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Direct Observation: What Is It and How to Effectively Perform It.
The purpose of residency education is to train physicians to care effectively for patients. Though resource intensive, direct observation (DO) is a terrific tool for formative and summative feedback that is part of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) toolbox for evaluation. DO involves carefully and purposefully watching and listening to a resident work through a patient encounter. In this Education Column, Drs Wilson and Shelesky discuss the advantages of direct observation for teachers and learners.
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New Login Scheme Coming to STFM.org.
STFM will be implementing a new more user-friendly login scheme on the STFM Web site. STFM members will be notified, via e-mail on August 15, 2011, of this change with instructions on how to log in and set a new password. Once the user's account is set up, the user will be able to log in with a username/password combination and will not be required to remember their STFM Account ID. Additional benefits for users will be the ability to reset your password when needed and stronger personal data security.
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Highlight Your Colleagues Great Work and Dedication to Family Medicine.
The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine is now accepting nominations for the STFM leadership, research, teaching, and advocacy awards. These awards will be presented at the 2012 STFM Annual Spring Conference, April 25–29, in Seattle. For complete award information, including nomination forms and lists of previous winners, click on the specific awards below or visit
www.stfm.org/about/awards.cfm.
F. Marian Bishop
Award—Nomination deadline is October 15, 2011
Nomination deadline for the awards below is October 19, 2011.
Nomination deadline for the awards below is November 11, 2011.
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Redesign Your Practice. Improve Patient Care. Sustain Your Changes.
By attending the
Conference on Practice Improvement, you’ll learn to organize your practice around your patients, streamline processes, engage staff, increase revenue, and provide consistent, evidence-based care. You’ll learn from those who know best—primary care providers, researchers, and practice staff who have redesigned their practices into Patient-centered Medical Homes.
Click Here to learn more and to register.
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Five STFM Members Participate in the 2011-2012 Grant Generating Project Fellowship.
Grant Generating Project (GGP) scholars participate in a year-long program based at Virginia Commonwealth University designed to provide increased research capacity in securing competitive funding for grants and contracts in the discipline of family medicine. To date, GGP alumni have reported more than $336 million in funded grants as either principal investigators, coinvestigators, or in other significant roles, since participating in the program.
STFM Members participating in the 2011-2012 fellowship are:
Joel Dickerman, DO, St. Mary Corwin FMR, Colorado Springs, CO
Melissa Bradner, MD, MSHA, Virginia Commonwealth University
Morteza Khodaee, MD, MPH, University of Colorado, Denver
Hazel Tapp, PhD, Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, NC
Maili Velez-Dalla Tor, MD, Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital FMR, Hacienda Heights, CA
STFM, along with the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation and the North American Primary Care Research Group, are organizational sponsors of the GGP. STFM member Daniel Longo, ScD, director of research for the Department of Family Medicine in the VCU School of Medicine serves as director of the GGP.
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