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SGIM eNews August 27, 2014

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SGIM eNews

August 27, 2014

eNews You Can Use

 

 

 

 

SGIM Disparities Task Force Group Mentoring

Call

Save the Date:

Join us for the next SGIM Disparities Task Force Group Mentoring Call!

"Taking on Roles as Consultants"

 

Mentors: Valerie Stone, M.D. and Som Saha, M.D.

 

Date and Time:

Monday, September 15th 4:00 p.m. (ET)

 

The SGIM Disparities Task Force would like to hear from you. Do you have questions that you would like to have answered in this session?

 

Register and submit questions for the mentoring call by clicking the link below:

Register NOW!

 

To learn more about the Disparities Task Force

click here.

 

6th Annual Academic Hospitalist Academy

Calling all academic hospitalists! The 6th Annual Academic Hospitalist Academy will be held October 20-23rd in Englewood, CO. Register by July 21st and receive early bird pricing! For more information and testimonials from AHA alumni, visit www.academichospitalist.org.

 

 

 

Call for UpToDate Reviewers

 

SGIM is looking for additional SGIM members to review a series of educational materials from Up to Date Inc. UpToDate is an evidence based, peer reviewed information resource that includes a synthesis of literature, the latest evidence, and specific recommendations for patient care. Reviewers evaluate educational materials designed to inform patients and may be selected for one or more modules during the year. Eligible candidates should be practicing clinicians--please forward a CV to Leslie Dunne at

dunnel@sgim.org

 

 

AHRQ Releases New Streaming Video on Strategies to Prevent Weight Gain in Adults

 

A new continuing-education video from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)'s Effective Health Care (EHC) Program summarizes evidence comparing the effectiveness and safety of strategies to prevent weight gain among adults. The video, based on the Comparative Effectiveness Review, Comparative Effectiveness of Strategies for Weight Gain Prevention Among Adults, shows evidence that certain interventions and approaches may help prevent weight gain. The streaming video is available at no cost for continuing-education credit here: http://bit.ly/1vQH7Sx.

 

 

 

Monday is Labor Day and you know what that means...

 

The Call for Workshops, Updates and Interest Groups will go into the mail on Tuesday!

 

Keep your eyes open on the mail, and prepare yourself for a new meeting website and an updated ScholarOne site.

 

Get your thinking caps on! The deadline to submit is six weeks away - Monday October 6 at 9 AM EASTERN TIME.

 

 

TEACH and LEAD calls for applications

 

Looking to improve your skills? SGIM offers the following one year hybrid in-person and online certificate programs:

*Attendance is required at two consecutive annual meetings with online activities during the year between.

 

 

 

Milbank Memorial Fund Releases New Primary Care State Data

 

Milbank Memorial Fundhas released a report titled Aligning Payers and Practices to Transform Primary Care: A Report from the Multi-State Collaborative. The publication describes the efforts of 17 different states to transform their primary care delivery systems in order to improve the health of their populations and reduce costs.

The report highlights how these states went about transforming primary care to patient-centered medical homes (PCMH) -as a working definition of high-performing primary care practice -through aligned payment reform.

There are four major takeaways regarding multi-payer primary care transformation that have implications for primary care transformation, state-convened provider payment reform initiatives, and health care transformation efforts requiring alignment across multiple payers:

  • Health care cost containment (and therefore affordability) cannot be achieved without delivery system transformation across multiple aligned payers.
  • Delivery system transformation is predicated upon access to high-quality primary care and supporting services.
  • High-quality primary care is more likely to occur in a consistently supported and formally recognized PCMH setting.
  • The creation and nurturing of primary care transformation can only be successful in a uniformly applied multi-payer model coupled with collaborative learning and team-based care.

This report helps stakeholders across the board -policymakers, payers, health plans, and health care providers -understand what it takes to make health system reform achievable.

 

 

Health Disparities Education: Train the Trainer Guide

 

The SGIM Disparities Task Force Health Disparities Education: Train the Trainer Guide is now available on MedEdPortal, AAMC's online peer-reviewed compendium of medical education scholarship.

 

Health Disparities Education Train-the-Trainer Guide

This comprehensive tool is used to facilitate developing, implementing and evaluating health disparities education. The Guide includes five modules that highlight several fundamental concepts in health disparities, suggestions for teaching about health disparities in a wide range of settings, and strategies for curriculum evaluation at various stages of training for undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education.

 

 

 

 

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