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Several Terrific Learning & Networking Events Slated for 2023
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
By: Kathryn Atkinson, CMP
Director of CME & Events
~ PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ~
Get ready to celebrate the specialty of Family Medicine all year long with the NCAFP! We have several fantastic learning opportunities slated for 2023, and we think you will really like what we have planned. Whether you enjoy in-person learning and networking, convenient virtual learning from anywhere, or both … We’ve got you covered!
2023 FAMILY MEDICINE ACADEMIC SUMMIT
The 2nd Annual Family Medicine Academic Summit, scheduled for February 17- 18, 2023, is a calendar highlight for all NC medical school departments of family medicine and NC family medicine residency programs. This two-day in-person conference will be held at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel Raleigh Durham Airport RTP. The “Working in Collaboratives – Meeting the New ACGME Guidelines” seminar is themed around Point of Care Ultrasound and will include terrific networking, regional collaboration, and CME credit. The Academic Summit will roll right into the NCAFP’s 16th Annual Family Medicine Day Conference on Saturday, February 18, 2023. A fun day of hands-on skills training led by family medicine residents, the highlight of this event is the Residency Recruiting Fair. Designed to introduce medical students to North Carolina’s diverse array of family medicine
residency training programs, Family Medicine Day is always an NCAFP highlight for students, residents, and residency programs. Save the dates for now. Complete schedule information and online registration for both programs are coming soon.
2023 VIRTUAL SUMMER SYMPOSIUM
The 3rd Annual Virtual Summer Symposium is slated for Saturday, June 24, 2023. This fun and lively web-based learning opportunity will earn participants approximately six credits by their participation. Count on a fun day of convenient online learning from wherever you are that day! Plan to take advantage of a pre-conference virtual KSA opportunity on Friday, June 23, 2023, and scoop up eight additional credits and 10 ABFM activity points. Watch your email for more information coming soon on this terrific summertime CME opportunity that you will not want to miss.
NETWORKING DINNERS WITH 30-MINUTE HOT TOPIC EXCHANGES
Before the pandemic, the NCAFP hosted several fun and highly attended regional dinner programs around the state. We are excited to bring similar networking and learning opportunities back to Charlotte and Chapel Hill next year. These fun, mid-week dinner programs with your colleagues and friends are the perfect after-office-hours opportunity to earn up to 1.5 CME credits. Attendees will enjoy three 30-minute hot topic updates with take-home pearls to begin using right away. The Charlotte meeting will be hosted at the Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center Family Medicine Residency on Thursday, March 30, 2023. The Chapel Hill meeting will be hosted at the UNC Family Medicine Center on Tuesday, September 19, 2023. You will see more details coming soon for both programs.
Last but not least, there will be quite a celebration during the 2023 Winter Family Physicians Weekend! Make your plans now to be in Asheville next November 30 – December 3, 2023, when your NCAFP marks its 75th Anniversary! From start to finish, we intend to celebrate and honor the specialty of family medicine and all of you. Your program chair, Dr. Tamieka Howell, and your program vice-chair, Dr. Thomas White, will keep you engaged and connected all weekend long with updates on timely clinical topics you see and treat most often. Count on surprises and lots of fun sprinkled in to commemorate our diamond jubilee. We can’t wait to celebrate this milestone anniversary with you!
A brand-new year is right around the corner, and we hope to see you at that these terrific learning and networking opportunities. Watch your email and our website for more information coming soon.
CME RECAP:
The Recent Virtual Summer Symposium Was a Cool Learning Experience for Many
By: Kathryn Atkinson, CMP
Director of CME & Events
In early August, your NCAFP CME Team hosted a fun and lively web-based learning opportunity that proved to be a very cool learning experience for over 140 Family Physicians and their healthcare partners. Attendees joined in for the second annual Virtual Summer Symposium from the comfort of their sofas, sunrooms, patios, and kayaks (yes, kayaks!) and enjoyed a fun day of learning and discovery. With a variety of 60-minute, 45-minute, and 30-minute learning sessions, the day served up 6 AAFP Prescribed Credits from start to finish. The convenient virtual sessions included clinical updates on hyperkalemia, Alzheimer’s, overactive bladder, diabetes, PrEP, foot & ankle treatments, and newborn care. An important coding and billing update and a telemedicine update from the NC Medical Board also rounded out the schedule. Over 60 attendees also took advantage of a pre-conference KSA on Heart Disease for an additional eight CME credits. Here are a few of our favorite comments from the overall conference survey: “I continue to enjoy and appreciate these virtual CME opportunities!”
“Well done! Amount of break time appropriate. Lectures great. Speakers engaging.”
“Everything was excellent. I absolutely enjoyed spending my day learning with the NCAFP today. Thank you for this opportunity”
“Well-run conference, with great communication before, during, and after, and excellent platforms. Thanks again!” The NCAFP Meetings Department would also like to extend a big heartfelt thank you to program chair, Dr. Thomas R. White, and the many terrific guest faculty who shared their expertise and knowledge with our attendees. Lastly, please join us in thanking the Avance Care team for their kind sponsorship of the Symposium’s mobile app. We are excited to host this much-appreciated virtual learning program again next year. Mark your calendars now for the next Virtual Summer Symposium scheduled for Saturday, June 24, 2023. More details are coming soon!
Family Medicine Day
February 18, 2023!
Medical Students should plan to be in Durham on February 18th for Family Medicine Day! Come and join us to get hands on training from 14 of our incredible NC Residency Programs, and learn more about the great variety of scope a career in Family Medicine can provide -- including a great lineup of hands-on workshops!
Mock Interviews Osteopathic Approach to Headaches POCUS Ultrasound Guided Injections Suturing Wound Care Wilderness Medicine Backboards and Braces Skin Procedures SPG Blocks Cervical Blocks LARC Emotional Resilience Amniotomies and Internal Fetal Monitoring
REGISTRATION OPENS IN DECEMBER FOR NCAFP'S 2023 SUMMER PROGRAMS FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS
Once again, the NCAFP is excited to offer a variety of opportunities for students to immerse themselves in Family Medicine in a multitude of locations!
• 2-Week Family Medicine Immersion • 4-Week Externship
NCAFP expects to offer two locations for our 2-week Immersion Program, as well as offering our 4-week Externship in locations across the state!
Contact Perry Price, Manager of Workforce Initiatives, with any questions at perry@ncafp.com
*If you are interested in hosting students in your practice during the summer for any length of time, please reach out to Perry at perry@ncafp.com!
MEMBERSHIP & MEMBER SERVICES
MEMBERS IN THE NEWS
Dr. Viviana Martinez-Bianchi Honored by Foundation for Health Leadership and Innovation
The Foundation for Health Leadership and Innovation (FHLI) presented the winners of its annual awards on Oct. 6 during the organization’s Annual Bernstein Dinner at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill.
“These award winners represent innovation, empathy, and a deep dedication to improving health outcomes,” said David Reese, president and CEO of FHLI. “It’s an honor to recognize their decades of service in North Carolina.”
The 2022 FHLI Community Achievement Award was presented to Dr. Viviana Martinez- Bianchi, M.D., FAAFP, of the Department of Family Medicine at Duke Health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she co-founded the Latinx Advocacy Team & Interdisciplinary Network for COVID-19, better known as LATIN-19.
“LATIN-19 is creating space for leaders across North Carolina to collaborate on innovative solutions to the unique barriers faced within the Latinx community,” said Reese. “This organization and Dr. Martinez-Bianchi’s leadership are testaments to the importance of diverse voices having a seat at the table to create more equitable health systems.” “I want to make sure that this recognition goes also to those who have worked tirelessly with LATIN-19, collectively joining in the effort to improve the health outcomes of the comunidad latina in North Carolina and the US,” said Dr. Martinez-Bianchi.
The 2022 FHLI Community Achievement Award recognizes individuals who have dedicated their careers to improving the health of communities, exemplifying the values lived by Jim Bernstein: everyone has a right to care; care should be delivered in a respectful, efficient, and effective manner; and health care belongs to the community it serves. The award recipient has had an impact, like Bernstein, at the community, state, and federal level and is deeply respected among their peers.
The 2022 Jim Bernstein Community Health Career Achievement Award was be presented to Randy Jordan, outgoing CEO of the North Carolina Association of Free and Charitable Clinics. Jordan, who retired in 2022, is a longtime supporter and partner of FHLI. The Jim Bernstein Community Health Career Achievement Award recognizes individuals who are invested in improving the health of their community or region.
About Jim Bernstein The Bernstein Event honors the late Jim Bernstein, the founder and first president of the Foundation for Health Leadership & Innovation. Bernstein dedicated his life and work to improving health care in rural communities across North Carolina. An innovator and a motivator, he served as a role model for how to address some of rural health care’s most pressing challenges.
About FHLI Launched in 1982, under the leadership of James D. Bernstein, the Foundation for Health Leadership & Innovation develops innovative programs and establishes strong partnerships that advance affordable, sustainable, quality health services that improve the overall health of communities in North Carolina and beyond.
Past President Dr Shannon Dowler Promoted – Named One of Two Deputy CMOs for NC DHHS
NC DHHS Secretary Kody Kinsley recently announced a reorganization and expanded roles for some of the Department’s medical leadership in order to better resource their cross-departmental work and support the Department’s three overarching priorities – Behavioral Health & Resilience, Strong & Inclusive Workforce, and Child & Family Wellbeing – and ensuring a foundation of health equity and whole person health is woven throughout the Department.
Dr. Shannon Dowler will serve as the NC DHHS Deputy CMO for Health Access, in addition to remaining the Chief Medical Officer for Medicaid. In this more expanded DHHS role, Dr. Dowler will work at the direction of Debra Farrington, Chief Health Equity Officer, in supporting the Health Equity Portfolio and Health Equity team as they provide departmental leadership to health equity. She will bring clinical and operational expertise to multiple health equity issues which align with Departmental priorities with a focus on embedding equity in payment models and in clinical frameworks and policy. She will continue her strong leadership in the Medicaid program where she oversees the Clinical, Quality and Population Health teams. In this new role, Dr. Dowler, will continue to report directly to Deputy Secretary for Medicaid and will have matrix reporting to Dr. Elizabeth Tilson, NC DHHS CMO and State Health Director. She will begin to transition into this role immediately and will be fully effective 1/1/2023.
Dr. Carrie Brown will serve as the NC DHHS Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Chief Psychiatrist. In this role, Dr. Brown will continue and expand upon DHHS’s work in promoting integrated physical and behavioral healthcare, child and family well-being and behavioral public health. She will lead the department’s Behavioral Health and Resilience priority area initiatives. She will continue her partnership with key stakeholders for behavioral health, substance use disorder, intellectual and developmental disabilities, traumatic brain injuries, and provide medical leadership for the Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Use Services. She will also continue to serve as the Chief Medical Officer for State Operated Health Facilities. As Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Chief Psychiatrist, Dr. Brown, will continue to report directly to the Deputy Secretary for Health and will have matrix reporting to Dr. Elizabeth Tilson, NC DHHS CMO and State Health Director.
2022 CME Re-Election Deadline is December 31st
Members with a CME Re-election cycle ending 12/31/22 have until the end of this year to earn the 150 required credits for the three-year re-election cycle. The cancelation date for any unreported CME credits will be early March, so make plans now to report your hours before the holiday rush. Reporting by the 12/31/22 deadline will also remove you from any reminder notifications. You may report your credits any of the following ways:
• Visit www.aafp.org/cme (your username is your email address on file with AAFP) • Call 1-800-274-2237 M-F 9:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. • Fax to 913-906-6075 • Scan letters of participation on AAFP’s free mobile app • Mail submissions to: AAFP Member Service Center, 11400 Tomahawk Creek Parkway, Leawood, KS 66211-2672
If you have retired, interrupted practice, or moved out of NC, please contact the AAFP immediately for a status transfer or chapter relocation. If you are a 2023 re-election candidate, remember that you may count teaching/precepting, Board certification exam, and medical staff/society meetings. And a bonus, the AAFP will inform the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) once you have met its CME requirement!
