FMEC in Focus - January, 2019
The 2019 FMEC Annual Meeting will be held in Lancaster, PA, November 1-3
Ohio DPC Unsummit VII
Help Us Build a Better Heath Care System in Central Pennsylvania
Please join the Family Medicine Education Consortium from 7:30 - 9:00 a.m. on Friday, February 1st, 2019 in Lancaster, PA to discuss ways that together we can meet this challenge. Breakfast will be provided and ideas will be shared!

The Ladder Institute

The LADDER Institute will be a year-long program with initial and final meetings held in conjunction with the FMEC Annual meeting. A midyear in-person meeting will occur with date and location to follow. Longitudinal programming between meetings will occur through webinars focused on leadership development skills. Participants will be linked with a career development mentor who will assist each participant in developing a summative career development plan.

Background
The FMEC seeks to develop the full potential of Family Medicine. The full potential lies in the future, and emerging and mid-career leaders will shape this future. We seek to identify and nurture those who will become visionary leaders and advocates for Family Medicine within our health systems.

The LADDER Initiative will serve to provide a sustainable longitudinal leadership development program for select emerging and mid-career leaders that will focus on setting strategic personal and professional objectives and developing the skills to build influence and make a difference. Learn More
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DPC - 2019 Summit
The 2019 Direct Primary Care Summit will be held in Chicago, Illinois June 28-30.

At the FMEC conference in Rye, NY, we were once again reminded of the power of stories--to convey the work that we do, to foster self-care among our residents and students, to role-model compassion and vulnerability, and to promote social justice.

If you're on the lookout for outstanding first-person stories to share with residents, students and colleagues--pieces written by residents, patients, students, doctors, nurses and other health professionals--I'd encourage you to check out Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine, founded over ten years ago by the Department of Family and Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine and powered by a national community of contributors and editors.

If you subscribe, you'll receive every Friday in your inbox a compelling, professionally edited piece that captures the personal side of health care--short enough to be read aloud and gripping enough to spark rich discussion.  Pulse stories are used by health educators and are routinely picked up by the Washington Post, Reader's Digest, Business Insider and KevinMD.

Here are some recent examples:

Wounded Healer--a sexual assault survivor moves on
Right Coat Ceremony--a medical student fakes it until she makes it
The Words I Did Not Say--a resident looks back, in a comic strip, on sentiments that went unexpressed 

Don Berwick, founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and former Administrator of Medicare and Medicaid Services said, "I don't just read Pulse, I adore it. The supply of compelling, often poetic accounts is the best around."

The Pulse community of over 11,000 subscribers is vibrant and participatory. We welcome submissions from your residents, your students, your colleagues, your patients--and from you. Subscriptions are free, although we do welcome contributions.

Check out the Pulse website, and please be in touch if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Paul Gross
There are Few Shortcuts To Health: by A Country Doctor Writes

People aged 70-90 who follow a Mediterranean diet, are physically active, have moderate alcohol use, and are nonsmokers have less than half the heart attack, cancer and overall death rate of people who eat an average Western diet and have more average habits. This was the remarkable conclusion of the  2004 HALE study , involving people from eleven countries.

And the  2014 PREDIMED study  demonstrated a 35-50% reduction in cardiovascular events by simply consuming extra virgin olive oil.

But there’s little money to be made for the pharmaceutical and health care establishment by promoting healthy eating habits.

In this week’s New England Journal of Medicine, there are two articles with opposite results from the use of different omega-3 fatty acids.

The first one, sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry, showed a  25% risk reduction from a supplement with  Eicosapentaenoic acid  (EPA), naturally found in fatty fish like salmon.


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