EducationCommitteeMeeting– March 4,2012at 9:00am

Committee Members present are highlighted: Ephraim Back, Gene Bailey, Seth Camhi, Kristina Connor, Jun David, Monty Douglas, John Eipling, Henry Francis, Kelly Madden, Tochi Iroku-Malize, Clement Landanno, Jason Lieu, JasonMatuszak, Denise Octaviani,Inna Ryvkin, Elizabeth Terragnoli

Meeting Items include:

  1. Meeting minutes were approved.
  1. Action Items from January 12:

-The committee would like to expand theNYSAFP medicalstudent database toinclude pre-med students. Once the database is enhanced and promoted, NYSAFP members can present at local schools.

-Dr. Back recommended that addedfunctionality to the database is needed; a field for pre-med or medical student and ability to search by type of student. There must be a greater promotion of the database. An email will be sent to the membership to get word out to survey who wants to become a mentor and what type of mentor.There should be a clarification between a mentor for a pre-med student mentor and a mentor for a medical student. Dr. Back highlighted, Tim Hoff’s book “Practice Under Pressure” who describes family medicine as a lifestyle type of career and that there is a generational divide between students and younger physicians and attendings.

-Clem suggested the best way to know family medicine is to live with a doctor for a week. He will ask his wife if the Landanno’s can sponsor a student for a week. The student sponsorship rotation could be done as a 2-week elective or as part of the FM rotation.

-Dr. Back sent an email to the commission about AHEC (Area Health Education Center). AHEC is partially funded by NYS and federal government and has similar goals for recruiting students; Tom Rosenthiel is the Medical Director. They are interested in working with us.

Action Item - Kelly will schedule a meeting with Lottie Jameson,Mary J. Sienkiewicz, Vito and Ephraim.
Action Item – Jun will see if he can obtain data on lifestyle choices for family physicians.

  1. Dr. Back discussed that many medical students are going to the Caribbean for school and are having a difficult time getting into a US residency.There is a significant pool of very good medical students is the Caribbean. If we want to get medical students more involved we need to get these schools to have FMIG and show them the opportunity of FM.
    Action Item–Dr. Back would like to get them more involved in Academy activities and will look further into.
  1. Developing a working collaboration amongst FM Educators and Advocates in downstate NY. There was a meeting with the sub-committee who came up with 3 actions (to give incentives to FP that have students in their office, to create a teaching health center grant program, and to have an advisory committee to report to the DOH) to propose to the commissioner. The sub-committee is waiting to hear from the Commissioner for a meeting date.
  1. Monty distributed a draft letterto Department Chairs and Program Directorsregarding Doctors across NY (DANY). The letter includes a link to the application to apply for either $100K over 2 years to help establish practices in underserved areas, or up to $150K in loan forgiveness to physicians in exchange for a 5-year service commitment in underserved regions. The deadline is March 30.
    Action Item – Kelly will email to Department chairs and program directors and will add online.
  1. Jun discussed the importance of having a family medicine rotation in all medical schools. If you want to be licensed in CA or TX, you have to have a family medicine rotation.
    Action Item - Are there any other states besides CA and TX? Federation of State Medical Boards.
    Action Item–NYSAFP supports the State Education Department requiring a core requirement for family medicine content in schools as part of license for doctor. Jun will draft the resolution and send to committee for approval.

Action Itemfor Board- Advocate a department at each of the 4 orphan schools in NYC. The Academy should have, once a year, an advocacy to each of these 4 schools. Who on the board should reach out?

  1. There will be a planning meeting with program directors on the Friday before COD, June 22; the board approved $2500 for directors to attend the meeting.
    Action Item - Bobbi will send an invitation email to the chairs and Jim Mumford and Monty will work on an agenda. Agenda items include: reasons for meeting, mentors and psychosocialsupport, faculty development issues, and cross-collaboration. A facilitator needs to be assigned.

8. Conference Review - profit and loss, the breakdown of students/residents/attendings. There should be a letter of agreement between NYSAFP and local county chapters.

Conference / Conference Date / Total Guests / P & L
Winter Weekend - 2012 / 1/26/12 / 191
R – 17; S- 46 / $41,512
Albany RFMC - 2011 / 10/15/11 / 82
R – 14; S-0 / -$1,750
Rochester RFMC – 2011 / 10/1/11 / 83
R – 6; S - 5 / - $4,500
ALSO IC - 2011 / 5/1/11 / 40 / $2,600
Downstate RFMC - 2011 / 4/1/11 / 69
R – 4; S-27 / -$3,500
Winter Weekend - 2011 / 1/20/11 / 161
R – 19; S-29 / $35,900

ALSO Courses:
Action Item – Kelly look into the Provider Course in Oregon.

Provider Courses - Dr. Back suggested that we can entice some of the Upstate providers to teach providers courses in the NYC area. Dr. Back suggested that we ask the board for support to get more staff for Provider courses in the downstate area. We need to get a commitment from each downstate program.

Instructor Courses – the Education commission feels that if the ALSO IC course on the road would be a good thing to promote NYS. Need to start doing at least one instructor course a year in the downstate area.

Action Item - Send questionnaire to downstate program directors in their interest in participating.

Winter Weekend: send letter to all residency programs asking them to display in exhibit hall

Action Item – recruit medical books and publishers

Year / 2008 / 2009 / 2010 / 2011 / 2012
Total Guests / 351 / 384 / 339 / 425 / 191
  1. Other

Co-sponsoring Occupational Medicine in fall 2012; NYSAFP will provide CME and will receive acknowledgment in the program.

  1. Annual Report

Monty will create a draft and send it to the committee. The deadline is April 16.

Next meeting – June 12 via conference call at 7

  1. Contract between local county chapters and NYSAFP for conferences.