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Residency Programs

Would you like an IAFP leader to visit your residency program?  Email Ginnie Flynn at gflynn@iafp.com with possible dates/time and she'll work on scheduling a visit for you. 

Editor's Note:  Resident e-News is now it's own publication and no longer combined with Student news.  So now your monthly email update is a little shorter and 100 percent relevant!  

Our upcoming Family Medicine Midwest conference, October 4-6 in Milwaukee provides a tremendous and tangible opportunity for Midwestern residency programs and medical schools to collaborate on the shared mission of providing a strong primary care workforce to reduce the shortages currently predicted by many expert groups.  

For Residents and Faculty - Online registration will be available soon, but for now here is a printable registration form.  If your program needs to submit an application to exhibit at the residency fair, you can find that here! Contact Ginnie Flynn at gflynn@iafp.com or 630-427-8004 for help. 

The IAFP i the meeting manager for the Family Medicine Midwest Collaborative which includes:  Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.   

Carson with Sen. Dick Durbin

Tar Wars Illinois winner takes 2^nd in DC

Carson Fisher, soon to be a fifth-grader at Bureau Valley South School in Sheffield, took second place at the National Tar Wars Poster Contest in Washington, D.C.  The National Poster Winner was announced on July 16 at a banquet honoring all the state winners in Washington, DC.  The following morning, all the Tar Wars state winners headed to Capitol Hill to meet with their members of Congress.  Carson, his sister Kinzie and parents Chad and Angie met with U.S. Senator Dick Durbin and legislative staff for Sen. Mark Kirk, followed by a meeting with their representative, Rep. Adam Kinzinger.

Read more on the IAFP blog http://illinoisfamilyphysicians.wordpress.com/

Annual Foundation Sox Game a big hit for family medicine [Photo]

With perfect weather and over 150 baseball fans, IAFP celebrated our seventh annual Family Health Foundation of Illinois White Sox game fundraiser.  Ticket sales, combined with our corporate sponsorship totals over $3,500 for the Foundation.  Unfortunately (for most of the fans) Detroit jumped on the scoreboard early and prevailed 6-2.  Special thanks to our three corporate supporters, Cerner, Health Directions, LLC and ProAssurance for supporting the event and bringing such fun.  ProAssurance continued their tradition of hosting the pre-game social for members who could get to the park a little early!  

AAFP National Conference Poster Presenters from Illinois

Congratulations to the Illinois attendees who are participating in the AAFP National Conference Poster Presentation Competition next weekend.  If you are going to the conference, stop by and see them!

Clinical Inquiry:

Rapidly Progressive Encephalopathy in a 49 Year Old Female: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Ranga Patri, MD

Community Project:

Active K: Filling a Need for Organized Physical Activity Among Kindergarteners

Katie Lowry and Daniel Sadowski

Research:

Investigation of First Year Medical Students' Career Preferences

Kimberly Clinite and Stephanie Kazantsev

AAFP Releases SoMe guide for family physicians

According to the IAFP survey last week, 95 percent of residents use social media.  But more than half said you prefer to use social media for personal communications, but not professional communication (like IAFP). If social media is already part of your communications repertoire, then think about how you can utilize these tools in your future career communications, too.  All three AAFP Congresses (Student, Resident and Active member) passed resolutions asking AAFP to develop a toolkit for members to guide their foray into social media - and they delivered. 

Link to the AAFP toolkit (15 pages)

AAFP Leadership Opportunities

AAFP student and resident leadership position information for 2013 is now on the Getting Involved in Your Academy section of the AAFP web site. A flier is also provided describing the different elected and appointed positions (member log-in required) and includes a leadership grid that outlines information about each position, including length of term and travel requirements. If you are planning to attend the AAFP National Conference Aug 1-3 or have interests in national leadership involvement start thinking about it now.     Some appointed positions require that interested students and residents to complete and return the application materials to the chapter - for Illinois that's Ginnie Flynn at gflynn@iafp.com. 

Career Exploration from your Couch

The AAFP CareerLink Virtual Career Fair will be held August 15 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. CDT. Residents can connect directly with employers looking to hire family physicians from the comfort of their home or office. 

Through this virtual career fair members will: 

-Gain direct access to physician employers looking to hire. 

-Make new connections and broaden their network. 

-Explore career opportunities available to family physicians.

-Registration is required. Although designed for residents, any member may attend. 

AAFP Delivers Answers on Contracts and Collective Bargaining

AAFP's website now has best practices developed for employed physicians on contract negotiations and collective bargaining. Employed physicians are feeling the loss of control over their personal compensation, as well as the terms and conditions of their employment. It is vital for them to know the basics before negotiating an employment agreement.

A dual-resource guide entitled, "Five Key Elements of a Physician Employment Agreement and Collective Bargaining for Employed Physicians," empowers physicians to better navigate employment agreements and contracts. Just a hint: #1 is Salary and #2 is Benefits!

If you have a news item to share, email it to Ginnie Flynn at gflynn@iafp.com.

Congratulations to IAFP Resident Board Member Monica Fudala, MD of NorthShore University FMR who is one of seven Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism and Excellence in Teaching awards recipients from the University of Chicago.  These awards were given out to residents who demonstrated compassion and empathy in caring for patients, but who also served as a role model for students and colleagues, exhibited enthusiasm and skill in professional and personal interactions with students, and welcomed one-on-one mentorship.

Congratulations to IAFP board member Edward A. Blumen, MD of NorthShore University Health Systems for being awarded the first annual 2012-2013 Outstanding Preceptor Award from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced $12 million in Affordable Care Act funding to support primary care residency programs in 32 Teaching Health Centers across the nation.  Funding will help train more than 300 residents during the 2013-2014 academic year, doubling the number of residents trained in the previous academic year.

Administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Payment Program, created by the Affordable Care Act, expands residency training in community-based settings.  Residents will be trained in family and internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, and general and pediatric dentistry. Northwestern University/McGaw Family Medicine Residency Program is the only Illinois THC and was awarded $862,500.  Of the first class to graduate from McGaw in June 2013, seven out of eight are in community-based outpatient settings; with five of them remaining in the Northwestern community and two others in underserved clinics in Chicago.

Past president Ron Johnson, MD was quoted in an article in the July 15 Quincy Herald Whig describing the newly opened Pittsfield Clinic and Pike County Family Practice, which provides consolidated and expanded services.

Amit Garg, MD was featured in the July 12 Ottawa Times for earning his certification from the Department of Transportation for the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners. He's now the only physician in a 45-mile radius certified by NCRME to conduct physical qualification exams for commercial drivers, such as truck and bus drivers.  You can get that same certification Oct 12 in Davenport, IA (See the CME section for details).

Brian S. Rosborough, MD has been named chief medical officer of OSF St. Elizabeth Medical Center, as well as regional director of the OSF Medical Group's I-80 Region, according to the July 12 issue of the Ottawa Times.

Thomas Lee, MD of New Lenox provides insight on the importance and process of the sports physical required for youth sports team participation. The article appeared in the Mokena Patch on July 17.

This week's Crain's Chicago Business examined the track records of Chicago teaching hospitals in producing primary care physicians.  The article includes input from IAFP members Susan Vandenberg-Dent, MD, associate dean at Rush University and Lee Sacks, MD, chief medical officer for Advocate Health Care.