Tuesday, September 9, 2014
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AnMed Family Medicine Residency Coordinator Recounts 2014 AAFP National Conference Experience
Shared by: Pam Weldon,
Residency Manager
AnMed Health Family
Medicine Residency Program
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| South Carolina Booth |
The 2014 American Academy of Family Physicians
National Conference in Kansas City took place August 7-9. The conference offers
an assortment of educational sessions and workshops, as well as a personal
introduction to residency programs from across the nation. This was my second visit to the National Conference as
a representative of one of our South Carolina Family Medicine Residency Programs.
Although I’ve been involved in residency recruiting for 14 years, I’ve been in
South Carolina for only four. Here is my perspective of our South Carolina
presence in Kansas City.
First
Impressions
When I strolled
through the exhibit hall prior to its opening, I was convinced that South
Carolina’s booth far surpassed all others. Recruiters and residents from other
programs commented about our exceptional appearance. Over 150 medical students
visited our booth to learn more about our programs.
Sense
of Community
Recruiting is hard
work, but medical students bring an air of
excitement and expectation. Their energy is contagious. The camaraderie we
shared with one another made it impossible to keep from smiling!
Last
Impressions
As a relative newcomer
to South Carolina, I want you to know how unusual we are. We do stand out above
the rest. We unite together to create a stronger presence to medical students. We
recognize the value of each other. That kind of teamwork makes us exceptional!
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| (left to right) AnMed Health Family Medicine Resident Joy Zarandy, D.O.; AnMed Health Family Medicine Residency Program Director Matt Cline, M.D.; AnMed Health Family Medicine Resident Andrea Ray, M.D. |
For more information about South Carolina AHEC’s eight
Family Medicine Residency Programs, visit http://scahec.net/gme/gme.html.
New Rural Rotation for McLeod Family Medicine Residency Program
McLeod’s Family Medicine Residency Program launched a new
required rural residency rotation over the summer. This elective rural rotation
was made a requirement for all second-year medical residents. During the
rotation, the residents spend four weeks working with rural family physicians
in the full scope of their practices. This experience includes office-based
patient care, hospital rounds, nursing home care, and procedure clinics.
The rural rotations provide residents with optimal exposure
to what practicing rural medicine entails. Residents learn how to provide
optimal care in what are typically more resource-strapped environments. Rural
practices also tend to offer more office-based procedures, which translates to
more experience for the residents. Finally, residents learn about cultural
differences, making them better caregivers.
The new rural rotation requirement is in keeping with McLeod
Family Medicine Residency Program’s mission statement, which is “to graduate
competent family physicians who will populate the underserved areas of
primarily rural South Carolina and to provide health care services to the
community and population we serve.” The program graduates residents in family
medicine who go on to practice in a wide range of practices, including:
outpatient, hospitals, nursing homes, hospice, emergency rooms, administration,
academia, and combinations thereof.
McLeod Family Medicine Residency Program continues to seek
more rural preceptors around the state to share their unique practice
experiences and to broaden the scope of rural health education for residents. The
option of additional elective rural rotations is also still available to
residents, with the hope that they will have such a positive experience on the
required rotation that they will elect to pursue another rural opportunity.
To find out more about the rural rotation, McLeod Family
Medicine Residency Program, or to become a rural preceptor with their program,
please contact Dr. John Mattheis at jmattheis@mcleodhealth.org
or 843-777-2808.
25th Annual Rebecca S. Seignious Family Medicine Interest Day
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| A participant practices casting techniques |
The 25th Annual
Rebecca S. Seignious Family Medicine Interest Day was held on August 23 at the
Embassy Suites in Columbia, South Carolina. This event was sponsored by the
Statewide Family Medicine Residency Directors, the South Carolina AHEC and the
South Carolina Academy of Family Physicians.
The purpose of this program is to stimulate interest and enthusiasm in
the field of Family Medicine.
Ninety-five
medical students from 15 medical schools attended the Interest Day. The
students began the day with a luncheon where they enjoyed the opportunity to
network with members of the South Carolina Academy of Family Physicians and
faculty and residents from South Carolina’s Family Medicine Residency Programs.
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| A participant practices joint injections |
After
lunch each student selected four hands-on workshops conducted by South Carolina
AHEC’s Family Medicine Residency Training Programs’ faculty and residents. The hands-on workshops included:
- GYN Procedures (IUD Insertion, Endometrial Biopsy, and Colposcopy) - Anderson
- Joint Injections - Charleston
- Delivery and Infant Care Simulation - Columbia
- Upper Endoscopy and Colonoscopy by the Family Physician and Bedside Ultrasound - Florence
- Basic Suturing Techniques - Greenville
- Casting - Greenwood
- Wilderness Medicine - Seneca
- Vasectomy - Spartanburg
To find out more
about the Rebecca S. Seignious Family Medicine Interest Day, please contact
Kristin Cochran at cochrak@musc.edu.
Twelfth Annual Research Symposium-Collaboration: Research Partnerships
The Twelfth Annual Research Symposium - Collaboration: Research Partnerships will be held on
September 26 in Greenville, SC. Upstate AHEC sponsors the symposium in collaboration
with The Nursing Research Committee of the Greenville Health System, the
Nursing Research Council of AnMed Health, Nursing Division of Greenville
Technical College, and the Gamma Mu Chapter and the Mu Rho Chapter of Sigma
Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. The purpose of the symposium
is to provide participants with ways to integrate interprofessional
collaboration in healthcare research, network with colleagues, and engage in
interprofessional dialogue around basic, clinical, educational and
translational research studies and findings.
The conference will take place in the Auditorium of the
Technical Resource Center (Building 102) on the Barton Campus of Greenville
Technical College, 506 South Pleasantburg Drive, Greenville, SC. Speakers include:
- Windsor Westbrook Sherrill, PhD, MBA, MHA
- Matthew F. Hudson, PhD, MPH
- Susan Bethel, MSN, RN, NE-BC
- Annette Drake, RN, BSN, MSM
- Meenu Jindal, MD
- Sharon Warday, MSN, MJP, RN
- Darlene Amendolair, PhD, RN
- Julia A. Eggert, PhD, GNP-B, AOCN
Additionally, there
will be 18 poster presentations that relate to ways research findings or evidence-based
projects contribute to clinical practice. The full conference brochure is available
at www.upstateahec.org.
If you would like more information about the conference or
have questions, please contact Bennie Pettit at bpettit@upstateahec.org or 864-349-1162.
The Mental Health of Children, Adolescents and Their Families
Mid-Carolina AHEC is partnering once again with the Upper
Midlands Rural Health Network to host the school nurse workshop. The program will take place on October 13 at
the Gateway Conference Center in Richburg, SC.
The program is held annually in Chester or Fairfield County
and school nurses from across the state attend.
This year the program will also be available to social workers. This year’s program will provide 6.5 hours of
nursing credit, 2.0 hours of social work credit, and 4.5 hours of non-social
work credit.
The topic of the program is “Mental Health of Children,
Adolescents, and Their Families.” Speakers for the program represent NAMI (National
Alliance on Mental Illness) South Carolina and Catawba County Mental Health.
There will also be two speakers who will share their personal journey of living
with mental illness with an onset during school years.
To find out more information about this program, please contact Karen Nichols by phone at
(803) 377-8026 or email at knichols@umrhn.org.
World Diabetes Day Conference 2014
On November 14, Upstate AHEC, in collaboration with The
Greenville Health System Diabetes Education Department, will sponsor the 2014
World Diabetes Day Conference. The
conference addresses real-life emotional aspects of diabetes and will assist
participants with developing the skills to help people with diabetes overcome
the emotional and behavioral obstacles to living well with the disease. The
conference will be held in the Robert Coleman Medical Staff Auditorium at Greenville
Memorial Hospital, 701 Grove Road, Greenville, South Carolina from 8:30 AM
until 4:00 PM. The target audience includes
physicians, registered nurses, dietitians, diabetes educators, certified health
education specialists, health educators, mental health professionals, social
workers, licensed professional counselors and therapists, and interested
others.
Topics presented at the conference will include bedside
teaching and motivation, case management/care coordination and successful
patient discharge, barriers to diabetes
control and diabetes self-management, and decreasing readmission using
telehealth and the bionic pancreas.
Faculty include:
- Bobbie Rhodes, RN, MS, an Organization Development Consultant with the Greenville Health System
- Tracey Weaver, BSN, MBA, the Manager of Ambulatory Care Management with the Greenville Health System
- Bruce Latham, MD, an endocrinology specialist with the Greenville Health System
- Maggie Bobo, MS, the Director of Telemedicine at the Greenville Health System
- Manasi Sinha, MD, MPH, Pediatric Endocrinology Clinical Fellow at Mass General Hospital for Children and a Research Fellow in the Diabetes Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital
World Diabetes Day (WDD) is celebrated every year on
November 14 and engages millions of people worldwide in diabetes advocacy and
awareness. The World Diabetes Day campaign is led by the International Diabetes
Federation (IDF) and its member associations. The campaign draws attention to
issues of paramount importance and keeps diabetes firmly in the public
spotlight. The World Diabetes Day theme
for 2014-2016 is Healthy Living and
Diabetes.
If you would like more information about the conference or
have questions, please contact Bennie Pettit at bpettit@upstateahec.org or
864-349-1162.
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To view a program, visit ahecu.org.
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