Delegates refer resident/student ideas to Board
Each summer, the resident and student congresses debate and pass resolutions that might create new AAFP policies.
Last month, when the AAFP Congress of Delegates considered four resident/student resolutions, delegates referred them to the Board for more study.
If you went to this summer's National Congress of Family Practice Residents/National Congress of Student Members in Kansas City, Mo., you might have defended the resolutions. They're still in the pipeline, and they ask the AAFP to:
- create a committee on inner- city/urban health;
- offer investments in retirement programs that exclude stocks deriving income from tobacco and/or tobacco-related products, and continue moving toward divestiture of all tobacco and/or tobacco-related companies;
- allow a resident to serve on the AAFP delegation to the AMA; and
- develop a national day for medical students and communities to recognize and promote family practice -- a day to replace National Primary Care Day, no longer funded by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
