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Friday, January 26
8:30-10 am
"From Here to There: Questions, Choices, Legacy "
Elizabeth Garrett, MD, MSPH, University of Missouri, Columbia
We are being asked to consider the future of family medicine and, specifically, that future as it relates to our students. As predoctoral educators we work with, teach, plan for, and live alongside students more than anyone else in the family of family medicine. That gives us both significant credibility and, to many, a high level of accountability. What is the future destination of family medicine as seen from our perspective and how do we get there from here? I believe to best answer that critical question requires considering several more related questions, and being intentional about the choices we make. The process will be both divination and consideration of our role in the family medicine ecosystem. Finally, I will ask us to consider what our legacy will be.
Elizabeth Garrett, MD, MSPH, is professor of clinical family medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She is director of the family medicine clerkship and the required ambulatory clinical experience for firstand second-year medical students.
She spent a year as an emergency room physician followed by 3 years practice and teaching in rural New Hampshire as a clinical faculty member in the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. As a result of that experience and a desire to have a full-time career in academic medicine, Betsy returned to Columbia, where she completed a Robert Wood Johnson Fellowship, earning an MSPH in 1988.
A Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) member since 1983, she is a past president of STFM and served on the STFM Board as member-at-large and as representative to the AAMC Council of Academic Societies. She serves as a board member of the American Board of Family Medicine and as president elect of the Missouri Academy of Family Physicians. She has also been a long-time member of the Board of Curators of the Center for the History of Family Medicine. She has been active in STFM projects, including the working committee to develop curricular guidelines for a thirdyear family medicine clerkship, the project committees for STFM’s Preceptor Education Project, and the Predoctoral Resource Network committee. She has been on the faculty of the AAFP Chief Resident Leadership Development Program since its inception in 1996. In 1993, she was a Public Health Service Primary Care Policy Fellow.
Saturday, January 27
8:15-9:15 am
"Back to the Future of Family Medicine "
Thomas Schwenk, MD, University of Michigan
The New Model of Family Medicine describes new technologies and innovative approaches to delivering family medical care—technologies and approaches that are designed to improve the quality of patient care delivered and the satisfaction of both the physician delivering the care and the patient receiving it. The implication is that the New Model is radically different in its fundamental principles and values from older models that defined family medicine in its earlier days. This presentation will describe the similarities between the New Model and these older models, and highlight a more fundamental value of the New Model, a renewed emphasis on patient-centered care. The superficial features of medical care delivery change as science and technology, social organization, and health care economics evolve, but the fundamental features of patient-centered care do not change, nor do the implications of this fundamental value for the work and life of family physicians. This defining feature of the New Model has significant implications for how medical student teaching is done, and how predoctoral educational experiences are designed.
Thomas Schwenk, MD, is chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan. His teaching and research address psychiatric and psychosocial issues in primary care practice, with an emphasis on depression. He is the associate director of the Comprehensive Depression Center at the University of Michigan. Associated translation and dissemination work includes serving as team leader for the University of Michigan Clinical Practice Guideline on Depression, and as team leader for a sophisticated computer-based learning module on depression used by the ABFM for its Maintenance of Certification program.
Dr Schwenk is the coauthor of a set of monographs on teaching skills for physicians, which have been distributed to over 70,000 physicians in the past 20 years. He is board certified in sports medicine and has clinical interests in nutritional supplements, ergogenic aids in sports, and mental illness and burnout in athletes.
He has served as one of the founding members of the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Faculty Scholar Program, was a member of the ABFM Board of Directors (Vice President 2004-2005), has been an associate editor for Journal Watch since 1993, and was elected as a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2002.
Sunday, January 28
10:00-11:30 am
"What an Incredible Time to be in Family Medicine"
Laurence Bauer, MSW, MEd, Family Medicine Education Consortium, Dayton, Ohio
Those of us fortunate enough to be steeped in a family medicine philosophy of care have a dynamic vision of what can be and a set of tools with which to build. Even more, there is a cadre of talented and mature family medicine leaders eager to collaborate on changing the system. The nation is waiting for a vision for the future that serves our peoples and our communities. Now is the time to dream big and to build with boldness and determination.
Family medicine has gone through a number of stages of development; from the big bang of the founding that spawned a cycle of growth that began with a handful of departments and residency programs that grew quickly to many hundreds. A group of community-based practitioners, familiar only with their office practices and local hospitals, took on the traditions of the academic medical centers. They were bold and determined. There was no alphabet soup when they began; no AAFP, STFM, NAPCRG, AFMO, AFMRD, and on and on. There were no academically trained family physicians.
Then we matured and many grew up in a stable world full of family medicine faculty members and a stable (but small) funding base. Life became predictable. We planned our schedules around our favorite family medicine meetings and the HRSA grant deadlines. We invested our creative energies in proposals designed to win an award from one office in one federal agency. This went on for more than a generation. This is the known world for a large percent of our current faculty.
In this presentation, the mindset behind the current academic family medicine status quo will be challenged. The core skills needed to dream big and to fund the vision will be addressed. Participants can expect to come away energized by the possibilities with the specific skills they can use to thrive in the brave new world.
Laurence Bauer, MSW, MEd is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Wright State University. He also serves as director of network development for the Center for Innovation in Family and Community Health located in Dayton, Ohio. He served as the director of faculty development in the Departments of Family Medicine at Wright State University and Pennsylvania State University from 1978 to 1999.
Mr Bauer is founding chief executive officer of the Family Medicine Education Consortium (FMEC). The FMEC manages the STFM NE Region meeting along with a number of collaborative projects. He has served as chair of the Planning Committee for the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine NorthEast Region since 1990. Throughout these years he’s been blessed with the opportunity to learn from and work with colleagues who care passionately about the people we serve. These formative experiences prepared him to serve as the course director for an Academic Fundraising training program, co-sponsored by the STFM New Partners Initiative that offers leadership training to family physicians across the country.