April 2001 • Volume 7 • Number 4
Show your face at this year's National Conference
Thomas Zuber, M.D., of Atlanta made good use of pigs' feet in teaching soft-tissue surgery at the 2000 National Conference. What better place is there to voice your opinions about family practice issues, hone your clinical skills and network with your peers than the 2001 National Conference of Family Practice Residents and Medical Students?
The theme for this year's event, to be held July 25 29 in Kansas City, Mo., is "The Many Faces of Family Medicine." At a special Wednesday forum, panelists will discuss how family practice has allowed them to pursue a wide range of interests, including direct patient care, teaching, administration, research and politics.
Smash hits at last year's conference, rappers John Clarke, M.D., and Matthew Clarke, M.D., of New York are back for a return engagement. Hear about the FP brothers' success in using music to reach that most confounding of patients -- the American teenager.
Delivering this year's Stephen A. Jackson, M.D., Memorial Lecture will be AAFP President-elect Warren Jones, M.D., of Potomac, Md. Jones, who recently retired as a captain in the U.S. Navy, is the first black FP chosen to lead the Academy.
Dennis Saver, M.D., of Vero Beach, Calif., AAFP's 2001 Family Physician of the Year, will be a guest lecturer at the 2001 conference. Long an advocate of caring for the medically underserved, Saver began his family practice career with a National Health Service Corps assignment that took him to the heart of rural Appalachia.
Social events include the opening party at historic Union Station/Science City, the traditional Picnic and Square Dance, and the annual Wellness Run/Walk.
New for 2001 are workshops on topics such as how to use the Internet in family practice, getting the most out of your personal digital assistant, and the pros and cons of using e-mail to communicate with patients. Another new offering is a July 25 full-day workshop on research skills -- a program the AAFP Foundation is sponsoring.
As always, the National Congress of Family Practice Residents and National Congress of Student Members give you a forum to express your views about what's going on in family practice today and where you think the specialty should be headed.
In addition to various workshops, there will be procedural skills courses, where you can test your clinical mettle in such areas as splinting and casting, joint injection, nasolaryngoscopy and suturing techniques.
For news of National Conference awards and scholarships (and patient education conference scholarships), see the story "Keep a Close Eye on Award, Grant Deadlines."
Early-bird registration for the National Conference ends June 8, so make your travel plans now. Take advantage of one of three easy ways to register: online at http://www.aafp.org/conference; by fax at (913) 906-6083; or by mail to Housing and Registration Department, c/o AAFP, 11400 Tomahawk Creek Parkway, Leawood, KS 66211-2672. Direct questions to conference@aafp.org or to (800) 926-6890, Ext. 6726.
FP Report is published by the AAFP News Department.
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