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Idaho Academy of Family Physicians 57th Annual Meeting
The Idaho Academy of Family Physicians will convene its annual conference May 13 & 14, 2005 at the DoubleTree Riverside Hotel. The scientific agenda offers 14 hours of current family medicine topics. To view the agenda and other registration information you can access it through www.idahofamilyphysicians.org or call 323-1156.
Family Medicine Residency of Idaho Reunion
The Family Medicine Residency of Idaho (FMRI) is holding its 30th reunion in conjunction with the Idaho Academy of Family Physicians (IAFP) 57th Annual Meeting.The weekend long celebration, May 13-15, 2005, includes a "family" reunion on Friday evening at the residency, a banquet on Saturday evening at the DoubleTree Riverside, and a golf scramble on Sunday morning at Eagle Hills Golf Course. The banquet and the golf scramble are open to the public.
The IAFP conference will include 12 CME credits on a mixture of clinical topics and breakout sessions on "Teaching Residents and Students". For more information, contact Neva Santos, IAFP, 323-1156 or Mary McColl, FMRI, 367-6697. On-line registration and the full conference agenda are available on the IAFP website at www.idahofamilyphysicians.org.
Reminder: State Board CME Requirements
Beginning with the 2005 renewal cycle, physicians will be asked to sign a statement affirming that they have obtained 20 Category I hours of continuing medical education per year (forty hours for a two year renewal). All education offered by institutions or organizations accredited by the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and reciprocating organizations or the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) are considered approved. These agencies include the American Medical Association and state medical associations, the American Board of Medical Specialties and their associated specialty boards, the Federation of State Medical Boards and the American Hospital Association to name a few.
Anderson Center - Wednesday, 8:00 a.m.
11 Bassem El-Masri, MD, Director, Cardiac Prevention and Intervention Center, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine and Cardiology; Weill Medical College of Cornell University and New York Presbyterian Hospital.
18 Michael McClung, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Oregon Health Sciences University.
Mercy Medical Center - Wednesday, 12:30 p.m. - Winter Room
11 Bassem El-Masri, MD, Director, Cardiac Prevention and Intervention Center, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine and Cardiology; Weill Medical College of Cornell University and New York Presbyterian Hospital.
18 Michael McClung, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Oregon Health Sciences University.
Centennial Room - Friday, 8:00 a.m.
13 David Vossler, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine.
Tumor Boards
Mercy Medical Center - Tuesday, 12:00 noon
Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center - Thursday, 12:00 noon
Breast Care Panel-Saint Alphonsus RMC - Tuesday, 7:00 a.m.
St. Luke�s Regional Medical Center - Tuesday, 12:00 noon
Breast Tumor Board-St. Luke�s RMC - Thursday, 7:00 a.m.
MSTI Pediatric Tumor Board - 2nd & 4th Wednesday, 12:00 noon
Meridian Tumor Board - 1st & 3rd Thursday, 12:00 noon
CHEERS (Children's Hospital Education Enrichment Review)
1st, 2nd, 4th, Thursday, 8 a.m., Anderson Center - Ada -2
MEMBERSHIP: The following members were approved:
Provisional Membership: Sean Carr, M.D.; Cherish Visgar, M.D.; Delan O'Riodan, M.D.
Upcoming Events:
June 8 High School Athletic Physicals, BSU Taco Bell Arena. Volunteers are still needed. If you want to help call the ACMS office at 336-2930.
June 17 The ACMS 4th Annual Judy Barningham Memorial Golf Tournament will be held at SpurWing Country Club. The four person scramble starts at 1:00 p.m. Entry fee is $100/golfer which includes golf & cart, box lunch, tee prizes, awards dinner and raffle prizes. Proceeds from the tournament will benefit the Idaho Community Foundation.
News:
The Department of Health & Welfare's Medical Care Advisory Committee (MCAC)needs a physician representative.MCAC advises the director on policy and services affecting the Medicaid program. The physician advisor is one of about 15 members and, along with the IMA advisor, represents the state's physicians.
MCAC meets quarterly, in Boise in the afternoon. If you have questions and/or would like to submit your name, please call Susan Belzer, Judy Bailey or Bob Seehusen at the IMA 344-7888.
"Dogs do not change light bulbs. People change light bulbs. So, the real question is: How long will it be before I can expect some light, some dinner, and a massage?"
June 2005
July 2005
Any day now I expect to see Boise's first advertisement for boutique medicine also known as "concierge doc's". These physicians contract with patients for a fee ranging from $5-25 thousand per year. This retainer buys affluent patient same day appointments, longer exam times, yearly three hour physical exams, off duty access to their physicians via pager or cell phones and coordination of care with other specialists. The patient is still responsible for usual fees and deductibles. CMS (formerly HCFA) is monitoring several of these practices to see if any Medicare rules are being violated. With such an arrangement a primary care physician can limit their practice to approximately 600 patients versus about 3000 patients in the usual practice.
Some have called this practice "wealth care" rather than health care. Those of us in primary care have always believed that it's important for physicians to know their patients and provide continuity of care. If you do enough tests on patients some results will be abnormal leading to further confirmatory tests which may be associated with morbidity. What are needed are studies showing better outcomes with such arrangements.
It's difficult for me to believe that greed isn't the primary motivator for these arrangements. Our country has over 45 million uninsured citizens. There have always been disparities in our health care system� that's why Karl Watts started his clinic in Garden City. This trend which may be good medicine for a few leaves a distinctly bad taste and I believe will further erode public trust in a profession rooted in the ethics of care for all who are in need.
John J. Mohr, M.D.
St. Luke's Regional Medical Center - Wednesday 8am, Anderson Center
Mercy Medical Center - Wednesday 12:30pm
VA Medical Center - Thursday 8am, AW Horsley Learning Ctr.
St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center - Friday 8am, Centennial Room
1 New Vaccines with Focus on the Adolescent Health Visit, Tom Rand, MD
8 Topic TBA, Greg Johnson, MD
15 Travel Medicine, Amy Baruch, MD
15 Medical Support in Disaster Management (Mercy), Arun, Noah, MD
17 Topic TBA, Katherine Miller, MD
22 Update on Stroke, Helmi Lutsep, MD
24 Radiological Options to Assist in Pain Management, Neil Davey, MD
29 Update on Gallbladder and Biliary Disease, Stephen Schutz, MD
Summer Schedule,No Conferences
4 Adolescent Risk Taking Behavior, Elizabeth Gailis, MD
11 Current Treatment for Hyperlipidemia, Baseem El-Masri, MD
18 Update on Osteoporosis, Michael McClung, MD
25 Update on Kidney Disease, Jean Bender, MD
4 BPH, Wilfred Watkins, MD
11 Current Treatment for Hyperlipidemia, Baseem El-Masri, MD
18 Update on Osteoporosis, Michael McClung, MD
25 Update on Kidney Disease, Jean Bender, MD
5 Clinical Evaluation of Androgen Deficiency, Al Matsumoto, MD
12 The Story of My Research, Nirmal Charan, MD
19 Sleep Apnea, Daniel Lowery, MD
26 Literature Updates in the Past Five Years that Have Changed the Way I Practice, Doug Paauw, MD
6 Sports Enhancing Drugs, Scot Scheffel, MD
13 Update on Anti-convulsants, David Vossler, MD
20 Minimally Invasive Bariatric Surgery, Robert Cahn, MD
27 Topic TBA, Jill Kalcich, MD
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