Meeting:Education Commission agenda
Date:August 6, 2016, Inn at Canandaigua
Members Present:(those present are highlighted) Jun David (advisor), Bob Morrow (chair), Sam Sandowski (vice chair), Barbara Keber, KrisEmily McCrory, Denise Octavianni, Robert Anderson, Ephraim Back, Cindy Elkins, Mark Mirabelli, Danielle Simpson (student), Laura Bellard (resident)
Agenda Item / Discussion / Action(assigned to)
1 / Old business: / Action Items:
- Approve meeting minutes - meeting minutes were approved.
- AMIA Informatics course –The commission approved collaborating with AMIA for one additional year and to offer the course Jan. 2017 – June 2017. NYSAFP receives $2500, this money will be earmarked for future use. This is a foundation for those providers thatwish to obtain a 2-year fellowship. The commission requested that a survey be sent to past participants.
- Downstate Regional Family Medicine Conference – The EC supportscollaborating with Hofstra’s academic day on October 22. Currently scheduled is a skills-workshop, SAM module, and faculty development. The commission would like to charge attendings a nominal fee and students and residents for free.
- The following resolution was referred to Education by the executive committee: Resolution 15 - SUBJECT:Increase Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Education in Family Medicine
The commission would like to ask its author, Dr. Linda Prine, to write a letter to
Informational:
- Award recipients - The EC members elected the recipients for the following awards:
(1) AAFP/NYSAFP student externships:
Larissa Raymond
(2) High School Scholarships
- Grace Ayo - Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education Program at CUNY
- Mira Patel - Yale University
(3) Family Educator of the Year
Dr. Katherine Holmes
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- National Conference Family Medicine Residents & Medical Student 12 programs participated in the NY-block at the AAFP National Conference on July 28 – 30. Kelly attended the conference as staff and as a member if the COE. She also presented a round-table discussion on how to get involved with state chapters.
- National Conference EOC summary: National Conference planning (overall theme is Advocacy, previous themes include: FP as the Foundation and Future of Health Care, Social Justice, Public Health, The Broad Scope and Whole Person Aspect of FM)
How to measure quality of resolutions, participation and engagement, (unique authors, diversity of resolutions) & increase number of resolutions submitted by students and residents.
Poster presentations (clinical inquiry, community project, educational program & research)
Match summary – continue to see growth , 7th straight year increase – but need more
SRSI – need resources at medical school student and resident level for burnout (Canadian document); strengthen students understanding in role of PA and NP
Global medicine – refugee health, sent letter to Wonca Europe, making connections that affect other FP across the world.
- Winter Weekend – we have receive over 50 submissions for speaking proposals, a schedule will be out by the end of September. There will be a poster presentation. A save the date card will be mailed this month.
The commission approved returning to Lake Placid in 2018, and continuing in LP every other year. - ALSO update - the commission supports hosting an ALSO Instructor course this spring in NY (or northeast).
- Downstate Consortium – program directors met at the RPD meeting in April. There was consensus that they are not interested in another state wide meeting/consortium.
Dr. Linda Prine will draft a letter.
Kelly will draft a commission review schedule for all awards – due Fall cluster
New Business:
2 / IMG member-ship status / There is a significant number of IMG students that have graduated and have not yet matched. These former students want to be active in state activities, yet are not members. The commission would like to refer this to the board with a suggestion that it should go to NCCL, with a possible resolution. / AI board - IMG membership status issue go to NCCL
3 / Sub-committees / Committee member assignments to subcommittee groups – UME (undergraduate medical education), GME, (graduate medical education) & CME (continuing medical education)
UME members – Barbara, Cindy
GME members – Ephraim, Sam, Mark, KrisEmily
CME members (practice transformation)–KrisEmily, Rob
Dr. Morrow would like the subcommittees to address value-added payment, what will help small practices survive.
4 / UME update & goals /
- Pipeline – whynot family medicine, no money, no respect, what is it? Who are we addressing – students, medical schools, and possibly the state for loan foregiveness and education of public and rural recruitment.
- FMIG – engage students, residents and faculty and engage residents to return to their schools.
- IMG – a regional FMIG for IMG, and how to set up, how to do it, duration, what type of events and where
- How to engage DO schools?
5 / GME update & goals / GME Action item ideas
1. Increase of FM residency slots
-Support an expansion of teaching health centers
2. IMG
-Current IM students
-fighting the ”second-class” students
-Will ultimately become leadership
(let’s not ignore how many have matched in FM)
-Reach out to Caribbean schools (UG) FMIG efforts/ways to recruit students to attend
3. Support Program Directors communication$$
Sponsor PD lunch (FMEC/PDW)
-Sponsor PD/Chair listserve
4. Fellowship education needs
-Helping medical students/residents aware of fellowship opportunities
-GME includes Fellows.
5. Supporting innovations in training/practice for residents specifically
-POC ultrasound
-Procedures (education geared at residents)
-ALSO
6. AOA merge with ACGME
-Work to encourage AOA programs to work with NYSAFP (Membership)
7. esident pipeline
-Encouraging residents to stay in NY to practice (Advocacy)
6 / CME update & goals /
- navigating changing landscape re abfm
- transformational issues
- opioid training--?grant-MSSNY
- VBP, including various types of practices and data needs
- developing networks
Next meeting – November 12, 1 pm, The Century House, Latham, NY