Be there when families have questions about their child’s health. Day or night.
A fever spikes. A rash appears. A medication question comes up long after the office is closed. Give families reliable pediatric health information they can turn to from your practice website, whether they’re looking for guidance after a visit or searching for answers in the middle of the night. They get a source they can trust, while your team can spend less time fielding questions that don’t require a call.
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Give families better answers. Give your team fewer interruptions.
Help parents find reliable pediatric health information without sorting through search results, social media, forums, and conflicting advice.
Give families a resource for common health questions that might otherwise end up with your staff, freeing your team to focus on the patients and tasks that need their attention.
Extend the value your practice provides between appointments, helping families feel supported through the everyday questions and concerns that come with raising a child.
Put trusted pediatric resources right on your own website.
Give families access to hundreds of articles on children’s health and development, including content from the American Academy of Pediatrics, covering questions and concerns from infancy through young adulthood.
Dr. Barton Schmitt’s Visual Symptom Checker helps parents make sense of symptoms and better understand what to do next, including when to seek medical care.
Give families quick access to age- and weight-appropriate OTC medication dosing information, helping them make safer decisions at home without needing to call the office for every dosing question.
Round out your website with pediatric resources on breastfeeding, development, parenting, common health concerns, kid-friendly videos, and Spanish-language content so families can find useful information across a much wider range of needs.
How the library compares to a late-night internet search.
What pediatric practices want to know about patient education.
A pediatric patient education library gives families access to reliable health information directly from your practice website. It can help answer common questions about symptoms, medications, development, parenting, and other health concerns that come up between visits, while helping your practice reduce routine calls and stay connected with families beyond the exam room.
Unlike general health content, Office Practicum’s patient education is focused on children and the questions families bring to pediatric practices. The library includes content from recognized pediatric authorities, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and Dr. Barton Schmitt, so practices can offer information grounded in pediatric expertise.
Developed by pediatrician Dr. Barton Schmitt, Is Your Child Sick?™ helps parents evaluate common childhood symptoms, understand what they can safely manage at home, and recognize when it’s time to call their pediatrician or seek medical care. The evidence-based guidance is updated annually and gives families a trusted way to make more informed decisions when their child is sick.
Yes. Families can access pediatric OTC medication dosing information directly from your website, giving them a convenient place to check dosing when questions come up at home. It also helps keep families on your practice website instead of relying on a general internet search for medication guidance.
Yes. The patient education library is available in Spanish, helping your practice provide more consistent health information to Spanish-speaking families and extend the same level of support to them between visits.
It can. Many calls to pediatric practices start with common questions about symptoms, medication dosing, or what parents should do next. When families can find that guidance directly on your website, some of those questions can be resolved before they become a phone call, easing call volume without limiting access to your team when a conversation or medical care is needed.
Patient education content is maintained and updated by its original clinical sources, so your practice doesn’t have to spend time reviewing, rewriting, or manually maintaining hundreds of health resources on your website.