2014: Year of the Family Physician (Part XXIV)
Emma Lundberg, CAFP Membership Coordinator, was kind enough to invite me to provide an update on #2014YearFP at the Sacramento-El Dorado County Chapter Spring Awards Dinner on June 23. I paraphrased President Woodrow Wilson in stating that #2014YearFP is an idea, an ideal and a vision. It began as an idea to raise the profile of family physicians during the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. It transitioned to an ideal when...
2014: Year of the Family Physician (Part XXIII)
On May 21st, the UC Davis Health System hosted a faculty workshop discussing the role of social media in academic medicine. Dorsey Griffith from public affairs and Vicki Bencken from marketing were kind enough to include me on the panel. Approximately 100 faculty members from nearly all disciplines attended. My panel co-members included a thoracic surgeon, a pathologist, and a urologist. I incorporated a Twitter chat into the workshop...
2014: Year of the Family Physician (Part XXII)
David Tran, Co-Vice Chair of the CAFP Student Council, recently blogged about his cognitive awakening regarding the counter-culture roots of #FMRevolution. He paid homage to Dr. G. Gayle Stevens’ sage insight and guiding vision of family medicine as a movement rather than a discipline. In essence, our culture is counter-culture. That premise requires us to examine prevailing culture. We prioritize what we crave. We gravitate to the...
2014: Year of the Family Physician (Part XXI)
The finale of “How I Met Your Mother” achieved the highest viewing audience in its nine year run. Fans of the television series stormed social media to express their disapproval or sad reluctant acceptance of its ending. #HIMYMFinale was a top trending hashtag immediately after the episode concluded. People had invested nearly a decade of their lives watching a father tell his children how he met their mother. They saw much of...
2014: Year of the Family Physician (Part XX)
WOW! 1,146 US medical school graduates chose family medicine in the 2014 residency match! A total of 3,000 family medicine residency positions were filled. This represents a continuing upward trend in the past five years regarding medical student interest in family medicine. The data are encouraging, but what inspired me was the number of future colleagues who posted pictures of their match notification letter in one hand and their...