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What Medical Students Need to Know about Choosing a Georgia Family Medicine Residency ProgramClick to Download PowerPoint Presentation
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Students Needed at Free Local Clinics!
ATTENTION STUDENTS! Many of you have contacted the GAFP with interest in volunteering in area clinics. The Georgia Free Clinic Network represents health care providers across Georgia that provide free care or with a minimal fee. To learn more about a clinic in your area, please contact Donna E. Looper, Executive Director at (404) 797-1592. Visit www.gfcn.org.
March 20, 2008
GAFP Staff Visits FMIG Students
Over the course of the last month, GAFP Director of Communications and Meeting Marketing Khristina Newman has traveled to both Morehouse School of Medicine and Mercer University School of Medicine to meet with Family Medicine Interest Group students. This outreach effort is aimed at building a working relationship with medical students as a means of further engaging them with the GAFP and family physicians. In the upcoming months, Khristina will visit Emory, MCG and PCOM.
Congratulations newly-elected Mercer FMIG officers: Arywn Martin, president; Matthew Campbell, vice president; Amy Luce, secretary; and Alice Maynard and Aarthi Sridhar, co-treasurers.
May 10, 2007
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As president of the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians, I am writing
to invite you to participate in a new Academy task force with a two-fold
mission that we all share:
To increase student interest in family medicine; and to
enhance selection of Georgia family medicine residency programs by
medical students.
By combining the work force and resources of the Academy, the state medical schools and the state residency programs, we can accomplish more for family medicine in Georgia than any of us could accomplish alone.
The Task Force on Student and Resident Affairs will have its first meeting on Saturday, Oct. 14, at 11 a.m. at the GAFP headquarters in Tucker. Subsequently, there will be three meetings per year held in conjunction with the Academy’s quarterly Board of Directors meetings, as is customary for GAFP.
It is my intent to recommend to the Bylaws Committee that the Task Force on Student and Resident Affairs become a standing committee of the Georgia Academy. I welcome your attendance at this meeting. Please contact the GAFP office at (404) 321-7445 or by e-mail at gafp@gafp.org if you can attend.
Sincerely,
Susan C. Margletta, MD
President
August 16, 2006
Foundation Sponsors Pathway Program Helps Students Interested in Primary
Care
The Pathway to Medical School is a novel collaboration aimed at helping college
students interested in primary care improve their chances of being accepted
into a Georgia medical school.
The program is spearheaded by Sean Bryan, MD, FAAFP, program director of
Southwest Georgia Family Medicine Residency (SWGFMR) at Phoebe Putney Memorial
Hospital, and James Hotz, MD, who founded Albany Area Primary Healthcare
(AAPHC). The Foundation of the GAFP contributed $2,500 to Pathway and will
be monitoring the program for future family physicians.
In the fall of 2004, Southwest Georgia Area Health Education Center (SOWEGA-AHEC)
staff members polled members of the admissions committees of the allopathic
medical schools located in Georgia and asked what criteria separated
candidates’ applications
and increased their chances of being accepted to their schools. There was
a consensus among admissions committees that evidence of an applicant’s
participation in a structured clinical shadowing experience was most
beneficial, followed by evidence of participation in medical research.
Based on this information, the Pathway to Medical School program was
designed as a 160-hour structured experience consisting of 100 hours
of clinical shadowing and 60 hours of primary care research. To avoid
conflicts with college courses, the program was scheduled over a four-week
block during the summer.
For the pilot session, launched on July 11, 16 pre-med students applied and
the eight who were invited to participate completed the four-week program
on Aug. 5.
If student interest and funding allow, the number of pre-med students invited
to participate will increase to 16 per year, with two blocks of eight participants
each starting in the summer of 2006.
For more information on the program, contact Dr. Sean Bryan at sbryan@ppmh.org.
How to Join
Students: Visit http://www.aafp.org/studentbenefits.xml to apply for student membership online, or you can fill out the form below to receive more information about AAFP student memberships.
The Foundation of the GAFP pays the GAFP and AAFP membership dues for medical students at each of the four medical schools in Georgia . This gives the students an opportunity to learn about the GAFP and AAFP by receiving the publications and attending meetings.
Student Mentors
Many medical students in Georgia are interested in learning more
about the real world of family medicine. The link below will take
you to a listing of practicing physicians who have volunteered to
serve as student mentors. If you would like to have a family
physician mentor, you should identify a preferred geographic area
and then contact a physician on the list. The opportunitites are not
pre-arranged and each student/mentor may determine how much
time and what type of experience will be most beneficial.
Read an article by Janelle Mahdi, Mercer,
about her mentor, Beulette Hooks, MD.
Georgia Family Medicine Residency Programs
Southwest Georgia Family Medicine Residency
Sean Bryan, M.D., Program Director
Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital
2336 Dawson Rd, Suite 2200
Albany, GA 31707
Phone: (229) 312-8871
Fax: (229) 312-8473
website
Emory Family Practice Residency
Eddie Needham, M.D.
Residency Program Chair
4555 N. Shallowford Rd.
Atlanta, GA 30338
Phone: (404) 770-452-3370
website
Atlanta Medical Center Family Practice Residency
Frank R. Don Diego, Jr., M.D., Program Director
Georgia Baptist Fam. Prac. Ctr.
1000 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 200
Morrow, GA 30260
Phone: (770) 968-6464
Fax: (770) 968-6465
website
Morehouse Family Practice Residency
Folashade Omole, MD, Program Director
Morehouse School of Medicine
Dept. of Family Practice
1513 E. Cleveland Ave
Bldg 100, 3rd Floor, Ste. 300A
East Point, GA 30344
Phone: (800) 724-1025
Fax: (404) 756-1229
website
Medical College of Georgia Family Practice Residency
Paul D. Forney, M.D., Program Director
MCG - Dept. of Family Medicine
Augusta, GA 30912
Phone: (706) 721-3157
Fax: (706) 721-6123
website
Columbus Family Practice Residency
John R. Bucholtz, DO, Program Director
710 Center, Box 106
Columbus, GA 31904
Phone: (706) 571-1430
Fax: (706) 571-1604
website
Medical Center of Central Georgia Family Practice Residency
Roberta Weintraut, M.D., Program Director
Medical Center of Central Ga.
3780 Eisenhower Parkway
Macon, GA 31206
Phone: (478) 784-3589
Fax: (478) 784-3550
website
Rome Family Practice Residency Program
Randy G. Robinson, M.D., Program Director
#2 Professional Court
Rome, GA 30165
Phone: (706) 292-3901
Fax: (706) 292-3920
website
Memorial Health University Medical Center Family Practice Residency
Harold DuCloux, M.D., Program Director
Memorial Medical Center
P.O. Box 23089
Savannah, GA 31403
Phone: (912) 350-8838
Fax: (912) 350-5118
website
Satilla Regional Family Practice Residency
George Wheeler, M.D., Program Director
1218 Alice Street
Waycross, GA 31501
Phone: (912) 287-4168
Fax: (912) 284-2450
website
Martin Army Community Hospital
Lt. Col. Steven Reissman, D.O., Program Director
Family Practice Residency
Martin Army Community Hospital
Ft. Benning, GA 31905
Phone: (706) 544-3053
Fax: (706) 544-3234
website
A listing of all family practice residency programs nationwide can be found on the AAFP web page.
Virtual Family Medicine Interest Group
Medical College of Georgia Family Medicine Interest Group
Mercer University Family Medicine Interest Group
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