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CERA, the CAFM Educational Research Alliance, is now accepting proposals for questions for a survey of family medicine department chairs. The survey, which will be sent to nearly 200 department chairs, will collect demographic information in addition to submitted questions. Priority will be given to proposals that are likely to result in high-quality, peer-reviewed publications. Applications are due April 30, 2024. Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/447bh59w
The Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM) has opened applications for its LEADS Fellowship . Applications are due by June 10, 2024. LEADS (Leadership Education for Academic Development and Success) is designed for those who are interested in learning more about whether senior leadership positions in academic family medicine might be a good career fit and for those who aspire to become a senior leader in academic medicine or an academically affiliated health system. The goal of the fellowship is to train pluripotent leaders to have the skills/understanding of a high-level leadership position like a department chair/service line leader ...
The Annals of Family Medicine sponsors a one-year editorial fellowship in medical editing, peer review, and medical journal production. The Fellowship is designed for an individual with relevant background who wishes to build skills and gain experience through active participation in the Annals of Family Medicine editorial team. The Fellow will participate in manuscript decisions, strategic planning for the journal, editorial team conference calls, and the journal’s annual Editorial Advisory Board meeting. Opportunities may be available to contribute to Annals of Family Medicine features, such as guest editorials or the Annals of Family Medicine ...
Do you have a mentor who inspires you? Do you want to recognize a colleague for outstanding work? Nominations for NAPCRG’s annual awards are due April 15 – get started today! https://www.napcrg.org/awards/napcrg-awards/ Award spotlight: The 2023 Maurice Wood Award for Lifetime Contribution to Primary Care Research was presented to Dr. Lillian Gelberg, MD, MSPH, Professor in the Department of Family Medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She's been a member of NAPCRG for more than 30 years, going back to when she was a research fellow. Throughout her career, Dr. Gelberg says NAPCRG has provided great encouragement to do her ...
We're looking for contributors to lead engaging conference workshops, panel discussions, original research sessions and poster presentations at NAPCRG’s 52nd Annual Meeting , taking place at the Québec City Convention Center, Canada, November 20-24, 2024. Submit an abstract in one of these categories: Pre-Conference Workshops - view preview form here Forums - view preview form here Workshops (inside the regular part of the meeting) - view preview form here Oral Presentations for Completed Research - view preview form here Poster Presentation for Completed Research - view preview form here Poster Presentation ...
Check out this thoughtful letter from members of NAPCRG’s PaCE committee that was published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine in February. PaCE is actively working to emphasize the importance of community clinician engagement in primary care research, bringing physicians and patients together to advance this cause. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-023-08507-7
Our profession, like most other professions, has been trained to take things apart to understand the whole. While this works fine in the mechanical world, it has failed us largely in the living world. Butland B, Jebb S, Kopelman P, McPherson K, Thomas S, Mardell J, et al. Foresight. Tackling obesities: future choices—Project report [1]. (Open Government Licence v3.0)) How much research has been published to “ solve the obesity epidemic ” that has had no appreciable impact? Has this fact altered researchers’ enthusiasm for deeper research into their particular interest part, or has it shifted policy and funding bodies’ support of research towards ...

SPOR COAST 2 COAST

COAST 2 COAST is a monthly blog that highlights the latest news from each of the Primary and Integrated Healthcare Innovation (PIHCI) Networks from across Canada. The BC Primary Health Care Research Network has made available a report by Sabrina Wong and the TRANSFORMATION Team on the first application of a refined patient-experience survey tool to compare primary healthcare performance [ BCPHCRN ] Read the latest issue of the Alberta SPOR PIHCIN ‘Communiqué’ [ Alberta SPOR ] Learn about the priorities of the Saskatchewan PIHCI Network [ Sask PIHCIN ] Carolyn Shimmin has created a useful presentation on patient engagement in health ...

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Recently, I hosted a medical student in my family medicine clinic in downtown Toronto. She had heard me speak about the social determinants of health (SDoH), and wanted to see how I put these ideas into practice. As we reviewed the patients we'd see that day, we talked about how poverty, precarious employment and poor housing conditions "get under our skin" [ http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.publhealth.012809.103538 ] and impact health outcomes. We had a busy afternoon and saw many people dealing with complex social issues that affected their health. This included a man in his mid 20s who is homeless, making it challenging for him to stay ...
There are well-documented deficiencies in healthcare quality in the U.S. Health systems and health plans around the country invest millions of dollars in quality improvement efforts to address these deficiencies. Despite this concerted effort, broad quality improvement initiatives have failed to address persistent racial and ethnic disparities in health care. New paradigms of quality improvement, which emphasize measuring and reducing healthcare disparities are critical in addressing this problem. A large health system recently implemented a new colorectal cancer screening program. Built on a large body of high quality evidence from published literature, ...
"Henry", 48 years old. I met him in January, he was homeless, struggling with alcohol use and serious mental illness. Over the course of 4 months we advocated for Henry and found him housing. Not "shelter", housing. Its now August and Henry is recovering from his alcohol use and on his way to find employment. Henry is happy. This is one example of the narrative our system strives to tell- the story I want to tell. Unfortunately in my experience so far I've learned that Henry is not the norm and this is not the story our system allows. I charged into July ambitious as a first year resident to make an 'impact' working with the homeless in Toronto, Canada's ...