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Two Bylaws Changes Proposed by STFM Board of Directors
The STFM Board of Directors is bringing to the membership two bylaws changes. One proposed bylaws change relates a proposal brought forward by the STFM Membership Committee, and approved by the Board, to create a new membership category--a Lifetime Membership. The second proposed Bylaws change is to modify the process by which bylaws and the Articles of Incorporation are modified.
Click Here to download the proposed Bylaws changes and view the specific bylaws we wish to amend with tracked changes to show what is being changed. The changes would take effect immediately after the membership vote. The STFM membership will vote on these bylaws changes at the Annual Business Meeting on Saturday, April 30, 2011 during the STFM Annual Spring Conference.
Annual Spring Conference Update and Reminder
Accountable Care Organizations, Work/Life Balance, Evidence-based Behavioral Practice and Alcohol Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) are the topics featured in our preconference workshops in New Orleans.
Click here to learn more. Be sure to register TODAY -- there are early registration incentive prizes that we will be drawing for at 5 pm.
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Benefits of Co-training Family Medicine Residents and Mental Health Professionals
Research demonstrates that patients have many unmet mental health needs and are more likely to address these with their primary care physicians than to seek out mental health services. In this Education Column, Michele Smith, PhD, discusses how joint training of family medicine residents and mental health professionals is a creative way to enhance behavioral health training and increase integrated psychosocial care for patients.
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Online Voting Opens for 2011 Board of Directors Election
Eligible STFM members received an e-mail this week announcing the opening of the online voting system. Voters can access their individual ballot
HERE using their e-mail (the one STFM has on file for them) and their Member ID.
Visit the
candidates' Web page to view candidates' photos, personal history, position statements, and question/answers and learn more about STFM's new election process.
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Connecting Students to Health Careers—A Colorado Area Health Education Center Program
In this family medicine pipeline feature, learn about Racheal Keller. Her mother is Latino and she comes from a disadvantaged background. She funded her college education by working as a CNA and various other health career-related jobs. Rachael is highly motivated to become a doctor and serve urban underserved communities connecting to her family’s background.
Racheal is a graduate of the Colorado AHEC Program, Aurora Lights (LeadInG the way to careers in HealTh Sciences). As part of this program, students such as Racheal may receive Medical College Admission Test help. She applied and was selected to be one of the Aurora LIGHTS yearlong MCAT Kaplan preparatory course participants.
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AHRQ Releases User Guide on Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Effective Health Care (EHC) Program releases this second edition handbook, which has been completely updated and includes four new sections addressing emerging topics in registry science: (1) When to Stop a Registry; Use of Registries in Product Safety Assessment, (2) Linking Registry Data, (3)Technical and Legal Considerations, and (4) Interfacing Registries and Electronic Health Records. You can access the handbook
here. To order printed copies, call 800-358-9295.
Member Kudos
Thomas Schwenk, MD, has been named vice president of the University of Nevada, Reno's Division of Health Sciences and dean of the University of Nevada School of Medicine.
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Russell Robertson, MD, has been named vice president of Medical Affairs at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, and dean of the University’s Chicago Medical School.
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Maryjean Schenk, MD, MPH, is named vice dean for medical education at Wayne State University. She will lead overhaul of the medical school curriculum.
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Richelle Koopman, MD, MS, University of Missouri-Columbia, won the 2010 Dorsett L. Spurgeon, MD, Distinguished Medical Research Award. This award was created to recognize outstanding achievements by MU medical school faculty in the early stages of their careers. Dr Koopman is the fourth Department of Family Medicine faculty member to win the Spurgeon Distinguished Medical Research Award since 2005.
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