September 2002 • Volume 8 • Number
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• Resident & Student News
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New leaders, new ideas emerge from 2002
meeting for residents and students
On Aug. 3, delegates to the
National Congress of Family Practice Residents and National Congress of Student
Members elected the following representatives for the coming year:
- members of AAFP Board of Directors: Michael Coffey, M.D., of
Somerville, Mass.; Marc Carey, Ph.D., of Portland, Ore.
- resident National Conference chair: Saria Carter, M.D., of Davie,
Fla.
- student National Conference chair: Christina Sinar of Columbus,
Ohio
- alternate delegates to AAFP Congress: Chris Lupold, M.D., of East
Earl, Pa.; Carla Ainsworth, M.D., M.P.H., of Seattle; Gerard Stanley Jr. of
Omaha, Neb.; Tarayn Grizzard of Boston
- representatives to the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
Board of Directors: Juliette van Putten, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., of Columbus,
Ohio; Melissa Beagle of Hershey, Pa.
- national family medicine interest group coordinator: Daniel Lewis
of Hampton, Tenn.
- observer to the Association of Family Practice Residency Directors
Board of Directors: Drew Keister, M.D., of Waldorf, Md.
Coffey |
Carey |
Carter |
Sinar |
Nearly 60 resolutions were considered in the congresses this year.
Here are a few of those actions, with the source listed for each.
The congresses asked AAFP to do the following:
- Educate residents and medical students about professional
liability issues and support reform attempts. (NCFPR/NCSM)
- Work with the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, Residency
Review Committee for Family Practice and other such organizations to include in
clerkships and residency curricula information on documented health disparities
in medically underserved and minority communities. (NCFPR/NCSM)
- Enhance AAFP's minority recruiting efforts, keep members apprised
of the progress of those efforts and identify means to gauge their
effectiveness. (NCFPR/NCSM)
- Communicate to its resident members the full import of the lawsuit
brought against the National Resident Matching Program, the Accreditation
Council for Graduate Medical Education and others; inform residents how they
may withdraw from that lawsuit; and actively oppose the lawsuit. (NCFPR)
- Investigate how to disseminate information about available
research funds to residents and/or residency programs for research. (NCFPR)
- Investigate ways to implement the new ACGME guidelines on resident
duty hours in conjunction with ACGME. (NCFPR)
- Urge the National Board of Medical Examiners and Federation of
State Medical Boards to delay implementation of the clinical skills assessment
exam pending NBME investigation of methods to decrease the financial and travel
burdens on students taking the CSAE and release of those findings. (NCSM)
FP Report is published by the
AAFP News Department.
Copyright © 2002 by
American Academy of Family Physicians.
