39th STFM Annual Spring Conference

The FMRP was represented by 7 faculty, 1 resident, 1 medical student and 1 residency staff member as presenters at the 39th STFM Annual Spring Conference April 26 - 30 in San Francisco, for 2 breakfast round-table discussions, 1 podium presentation and 3 poster presentations.

Presentation topics included cultural competency, rural training, spirituality and the ACGME Outcomes project. Faculty members also participated in a variety of special groups and topic discussions. Presentation details follow:

Breakfast discussions:
"Low-cost or no-cost standardized patient based activities for residency programs" - Michael Callaway, Lisa Nash, K. Szauter

"Border health education for medical students" - A. Padilla, Cecilia Romero, K. Flores

Posters:
"Family physicians' beliefs, attitudes and practices regarding the integration of patient spirituality into medical care" - Michael Olson, Victor Sierpina, et. al.

"Assessing the ACGME competencies: the reliability of faculty ratings of residents" - Michael Callaway, Lisa Nash, Becky Hamilton.

"Family medicine residents' perceptions of a rural training track experience" - Lisa Nash, Michael Olson, Juanita Caskey.

Podium Presentation:

"Creating & maintaining a Hispanic/Spanish speaking focus team in an FPC" - Cecilia Romero, Susan Berkley, Pompeyo Chavez and Kristen Solana-Walkinshaw.

Dr. Gary Shokar and Robert Bulik were recognized at the conference too, receiving a national award for their work in the web-based training component of the FM clerkship for medical students. They acknowledged Darren Burns for his technical support and expertise too.

Good job and thanks to all who put in so much work to turn out a good showing for our program! See the residency website photo album too!