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PRESIDENT'S CORNER
THE IMPORTANCE OF
ORGANIZED MEDICINE TO GME
Paul Bozyk, MD, OCMS President I believe organized medicine offers all the
components required for an excellent residency or fellowship. How can we as leaders of medicine demon- strate this to our doctors in training?
We can all recall outstanding mentors from our medical training. They modeled attributes for us all to learn, whether it was how to have professional yet friendly interactions, or how to make learning fun through rapid fire questions during rounds. While we all have had several memorable educators during medical school, I feel mentors during residency (and maybe fellowship for some) are potentially most influential. During Graduate Medical Education (GME) training, residents and fellows are preparing for autonomous practice in the area of medicine where they have chosen to make a difference in the world.
Now let’s consider our colleagues who participate in organized medicine. Just as I had wonderful mentors in residency and fellowship, I also had those who mod- elled excellence for me in OCMS, MSMS, and the AMA. I can envision 6 areas of strength (with substantial overlap) when I consider what these mentors taught, combined with the vast expanse of opportunity and advocacy that organized medicine offers:
1. Professionalism and adherence to ethical princi- ples. We see this every day, from each individual member, to webinars on bioethics,
to guidance provided from the American Medical Association’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs.
2. Patient care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective for treatment of health, and promotion of health problems.
3. Medical knowledge of established and evolving information, and its application to patient care. A quick search will find access to this through annual and Spring Scientific meetings, as well as other courses and webinars.
4. Practice-based learning, which is the ability
to investigate and evaluate the outcome of
care to promote lifelong learning to improve patient care. The House of Medicine is continual- ly undergoing self-evaluation to seek best practice across all fields of medicine.
5. Interpersonal and communication skills that result in effective collaboration. Different from a specialty society, organized medicine relies on effective collaboration from all aspects of medicine to advocate for optimal patient care.
6. Systems-based Practice, promoting an awareness to the larger context of health care across systems and the ability to find the resources needed to optimize health care. This is the duty of the House of Delegates, who bring this context to the optimization of the standards of organized medicine in Michigan.
By now, the residency and fellowship directors reading this have caught me. These, my friends, are the same six core competencies set forth by the Accredita- tion Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the accrediting body for GME. Success in resident and fellowship training programs comes through demon- stration that trainees have exposure for growth in all these areas.
Beyond the amazing clinician-educators across Oakland County, organized medicine has a robust opportunity to contribute to the development of our residents and fellows through their active participation in OCMS in a way that complements their medical training. As a fellowship director myself, I am happy to use educational funds to cover the $40 per person/year for their membership promoting growth in the core competencies set forth by the ACGME. Beyond that, OCMS offers additional workshops in financial planning, medical-legal affairs, and other educational items essential to preparation for being a newly autonomous physician.
As I first stated, I believe organized medicine offers all the components required for an excellent residency or fellowship. Beyond that, it has additional benefits of preparation for post-training practice, and opportunity to steer health care through advocacy, within a larger community of physicians. As physician leaders, let’s see where we have a chance to bring the next generation of physicians into our ranks.
If you would like OCMS to connect with your residents or fellows, please contact Cindy Dady at cdady@ocms-mi.org.
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