This schedule is subject to change and will be updated this summer with detailed course descriptions.
Proposed Schedule and Topics
Thursday, September 4, 2008
7:50 - 8:00 a.m.
- Welcome & Introduction (Daniel Ostergaard, MD, Calvin Wilson, MD, and Alex Ivanov, MBA)
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
- Global needs in primary health care (General Session 1: Tom Hall, MD)
9:15 - 10:15 a.m.
- Women family physicians in global health (Breakout Session 1: Cynthia Haq, MD)
- Wonca and other international organizations as resources (Breakout Session 2: Alain Montegut, MD, and Daniel Ostergaard, MD)
- Development of international family medicine faculty (Breakout Session 3: Stephen Spann, MD)
- Funding and funders of family medicine international projects (Breakout Session 4: Brian Jack, MD)
- Breadth and depth of international family medicine consultations (Breakout Session 5: Warren Heffron, MD)
- Innovative methods for improving the primary health care worker shortage (Breakout Session 6: Tom Hall, MD)
10:15 - 10:45 a.m.
- Refreshment Break
10:45 - 11:45 a.m.
- Women family physicians in global health (Breakout Session 7: Cynthia Haq)
- Wonca and other international organizations as resources (Breakout Session 8: Alain Montegut, MD, and Daniel Ostergaard, MD)
- Development of international family medicine faculty (Breakout Session 9: Stephen Spann, MD)
- Funding and funders of family medicine international projects (Breakout Session 10: Brian Jack, MD)
- How to assess the "politics" around international consultations (Breakout Session 11: Warren Heffron, MD)
- Innovative methods for improving the primary health care worker shortage (Breakout Session 12: Tom Hall, MD)
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
- Lunch
1:00- 2:00 p.m.
- Lessons learned from international rotations for students and residents (General Session 2: Calvin Wilson, MD, with a student/resident panel)
2:15 - 3:15 p.m.
- The effects of culture on family medicine education in China (Breakout Session 13: Peter Burgos, MD, Chris Jenkins, MD, and Chris Place, MD)
- How to develop a global health residency track (Breakout Session 14: Andrew Bazemore, MD, and Phil Diller, MD)
- The international rotation: A valuable educational experience for residents and students for learning about the family medicine model of care (Breakout Session 15: Amy McGaha, MD, and Perry Pugno, MD)
- Tropical diseases: Malaria and other parasitic diseases (Breakout Session 16: Calvin Wilson, MD)
- Diabetes and cardiovascular problems in the developing world (Breakout Session 17: Stephen Spann, MD)
- HIV/AIDS care in the context of fiscal realities: The Lesotho experience (Breakout Session 18: Brian Jack, MD)
3:15 - 3:45 p.m.
- Refreshment Break
3:45 - 4:45 p.m.
- The effects of culture on family medicine education in China (Breakout Session 19: Peter Burgos, MD, Chris Jenkins, MD, and Chris Place, MD)
- How to develop a global health residency track (Breakout Session 20: Andrew Bazemore, MD, and Phil Diller, MD)
- The international rotation: A valuable educational experience for residents and students for learning about the family medicine model of care (Breakout Session 21: Amy McGaha, MD, and Perry Pugno, MD)
- Tropical diseases: Malaria and other parasitic diseases (Breakout Session 22: Calvin Wilson, MD)
- Diabetes and cardiovascular problems in the developing world (Breakout Session 23: Stephen Spann, MD)
- HIV/AIDS care in the context of fiscal realities: The Lesotho experience (Breakout Session 24: Brian Jack, MD)
4:45 - 5:15 p.m.
- Mountains of Hope: The Kingdom of Lesotho's Fight for Health Care (Breakout Session 25: DVD documentary)
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
- Networking Reception with Poster Opportunities
Friday, September 5, 2008
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
- The boundaries of family medicine in resource-poor countries (General Session 3: Stephen Spann, MD)
9:15 - 10:15 a.m.
- The use of appropriate technology in resource-poor countries (Breakout Session 1: Douglas Jackson and Calvin Wilson, MD)
- Continuing professional development in sensitive cultures (Breakout Session 2: Mark Huntington, MD)
- Keeping practice afloat while serving abroad (Breakout Session 3: Keith Brown, MD, and David Miller, MD)
- Raising a family in a developing country (Breakout Session 4: Erin Fonken and Paul Fonken, MD, and Mimi Wilson, RN)
- Getting started in global health: Strategies to build an integrated and rewarding life (Breakout Session 5: Cynthia Haq, MD)
- How to develop a global track for students in medical school (Breakout Session 6: Andrew Kestler, MD, and students from the University of Colorado)
10:15 - 10:45 a.m.
- Refreshment Break
10:45 - 11:45 a.m.
- Training allied health workers of the international family medicine team (Breakout Session 7: Elizabeth Henry, MD, and Lauren Babich, MD)
- Continuing professional development in sensitive cultures (Breakout Session 8: Mark Huntington, MD)
- Keeping practice afloat while serving abroad (Breakout Session 9: Keith Brown, MD, and David Miller, MD)
- Raising a family in a developing country (Breakout Session 10: Erin Fonken and Paul Fonken, MD, and Mimi Wilson, RN)
- Getting started in global health: Strategies to build an integrated and rewarding life (Breakout Session 11: Cynthia Haq, MD)
- How to develop a global track for students in medical school (Breakout Session 12: Andrew Kestler, MD, and students from the University of Colorado)
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
- Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
- Global health and academic medicine: Family doctors as leaders of global health (General Session 4: Cynthia Haq, MD)
2:15 - 2:50 p.m.
- Sustaining global health through a fellowship (Peer Session 1: Scott F Loeliger, MD, MS)
- An international health elective in Israel/Palestine (Peer Session 3: David McRay, MD, and Douglas Brown, PhD)
- Introducing the American Board of Family Medicine in-training assessment exam in Macau, China (Peer Session 5: Chris Place, MD)
- Travel medicine: Staying healthy in the global setting (Peer Session 7: Carol O'Dell, FNP)
- International collaboration: Lessons from a community-based participatory research project in Ghana (Peer Session 9: Peter A. de Schweinitz, MD)
- International development of the Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics program (Peer Session 11: Mark E. Deutchman, MD)
2:55 - 3:30 pm
- Primary care thirty years after Alma-Ata: What have we learned? (Peer Session 2: Leto Qualres, MD, and Alex Ivanov, MBA)
- International Medicine Track: Advantages for resident/student recruitment and compliance with ACGME Core Competencies (Peer Session 4: Stoney Abercrombie, MD, and Diana Clemow, MD)
- Applying the principles of community-oriented primary care to international medical projects (Peer Session 6: Mark Ryan, MD, and David Aday, PhD)
- Three-year review of an international family medicine clerkship pilot program (Peer Session 8: Javier Sevilla, MD, and Scott Renshaw, MD)
- Family medicine in Iraq (Peer Session 10: Hassan HB Al Kazzaz, MD)
- Development and implementation of family medicine-based prenatal care in post-war Kosovo (Peer Session 12: Fay Homan, MD, Cristina Hammond, MPH, and Ellen F. Thompson, RN)
3:30 - 3:45 p.m.
- Refreshment Break
3:45 - 4:20 p.m.
- An innovative international faculty development program in family medicine (Peer Session 13: Jeffrey Markuns, MD, EdM, Alain J. Montegut, MD, and Elizabeth Henry, MHS)
- Needs assessment of Wisconsin primary care residents and faculty regarding interest in global health training (Peer Session 15: Terese A. Bauer, MD)
- Blessings and curses of partnerships in developing primary care in limited-resource nations (Peer Session 17: Jeffrey Hall, MD)
- Developing sustainable health care systems in emerging markets (Peer Session 19: William E. Chavey, MD, MS)
- Today's world health challenges (Peer Session 21: Nicholas Comninellis, MD)
- Teaching family medicine to undergraduate medical students: Jazan Medical School experience (Peer Session 23: Patrick Tranmer, MD, MPH, Ibrahim Bani MD, PhD, and Hussein Ageely, MD)
4:25- 5:00 p.m.
- Family medicine department's approach to immigrant health in the context of global health (Peer Session 14: Gaylen Kelton, MD, Javier Sevilla, MD, and Douglas McKeag, MD)
- Developing international partnerships with Japan for the creation and implementation of rural family medicine practices (Peer Session 16: Meg Hayes, MD, Benjamin Cox, MBA, and Heidi Elliott, BS)
- Family practice training initiative in Malawi (Peer Session 18: Martha Sommers, MD, and Maono Ngwira, MBChB)
- Essential teaching skills for GP faculty in medical systems where GP is a new specialty (Peer Session 20: Chris Jenkins, MD, Chris Place, MD, and Peter Burgos, MD)
- Ethics for global heath: Guidelines and curricula for residents (Peer Session 22: Scott Loeliger, MD, MS, and Evaleen Jones, MD)
Saturday, September 6, 2008
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
- Top-down or bottom-up: Designing primary health care programs that work for the country (General Session 5: Brian Jack, MD)
9:00 - 9:45 a.m.
- Putting this all together and producing sustainable solutions (General Session 6: Alain Montegut, MD, and Warren Heffron, MD)
9:45 - 10:00 a.m.
- Refreshment Break
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
- Responsibilities and opportunities in international family medicine: Wrapping it up (General Session 7: Daniel Ostergaard, MD)
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