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Mix equal parts tradition, camaraderie, diversity and innovative learning -- and you've just described the 2003 National Conference of Family Practice Residents and Medical Students Aug. 6 9 in Kansas City, Mo.
Celebrating its 30th year, AAFP's National Conference is still the only national meeting catering to today's and tomorrow's family physicians. This year's speakers and faculty bear witness to the Academy's commitment to prepare residents and students for the challenges and opportunities of the current practice environment -- and to ensure they will flourish in the health care delivery system of the future.
AAFP President James Martin, M.D., of San Antonio will bring the Academy's traditional greetings to students and residents at the meeting, but he'll depart from the norm of years past by delivering the conference's keynote address. As chair of the Academy's Future of Family Medicine Project Leadership Committee, Martin is in a unique position to catalog the discipline's past accomplishments while outlining goals it's now working to achieve.
A special addition to the speaker lineup this year, Kevin Soden, M.D., M.P.H., is an AAFP Fellow and national medical correspondent for NBC. He is also medical director for Texas Instruments and the Celanese Corp. and author of a book published this spring, The Art of Medicine: What Every Doctor and Patient Should Know. In his presentation, Soden will focus on contemporary health issues and the critical importance of the doctor/patient relationship.
Lori Alvord, M.D., associate dean of student affairs and multicultural affairs and assistant professor of surgery and psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, N.H., was the first woman Navajo surgeon in Gallup, N.M. Her book, The Scalpel and the Silver Bear, forms the core of university courses on women's health and cross-cultural medicine, especially issues specific to American Indians. Alvord will present the Stephen J. Jackson, M.D., Memorial Lecture.
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The AAFP 2003 Family Physician of the Year, Darrell Carter, M.D., of Granite Falls, Minn., is a rural health aficionado with many years' experience in stretching limited resources to meet whatever health challenges come his way -- from advanced life support crises to addictions counseling. He'll present two workshops -- "A Night in the Life of a Rural Emergency Medicine Team" and "Open Dialogue With the Family Physician of the Year."
Elizabeth Garrett, M.D., M.S.P.H., is immediate past president of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. A clinical professor of family medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia, she directs the family practice clerkship and required ambulatory clinical experience for first- and second-year students there. Garrett will lend her perspective on the current health care environment and how FPs are increasingly being looked to as leaders and innovators.
For more meeting details and registration information, visit http://www.aafp.org/conference.xml. Register by June 18 to save $25!
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