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STFM Membership Elects New Officers
Newly elected officers were announced at the STFM Business Meeting in conjunction with the Annual Spring Conference in Vancouver. Click on their names below to view their position statements.
Worthy Individuals Take Home Society Awards
During this year's Awards Program at the Annual Spring Conference, the following STFM members were honored for their accomplishments with the Society's most prestigious awards.
Click on the links above to view short biographies and photos of award winners.
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Family Medicine and the Department of Veteran Affairs Discuss the Potential for Future Collaborations
Leaders in the discipline of family medicine have been involved in discussions with leaders of the Department of Veterans Affairs since last summer on how the VA and family medicine can become more engaged. Our communications began at the August 2009 meeting of the family medicine Working Party, a biannual meeting of the leaders of the seven family medicine organizations where issues important to the discipline are discussed. At those meetings, leaders from the VA’s Office of Academic Affiliations (OAA) came to talk about their interest in working more closely with family medicine. Read More
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STFM Member Charles Mouton, MD, Named Dean
Meharry Medical College has named Charles Mouton, MD, the new dean of the School of Medicine and senior vice president for health affairs. Dr Mouton will start work on July 1. He currently serves as chair of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Howard University in Washington, DC. Dr Mouton is board certified in family medicine and geriatrics and has researched violence and mistreatment against elderly women, wellness, and disease prevention among elderly minorities, the role of ethnicity in aging and the quality of health care for minorities. Congratulations Dr Mouton!
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STFM Member Heidi Chumley, MD, Testifies on FY2011 Appropriations
Heidi Chumley, MD, senior associate dean for Medical Education and associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, testified during the House Labor-Health and Human Services-Education Appropriations Subcommittee's public witness hearing on FY2011 appropriations on May 12.
Dr Chumley testified regarding Health Professions and Nursing Education Coalition's (HPNEC) FY2011 appropriations recommendation of $600 million for the existing Title VII and Title VIII programs in FY2011, and called for an additional investment in the newly authorized health professions programs under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148). STFM and the other CAFM organizations are members of the HPNEC coalition. In her testimony, Dr Chumley stated that this level of funding "will not only help sustain the expansion in the health workforce supported in recent years, but will also help to ensure the programs are able to fulfill their mission of improving the supply, distribution, and diversity of health professionals nationwide."
She further called the subcommittee's attention to the significant role the Title VII and Title VIII programs already play in boosting the supply of primary care professionals, improving the diversity of the health care workforce, and providing a number of interdisciplinary training opportunities for students. Dr Chumley also spoke to the programs' impact at the University of Kansas (KU) School of Medicine, stating that the programs have funded over 400 scholarships and loans to KU health professions students and have ensured that over 5,000 students were able to participate in KU's health professions pipeline programs.
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Call For Papers Deadline Approaching for Conference on Medical Student Education
Submissions to the 2011 STFM Conference on Medical Student Education are invited in all areas that involve teaching of our medical students. MSE Conference Chair John Delzell, MD, MSPH is particularly interested in learning about the ways that you are teaching our medical students to think. Family medicine is a cognitive specialty that makes you well-suited to serve as role models, mentors, and as the primary educators in the cognitive processes of medical education.
Consider submissions in the following “hot topic” areas: clinical reasoning--how to facilitate learning and assess performance, professionalism--defining it, measuring it, and assessing it, and health care reform--how do we engage our students.
Submit your proposal today. Submission deadline June 14, 2010.
The Grant Generating Project Is Calling for Applications
Since 1995, The Grant Generating Project (GGP) has produced over 650 grant proposals, which has yielded more than $208.8 million in grants to Departments of Family of Medicine.
The GGP fellowship assists family medicine faculty in identifying and honing the critical skills needed to develop and submit competitive research grant proposals that result in the award of external funding. The GGP fellowship is open to all faculty of family medicine programs, both university and community based, who are interested in pursuing investigator-generated independent research on topics of interest to family medicine.
If interested in applying for the fellowship, individuals should complete a letter of intent by June 1, 2010. For more information, visit the GGP Web site, where you'll find a comprehensive description of the program and application forms.
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