I'm going to try to blog live, macworld style.
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9:37am Oregon Health and Science University is presenting their Baby Beeper program. It sounds pretty cool. Basically, first and second year students get an opportunity to see prenatal and maternity care through the lens of family medicine. Students go to at least one pre-natal visit to meet the mother, and family medicine residents call/beep students when the mother goes into labor. Residents also try to schedule post-natal visits with the students. Needs: a dedicated student coordinator, must establish buy-in from residents and L&D nurses.
9:43am Clarification, beepers are out of style and could be more impersonal. Residents and students exchanged cell phone numbers. Another program OHSU started this year was the "No One Dies Alone" program: students sit with terminally ill patients in the hospital to be there for them.
9:45am Pennsylvania State University won the Program of Excellence Award in Exposure to Family Medicine & Family Physicians. They organized a series of residency dinners wherein FM residents from different programs in the area treated students to dinner in the city to discuss any one of a list of topics that students were interested in.
9:48am Residents in Hershey PA willingly treated students for this dinner series... do you think the Boston residents are up for that?
9:52am University of Nebraska is describing highlights from their procedure night workshops. 3-4 FM residents teach 30-40 students how to do a particular procedure: casting, suturing, lumbar puncture, airways and intubation, ABG's and IV's, elbow injections and lung sounds. Sounds very similar to BUSM FMIG's sports medicine workshop series. Donna Kurowski (MS2) is heading that up this year, so keep an eye out for her emails.
9:56am Sebastian is introducing BUSM FMIG! Marcel and Jen are up...
9:58am We tackled the challenge of making primary care sexy by strengthening the FM community and by highlighting the diversity of family medicine practice. The latter was especially emphasized during last year's National Primary Care Week. I hope we can have another active NPCW this year, want to help plan events?10:00am NPCW is a great event to co-sponsor with many potential partners on campus. Working together also brings in many students including students who may not necessarily be interested in FM.
10:01am I see Sebastian taking photos from the front, so you'll see pictures here soon.
10:02am New things for our FMIG last year: newsletter "All in the Family", blog, social events. Marcel just gave me a shoutout in the back as one of the contributing bloggers. Little does he know that I am live blogging their talk.10:03am Ok never mind, he does know. Nice, there's a wordle of blog posts up on the powerpoint. 60 blog posts! 800+ visitors to the blog!
10:07am Meharry Medical College won the Program of Excellence Award in Community Service, Special Consideration Award for First-time Applicant. Some improvements that they implemented this year: paid dues for members to encourage commitment, really cool FMIG shirts ($5 each! Must get on that), text reminders about meetings and events.
10:10am Meharry's Project R.E.C.E.S.S. was featured in the Tennessee Academy of Family Physician's Journal (didn't catch the acronym). The project focused on smoking prevention at a local elementary school because the Tar Wars program couldn't get started in time. The featured booths: Gasping for Air activity, Jar of Tar illustration, Hazards & Effects of Smoking which was a black lung model and display board. The prizes were all active toys, such as kites, promoting active lifestyles-- what a great idea!
10:16am Who's up for starting a Tar Wars program in Boston?
10:18am And it's all over. Onto the Exposition Hall!
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