The 25th Forum for Behavioral Science in Family Medicine
The Forum's Silver Anniversary
Downtown Chicago: September 30 - October 3, 2004

This Year's Theme:
"Embracing the Core, Creating the Future"

About this year's theme:
The educational purpose of the Forum is to assist primary care faculty in understanding and developing their academic roles in family medicine residency education. Academic roles include common faculty practices in educational research, instructional design and teaching. Because the meeting focuses on behavioral sciences, the purpose is explicitly targeted to psychologists, social workers and physicians interested in behavioral science education.

The Forum has three key objectives that are supplemented by session objectives specific to each of the teaching workshops and seminars. These are the three overall objectives and specific details about them:

Build professionally helpful connections to those with diverse backgrounds

• Through networking and instructional sessions, participants will report one or more productive interactions with colleagues from different professional and cultural backgrounds

Plan, provide and/or evaluate effective educational experiences in behavioral science

• Participants will acquire one or more instructional skills for teaching the required (ACGME) competencies
• Participants will acquire one or more instructional skills for assessing the required (ACGME) competencies

Share new ideas in behavioral science teaching and patient care

• Through resource exchanges with presenters and co-participants, participants will acquire new methods and tools for teaching and/or patient care.
  

The Forum is sponsored by the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. The planning committee is national in scope as is the draw of the conference participants. The Forum is designed to be an intimate gathering (<150 people) to help each participant to attain their learning goals.

Accreditation
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Medical College of Wisconsin designates this educational activity for a maximum of 16.25 category 1 credits toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity.

The Medical College of Wisconsin designates this activity for up to 16.25 contact hours of continuing education for allied health professionals.

The Medical College of Wisconsin is an approved Social Worker Continuing Education Sponsor in the State of Illinois, License No. 159-000664.

The Medical College of Wisconsin is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. The Medical College of Wisconsin maintains responsibility for the program. Partial credits will not be awarded.

This activity has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 16 Prescribed and 1.5 Elective credits by the American Academy of Family Physicians.

For a copy of the brochure in Abode PDF format, click here. You will need Adobe Acrobat reader installed on your PC. If you do not have this viewer, you may download the free Acrobat Viewer from Adobe.

To register on-line please go to: www.stfm.org/behavioralscienceconf

Or for a registration form, please click here.

For registration information, please contact:
Priscilla Noland
STFM
Phone: 800-274-2237 x5410
Fax: 913-906-6096
Email: pnoland@stfm.org

Hotel Reservations
The Holiday Inn City Centre Hotel; 300 East Ohio Street; Chicago, IL; 312-787-6100, is now sold out. Please call A Room With A View for hotel overflow assistance at 800-780-4343. They will secure the lowest available rate within walking distance to the Holiday Inn hotel. This is a FREE SERVICE for all STFM attendees.

Questions - Contact
Mary Ellen Radjenovich, Conference Coordinator, at 414-456-8189 or meradjen@mcw.edu, or Vicki Straub, PhD, program chair, at straubv@health.missouri.edu