Family Medicine Global Health Workshop

2013 Family Medicine Global Health Workshop
October 10-12, 2013
Hyatt Regency Inner Harbor
Baltimore, MD

Connect with people and places. Learn what only experience can teach you.

• Get started in global health
• Strengthen your capacity to contribute to global health programs
• Prepare to serve as family medicine consultants and organize and conduct a GH consultation
• Broaden your clinical knowledge about diseases rarely encountered in your home country
• Evaluate the practical management of chronic diseases in resource-constrained settings
• Strengthen preparation of students, residents and physicians for global health fieldwork
• Promote family medicine faculty development

For more information, please contact Rebecca Janssen or Alex Ivanov.

CME Credit

Application for CME credit has been filed with the American Academy of Family Physicians. Determination of credit is pending.

Registration Fees

View the Cancelation & Course Refund Policy.

Hotel Reservations

Hyatt Regency Baltimore on the Inner Harbor
300 Light Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
410-528-1234
888-233-1234

Make your reservation online(resweb.passkey.com) and receive the discounted AAFP rate of $149/night. The deadline for hotel reservations with the discounted rate is September 9, 2013.

Call for Abstracts

The AAFP Center for International Health Initiatives invites attendees to share their international experiences in developing and promoting family medicine worldwide at the 2013 AAFP Family Medicine Global Health Workshop, to be held October 10-12 at the Hyatt Regency Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland.

The deadline for peer presentation abstract and poster abstract submissions is June 15, 2013.

• Lessons learned from global health
• Ways to improve and strengthen health care systems through the development of family medicine
• International family medicine consultations on health care delivery and human resources for health issues in low- and middle-income countries
• Impact of international rotations and experiences on students’ and residents’ development as medical doctors
• Global clinical issues in resource-poor countries
• Sustainability implications for short-term international projects or partnerships
• Global impact of family medicine development

We greatly encourage abstract submissions by students and residents. We also invite participation by health professionals beyond the specialty of family medicine.

Full Disclosure of CME Activities

The "Full Disclosure for CME Activities” form must now be completed online by each presenter, co-presenter and author, prior to the workshop. 

If you are an AAFP member, please follow these instructions to submit your form online:

• Go to: http://www.aafp.org/about/the-aafp/history/conflict-interest.html or copy this link into the URL
• Key in AAFP ID numbers and last name or password.
• Press submit.
• Select Option 1.
• If there is nothing to disclose, check the appropriate box.
• If there are disclosures, please check the appropriate box and all that apply.
• When the “submit” button is pressed, the Conflict of Interest form is submitted to the central database.
• When you have finished, please send me a brief email letting me know that your form has been created/updated.

If you are not an AAFP member, please follow these instructions to submit your form online:

• Create an AAFP.org account.
• Follow the instructions to set up an AAFP account.
• Go to: http://www.aafp.org/about/the-aafp/history/conflict-interest.html or copy this link into the URL
• Select the Option 1 link.
• If there is nothing to disclose, check the appropriate box.
• If there are disclosures, please check the appropriate box and all that apply.
• When the “submit” button is pressed, the Conflict of Interest form is submitted to the central database.
• When you have finished, please send me a brief email letting me know that your form has been created.

Exhibitors

Global health-focused exhibits are a great opportunity for you to get concentrated exposure to individuals who have a keen interest in all aspects of international health. Consider exhibiting if you:

• Offer volunteer or international health opportunities
• Work in undeveloped and underserved regions around the globe
• Collect and donate medical equipment and supplies
• Offer any financial aid (student loan repayment) for those health professionals who intend to work globally in underserved communities
• Promote global health through community initiatives and service learning
• Offer CME for local doctors in underserved communities globally
• Offer cultural and language training for U.S. health professionals
• Administer international health programs (rotation/area of concentration/fellowship) via a medical school or a family residency program
• Offer services and products useful for health care professionals in their everyday practice locally and abroad

Exhibitor guidelines and application(5 page DOC)(5 page DOC)

To exhibit, submit your completed application form by e-mail to Alex Ivanov, by fax to 913-906-6091, or by mail to:

AAFP International Department
American Academy of Family Physicians
11400 Tomahawk Creek Parkway
Leawood, KS 66211

Questions? Contact Alex Ivanov at 800-274-2237 ext. 4510.

Schedule

Thursday, October 10

Friday, October 11

Saturday, October 12