The DFCM News Digest
June 23, 2011
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News
Includes listserv messages sent, news posted at our website and more. Waiting to hear about something in particular? Check the website daily.
Recognition
Awards and Honours
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Dr. Joshua Tepper, Vice-President of Education, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; Merit for Outstanding Leadership in Advancing Interprofessional Education from the Centre for Interprofessional Education, University of Toronto.
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Dr. Bart J. Harvey has received The American Medical Writers Association's Eric Martin Award in the Professional Audience Article category for his article called Hypothesis Testing, Study Power, and Sample Size in Chest, September 2010.
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Dr. Marla Shapiro has been appointed to the board of the North American Menopause Board of Trustees.
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Dr. Robert Henderson has received the Larkin Health Professional Education Award from the Rural Ontario Medical Program
Upcoming Events
Meetings, conferences, rounds, celebrations, workshops from DFCM and others ...
May-August, 2011:
Dalla Lana 2011 Summer Workshop Series
June 24-25, 2011:
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Physicians: Increasing Personal Resilience and Introduction to Clinical Applications, 8:30-5:00
June 28, 2011:
Palliative Care in Long Term Care Homes, a videoconference or in person at the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care, 10:00-11:30 a.m.
August 26, 2011: Purchase deadline for Innovations in Medical Education (IME) Exhibits Booth for the 2011 Association of American Medical Colleges Annual Meeting from November 4-9 in Denver, Colorado. Submission details. Visit the AAMC website.
August 27-31, 2011: The International Association for Medical Education Annual Conference in Vienna, Austria. Learn more about the AMEE conference.
September 8-11, 2011: WONCA Europe in Warsaw, Poland. Visit the 2011 WONCA Europe website.
September 14-17, 2011: The American Academy of Family Physicians’ Scientific Assembly. Orlando, Florida. Visit the 2011 AAFP SA website.
October 2-7, 2011: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Training for Healthcare Professionals: Preventing Depressive Relapse, a clinical training workshop and meditation retreat in Orillia.
November 3-5, 2011: The 2011 Family Medicine Forum (FMF) in Montreal, Quebec. Visit the FMF 2011 website.
November 4-9, 2011: The 2011 Association of American Medical Colleges Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado. Visit the AAMC website.
November 12-16, 2011: 2011 North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) Annual Meeting in Banff, Alberta. Visit the NAPCRG website.
November 24-26, 2011: The Ontario College of Family Physician’s (OCFP) Annual Scientific Assembly (ASA), Toronto. Visit the 2011 OCFP ASA website.
Deadlines
DFCM and conference abstract submission deadlines that fall within the next few months.
August 11, 2011: OCFP ASA
exhibit description form due .
August 15, 2011: (midnight)
Student/Resident/Fellow Works-In-Progress Call-For-Papers. You are invited to submit a poster at the 2011 NAPCRG Annual Meeting, which will be held November 12-16 in Banff, Alberta, Canada. Proposals on any topic relating to primary care research are welcome from researchers throughout North America and the world.
Media
Department of Family and Community Medicine faculty mentions in the media. We don't promise to find all of them, so please share yours!
Dr. Louise Nasmith, the former DFCM Chair, in the Globe and Mail article called
Patients with chronic conditions get one-stop care
Dr. Robert Stephens is recognized in the article
Trent Hills physician recognized for training rural doctors about receiving the Larkin Health Professional Education Award from the Rural Ontario Medical Program.
Dr. Scott Kapoor, Markham Stouffville Hospital, had a
clinical case selected to be re-enacted (by him) in the American television show, Untold Stories of the ER. The episode was called "Ice Cold Mom" and aired on TLC - The Learning Channel on May 8 .
Share your news, event, recongition or media coverage with your colleagues.
Email Danielle Simpson at danielle.simpson@utoronto.ca.
