Many of you were at the Faculty Club on October 24-25 for the special 50th anniversary edition of our Annual Department Retreat! We experienced panels of interesting speakers, stimulating workshops, a slide show of photos from the 25th anniversary celebration, and prizes of books authored by our department members. But mostly we revelled in seeing colleagues and friends, while learning and sharing together. For those of you who missed it, in the series that will be forthcoming throughout our 50th anniversary year.
As part of the 50th anniversary, the Department is running a 5 Words campaign. All department members, as well as our students, our patients, and the public are invited to participate. .
We are also taking nominations for your Family Medicine heroes as part of the 50th anniversary! Please nominate using . This month we are highlighting the following people:
- Dr. Catherine Jarvis, Director of Faculty Development in the Department
- Prof. Sarah Konwahahawi Rourke, a member of our Department who is also the Director of the Indigenous Health Professions Program.
- Shashika Bandara, who recently obtained his PhD at our Department
The Department of Family Medicine has been in the McGill and external news a great deal over the past month:
- Dr. Mickey Moroz won the JD Boudreau Award for his work as an Osler Fellow. Read more.
- Resident Dr. Bradley Martire was featured in this story about rural family medicine. Read more.
- I was interviewed about the INESSS report that was released on October 10th: and .
In personnel news, we welcomed Stephanie Tave as Graduate Program Administrator, working with Cheryl Bethelmy, Graduate Program Manager, on October 28th! At St. Mary’s Hospital, big personnel changes are pending, as Susan Fereira, who has managed the residency program for years, will be retiring at the end of 2024, and we recently learned that Dr. Maureen Doyle will be stepping down as Medical Director of the U-FMG at the end of March 2025. Both of them will leave huge shoes to fill.
In academic positions, please consider applying for the following vacant positions in the DFM:
1) Assistant Director of Distributed Medical Education. Info.
2) Assistant Director for Transition to Clinical Practice. Info.
November promises to be a busy month with several major conferences for our discipline:
- the Family Medicine Forum in Vancouver from the 6-9
- the North American Primary Care Research Group meeting in Quebec City from the 20-24
- the McGill Family Medicine Refresher Course from the 25-27 with a procedural skills workshop on the 29th (). Please attend the 75th anniversary celebration of the Refresher Course, to be held on November 24th at the Bonaventure Hotel (register here).
Until next month, very warmly as always,
Marion
