Weekly Recruiting Update

I am still so excited about our 2007 recruiting season! Applications continue to come in. As of yesterday, we have invited 36 applicants to interview and 23 of those have already reserved their interview dates. We anticipate that we will interview approximately 50 - 65 applicants this year, so we are well on our way to filling our calendar. This may be our first year to have to "wait-list" some applicants.

Last week I attended the Texas Medical Association Fall Summit. The TMA Council on Medical Education and the Subcommittee for Academic Physicians both met during the Summit. Workforce and medical education are at the top of the agenda for those groups, as you might expect, but also are becoming more and more of a state-wide (and national) concern. This bodes very well for Family Medicine, and especially Family Medicine residencies in Texas, I believe. There continues to be calls to expand residency training opportunities in Texas. As many of you will already know, Texas medical school seats were increased with this year's entering class. I encourage you to stop by www.coderedtexas.org and look at the reports on workforce and medical education.

The Subcommittee for Academic Physicians (I chair that group) is nearing completion of a Patient Safety Curriculum for medical students, residents and practicing physicians. It will be the first fully on-line, self-contained, free curriculum in Patient Safety. I'm quite proud of this work... we believe it is the first collaboration of all state academic medical centers and the state medical association to produce such a project. The curriculum will be housed on the TMA website. I will post the link when it is published.

Have a great weekend, everyone!