From FMF
Nov 4th, 2011 by Martin Dawes
Ian Scott given Ian McWhinney Award
Last night at the Section of Teachers dinner, attendees from British Columbia were delighted seeing Ian Scott being given the Ian McWhinney Family Medicine Education Award. This award is given to a teacher of family medicine deemed by his peers to have made a unique and innovative contribution which has had a significant national impact on the development of family medicine education in Canada. In front of family and colleagues Ian was presented with the award and made a wonderful acceptance speech acknowledging all the help he had received, but the tribute is really to Ian’s own hard work and academic success. 
Congratulations.
From the UBC resident leadership award to all the posters and presentations and our booth recruiting even more residents, UBC has been very visible at FMF. I have seen many faculty, from all across the province, at the meeting and it was good to catch up with so many of you.
Project Managers for the Expansion Proposal for the Postgraduate Program, Family Practice.
The Family Medicine Postgraduate Program has been expanding their number of sites since 2006 and has fourteen sites at present. Under the Expansion and Distribution Proposal currently funded by the Federal Government there is an expectation to increase the numbers of IMG’s in the Family Medicine Postgraduate Program by 40 (Health Care Contribution Program 2011- 2016). In addition, with the creation of the Interior Medical Program at UBC there will be a requirement for 16 or more new residency positions for Canadian graduates. Faced with this expansion the department needs to look at options for how to move forward and meet the increasing demands placed on the Postgraduate program.
John Morse and Jean Jamieson take on the the 6 month job to examine the impact of this expansion on current Family Medicine Residency Program sites, the Undergraduate Programs of all campuses of the UBC Undergraduate Medical Program and the distributed Royal College Residency Programs. Their aim is to provide a report within 6 months that will outline strategic options for ensuring a smooth expansion and to describe the management structures needed for the expanded program itself. This report will address the distributed nature of the program and provide examples of administrative approaches that could meet the pedagogical requirements and CFPC accreditation standards.
We welcome John and Jean, whose combined wealth of experience includes faculty and family practice postgraduate programs, rural practice, and Faculties of Medicine.
I am delighted to have them on our team and wish them success in the undertaking of this important task for the Department.
Professor Saras Vedam chairs historic Home Birth Consensus Summit in the US
On October 20-22, 2011, a group of sixty-eight national and international experts were brought together in Warrenton, Virginia to participate in a historic Home Birth Consensus Summit. The result of this three day meeting was the creation of nine statements of common ground regarding home birth and other controversies in maternity care. The full text of each statement, along with recommended action steps can be found at www.homebirthsummit.org. Congratulations to Professor Saras Vedam for chairing this important event and to Laura Schummers for grant facilitation and Angela Moore for project management. We look forward to following the outcome of this important Summit.