by the United States Dept. of Health and Human Services Administration on Developmental Disabilities *($69,333) (75%) DD funds; (25%) non-federal funds.
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