Monday, November 1, 2004

Spencer Stith, AAFP manager of international activities, and Dan Ostergaard, MD, AAFP vice president for international and interprofessional activities, discuss the schedule for Monday during a trip to the city of Kutaisi. The Physicians With Heart delegation temporarily divided into four teams to visit hospitals and conduct work throughout the country.

Part of the team in Kutaisi participates in a round table discussion with a group of Georgian family medicine trainers. Meanwhile, others from the team traveled to the Lanckhuti Polyclinic in Guria to document the arrival of donated medicines.

Stephen Meyer, a representative of Welch Allyn, shakes hands with the head physician of the Regional Rehabilitation Center for Invalids and Elderly in Kutaisi after presenting him with a set of medical instruments. Assisting with the presentation were Bruce Bagley, MD, AAFP director of quality services, and Nani Dvali, communication manager for ACTS Georgia.

Georgian physicians scan booklets of information provided by the Physicians With Heart project. The booklets--part of the pharmaceutical update provided at each recipient site that was visited by a delegation team--were printed in Georgian especially for this year’s project.