2015 February

April

8th - 1-4pm

April 9 & 10 - All Day

April 11 - 8am - 5pm

Atlantic Oceanside Hotel & Conference Center, Bar Harbor, Maine

23rd Annual MAFP Family Medicine Update - April 8-11

Join your Family Medicine colleagues from around Maine and beyond at MAFP's flagship CME Conference - there's a variety of CME topics, opportunity to catch up with your colleagues & network, and enjoy beautiful Bar Harbor Maine!

INFORMATION

UPCOMING EVENTS - Focus on Advocacy:

Maine Physicians Day at the Legislature

March 12, 2015

Hall of Flags - 8am-4pm

Every other year, Physicians, Medical students, and Legislators come together at the Maine State Capitol to engage in discussions on important health policy issues including access to affordable, quality healthcare for all Mainers. Whether you've attended Physician's' Day at the Legislature several times or never before, it is important for physicians to visit with legislative members to represent your profession and your patients outside of the clinical setting.

Governor LePage is scheduled to address the group at 11am

We hope you will join your colleagues on Thursday, March 12, 2015 from 8-4 p.m.

More Information & Schedule of the Day - HERE

Contact your Legislator - let them know you'll be at the State House on March 12th

The MAFP has drafted a sample form letter for the use of our members to contact their legislators and set up a meeting during the upcoming Physicians Day at the Legislature.

Simply insert your specific details,

copy and paste into an email.

You can find the email & mailing address of your State Senator & Representative on the AAFP's Speak Out website.

It's a SNAP with these resources:

Sample Letter - HERE

Find & Email your Legislators - HERE

Resources to help your patients HERE
Survey: Most Americans Plan to Change Nutrition, Fitness Habits Feb. 12, 2015 - Results from a recent fitness and nutrition survey by Family Medicine for America's Health found that more than 80 percent of Americans plan to change their diet or exercise regimen this year.	FP Essentials Call for Authors The American Academy of Family Physicians is seeking authors for four upcoming issues of FP Essentials. The four topics are: Nephrology Update, Eye Conditions in Older Adults, Heart Failure Update, and Care of Patients with HIV. FP Essentials is a continuing medical education publication for practicing primary care physicians with a paid circulation of more than 4,000. Each monthly monograph reviews a clinical topic, with the	monographs following a 3-part, 9-year curriculum cycle corresponding to the examination cycle for the American Board of Family Medicine recertification examination. Due dates for these manuscripts will vary. In general, authors or author groups are given 6-8 weeks to prepare a polished draft manuscript that is suitable to submit for peer review. Authors receive a $4,000 honorarium for preparing a manuscript and seeing it through to publication. More information on the topics and proposal process is available at HERE Deadline for receipt of proposals is March 15, 2015.

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