Today is a birthday of sorts. PediatricEducation.org is 20 years old.
When we started writing cases in 2004 we never imagined we would be continuing for this long.
By the numbers today is the 926th case. In PediatricEducation.org are more than 200 differential diagnoses, 140 images, 6 curriculum maps, and we include every age group, specialty, and symptom. Back in 2004 the National Library of Medicine had just over 700 diseases in their MedlinePlus library and we hoped to include many of them in the future. Over the past 20 years, we have included more than 1100 diseases.
We don’t time specific cases for publication on specific days, but it seems just right that on our birthday a foundational pediatric topic arose: common vaccine questions.
We thank you for being our patrons, whether you joined us at our birth or along the way in toddlerhood, being a school ager or adolescent. Today we are becoming young adults and hope you stay with us to see where it takes us.
Donna D’Alessandro and Michael D’Alessandro, curators.