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40th Annual Spring Conference
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Tuesday, April 24
1-5 pm, 7-8:30 pm
Wednesday, April 25
8 am - 5 pm
PR1: How Leaders Turn Dreams Into Reality: Successful Fund-raising in a Changing World
Laurence Bauer, MSW, MEd, Family Medicine Education Consortium, Inc, Dayton, Ohio; Stephen Bogdewic, PhD, Indiana University School of Medicine; James E. Gillespie, CFRE, CommonWealth and Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN; Alan Douglass, MD, Middlesex Hospital Family Medicine Residency Middletown, CT; Lee Vogel, MD, University of Wisconsin
This workshop is designed for those seeking to understand and to master the world of philanthropy. The US philanthropic community donated almost 250 billion dollars to worthy causes in 2004 over and above the large amounts of dollars awarded by federal and state agencies interested in health care. We believe leaders in family medicine have been setting their sights too low. There is need to dream big and to raise the funds to support our vision. This project will prepare participants, physicians and professional staff, seeking to succeed as vision-driven fundraisers. The workshop introduces the skills and knowledge needed to plan and implement a fund-raising initiative. An optional one-year intensive fellowship experience is also available for those who want on-going support while working towards a defined fund-raising goal. Participation in this workshop provides the initial training for the fellows. While fundraising is often seen as a “necessary evil,” this program will teach creative ways to understand the world of philanthropy, refine interpersonal skills, handle common problems, and invigorate enthusiasm for fundraising. Fund-raising will be understood as a way to fulfill the donor’s interests and desires, while advancing the recipients’ goals and project plans.
This workshop supports the New Partners Initiative of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. Through the New Partners Initiative, the leadership of STFM seeks to create relationships with foundations, corporations, government agencies and groups that share common interests with the family of Family Medicine.
(Additional fee: $450)
Wednesday, April 25
8 am - 5 pm
PR2: A Family Medicine Forum on Health Care Reform
A special preconference session has been developed to discuss the U.S. Health Care System, and how we can communicate with learners and colleagues about a role in making this system better.
Many faculty, residents, and students have limited knowledge of the overall structure, function and effectiveness of the US health care system, and how that system compares to the health care systems of other nations. The STFM has invited leaders in family medicine from around the country to advance the discussion of reform in our nation’s health care system.
This preconference session will provide a forum for information and dialogue on the current crisis in the US health care system, and discuss and define, from a family medicine perspective, how the system might be improved. The format will focus on three interrelated processes in the provision of health care to the American public: quality, cost containment, and access.
A panel presentation that describes a number of proposed “solutions”, including employee mandate, individual mandate, single payer, and single purchaser will also be featured. Attendees will then have the opportunity, through small-group discussion, to explore potential approaches to improving the system.
Confirmed speakers for the forum include Robert Graham, Robert Phillips, Susan Schooley, Kevin Grumbach, John Saultz, Daniel Lasser, and John Geyman. Please join your colleagues for this unique and important discussion around reform that is meaningful, and equitable and encompasses the principles and vision of family medicine.
(Fee: $100)
Wednesday, April 25
8 am - 5 pm
PR3: STFM Faculty Development Workshop Series Workshop III: Administrative and Management Skills for Academic Leadership
Coordinator: Robert William Smith MD, MBA, University of Pittsburgh.
Other faculty: Ray Walker, MD, MBA University of Tennessee, Memphis; Robert L. Buckley, MD, MBA Resurrection Health Care System, Chicago, Kathryn Stewart, MD, MPH, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Chicago.
This workshop provides participants with instruction in key management skills including role definition, time management, meeting management, prioritization, team building, and negotiation. Through this interactive session, participants will learn how to defend the prioritization of personal and professional activities to achieve balance, discuss and implement effective team-building strategies, practice essential negotiating skills, apply key principles of time management, practice group decision making, and learn how to more effectively manage meetings.
Workshop Objectives
- Know how to defend the prioritization of personal and professional activities to achieve balance
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Understand the essential elements of role definition
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Discuss and implement effective team-building strategies
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Practice essential negotiating skills
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Apply key principles of time management
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Practice group decision making in both small and large groups
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Understand how to effectively manage meetings
(Fee: $195; Enrollment for this workshop is limited to 25. )
Wednesday, April 25
1- 5 pm
PR4: STFM Faculty Development Workshop Series Workshop VII: Educational Scholarship: What’s in Your…?
Family medicine has a long-standing tradition of making educator’s work public, through our meetings, the STFM Bookstore, and listserves. However, with the emergence of Web-based educational repositories (eg, STFM’s Family Medicine Digital Resources Library, AAMC MedEdPORTAL), the products emerging from our daily work as educators can not only be made public, but peer reviewed consistent with the principles of scholarship. This hands-on workshop will help you identify those “daily work” products – course or rotation syllabi, PowerPoint slides, learner assessment tools, innovative teaching strategies, PDA forms – that can be re-crafted as a scholarly work that others can access, review, and use.
We will begin by asking you, “What’s in your __________ (file cabinet, desk drawer, flash driver, binder, standing pile somewhere on your desk)?” And then, using a combination of lectures, examples, and small-group break outs (led by an experienced facilitator whose work has been accepted in a peer-reviewed educational repository), we will outline how to reframe your work as an endurable education product suitable for repository submission. We will also touch on more traditional outlets for those good ideas that are “in your ______” but are not a match for traditional journal publications venues. While the emphasis for this workshop is on endurable products, we will provide a brief review of these other opportunities highlighting Academic Medicine’s “Teaching and Learning Moments,” Medical Education’s “Really Good Stuff” and Family Medicine’s ”For the Office Based Teacher of Family Medicine” and “Innovations in Family Medicine Education”.
More specifically, at the conclusion of the workshop attendees will be able to:
- Identify the key features of educational scholarship
- Identify daily activity products/ items that meet the criteria (or with minor revision could) associated with educational scholarship (eg, those items which emerge from daily educational roles, activities)
- List dissemination venues for educator’s scholarly work including peer reviewed repositories and journals
- Select an item and identify the key elements/tasks (with a timeline) needed to transform item into an endurable product for submission to a peer reviewed repository (eg, FMDRL, HEAL, MedEd PORTAL). (Note: Tasks include determining if there are co-authors, the need for instructor guide, copyright permission, etc).
- Draft selected sections of a submission form to a peer reviewed repository
- Leave with a sense of accomplishment and membership in a community of family medical educators.
(Fee: $100; Enrollment for this workshop is limited to 25.)
Wednesday, April 25
12:30 - 5:30 pm
PR5: Fun With Procedures! Learn How to Effectively Teach Procedures In Your Practice
Timothy Pollard, MD, Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Residency; John Andazola, MD Maricopa Medical Center; William Ellert, MD, Maricopa Medical Center; Stuart Forman, MD, Contra Costa Regional Medical Center FPR; Roger Garvin, MD, Family Medicine Spokane; Roberta Gebhard, DO Niagara Falls Memorial Med Center FMR; Kaparaboyna Ashok Kumar, MD University of Texas HSC at San Antonio; Dale Patterson, MD, The Toledo Hospital Family Medicine Residency; Linda Prine, MD, Beth Israel Program in Urban FP; Julie Sicilia, MD, Alaska FMR
In this preconference modeled after the ALSO instructor course, participants will teach and learn a choice of four procedures—subclavian line placement, vasectomy, endometrial biopsy, and excisional biopsy. Teaching methods will include small-group discussion, debate, and hands-on practice. We will begin with a 2-hour session on techniques for teaching procedures, and follow with a 3-hour session with hands-on practice and teaching. The preconference is sponsored by the STFM Group on Hospital Medicine and Procedural Training.
($125 additional fee)
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