The Committee on Advancing the Science of Family Medicine (CASFM) and Family Practice are excited to announce a new partnership. This endeavour will publish peer reviewed CASFM Methods Briefs in each Family Practice issue and maintain a balance between briefs focused on quantitative and qualitative research methods.
It is with much gratitude that we salute Dr. Mark Karanofsky for his leadership as Director of the Undergraduate Program for the 鶹AV Department of Family Medicine, a position he has held for over two and a half years. He officially stepped down from this position on September 30, 2018. Since July 2018, he has been the interim Unit Director of the Herzl Family Practice Centre of the Jewish General Hospital.
It is with pleasure that we announce the appointment of Dr. Goldie Marmor to the position of Director of Undergraduate Education for the Department of Family Medicine of 鶹AV as of October 1, 2018.
Reporting directly to the Chair of the Department of Family Medicine as well as to the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Medical Education, Dr. Marmor is responsible for all undergraduate teaching activities within the Department of Family Medicine.
Associate Program Director for Assessment and Evaluation
Post-Graduate Division
Department of Family Medicine, 鶹AV
JOB DESCRIPTION
4 years renewable / 1.5 days per week
The Associate Program Director for Assessment and Evaluation is expected:
Dear friends and colleagues,
I would like to start by welcoming you into this new academic year. As the weather slowly becomes cooler, the change of seasons acts as a reminder of the opportunities and challenges for the coming year.
Perhaps, it is only fitting to start this message by quoting the first line of A Tale of Two Cities, famous novel written by Charles Dickens: “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.”
It is fair to say the 鶹AV Department of Family Medicine has always worked towards making primary health care accessible by focusing efforts on professional and curriculum development not only within the walls of the institution, but also beyond.
We wish to congratulate Ran van der Wal, PhD candidate in Family, for being among the latest cohort of Vanier Canada Scholars for 2018-2019.
Her research focuses on helping vulnerable young women in Botswana by co-design solutions to improve access to government support programs through a structural approach to HIV prevention. To learn more, click here.
Longitudinal Family Medicine Experience Assistant Course Director
Department of Family Medicine, 鶹AV
JOB DESCRIPTION
Director of Undergraduate Education
Department of Family Medicine, 鶹AV
JOB DESCRIPTION
We wish to congratulate Dr. Yvonne Steinert, who was made a Member of the Order of Canada by Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada, for her contributions to the advancement of pedagogical principles, faculty development and new training approaches in Canadian medical education.
We would like to congratulate Dr. Miriam Boillat, who received the 2018 Todd McConnell Award for Outstanding Patient Care, given by the Association for Physicians, Dentists and Pharmacists of St-Mary's Hospital. The award was given to Dr. Boillat on May 23rd, during the annual Hingston Dinner.
The use of single-disease clinical guidelines is not appropriate for the management of patients with multimorbidity, the occurrence of multiple chronic disease in one patient. developed guidelines that can be integrated and may result in improvement of patient quality of care.
Just last month, Cristina Longo successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Treatment Considerations and Prescribing Issues for Obese Children with Asthma,” making her the first ad hoc PhD graduate of the Department of Family Medicine of 鶹AV. We sat down with her, as well as her long-time supervisor, Dr. Gillian Bartlett.
The weather is warmer than ever and people are now enjoying the sunny days that Montreal have to offer. Despite the temptation to lay in the sun all day, large numbers of students, residents and members of the Department of Family Medicine turned out for a week of learning and research-based conversations. As such, the 4th Annual Family Medicine Research Division and Graduate Student Society Symposium and the Isaac Tannenbaum Family Medicine Resident Research Day were held respectively on May 30th and June 1st, 2018.
We wish to congratulate Drs. Fanny Hersson-Edery and Bertrand Lebouché on both receiving awards of the for their contribution to teaching and research in family medicine.