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Cure Conference for Family Medicine Residents
A Series of Case Presentations, Lectures and Discussions to Improve Family Medicine Practice Within Complex Systems of Care

CURE stands for Coordinated / Core Units in Residency Education. It is a series of case conferences and lectures for family medicine residents by family medicine physicians and faculty. CURE Conferences resulted from the department’s need to strengthen core competencies required by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Participants in CURE Conferences will gain skills in professionalism, demonstrate competence in evidence-based approaches to patient care, and acquire skills to work within and transform health care systems.

The CURE Conference Series is required for our Family Medicine residents. It is held at the Curative Building in the Family and Community Medicine classroom. All family medicine faculty members and professional staff are invited to attend and participate.

The schedule for CURE conferences is shown in the table below. Special materials are also available for these dates and topics. See the dates and list of materials below the table. Always call to get last minute updates if needed. Heather Lotz (414-456-4622) and Jeff Morzinski PhD (414-456-4985) coordinate the CURE series. You can e-mail Heather at hlotz@mcw.edu

CURE Conference Schedule, 2003-2004

12:30 PM Lunch. 1:00 PM Program begins. 3:30 PM Program ends.

Date

Case Conference Topic

Lecture Topic

Sept 17, 2003

Care of patients with BPH

Systems and evidence based medicine

Oct 15, 2003

 

Diabetes

QI to improve diabetic care

Nov 19, 2003

Genital herpes and STDs

Using information technology to improve health care

Jan 21, 2004

1. Evidence-based update on Osteoporosis

2. Open access Scheduling

Dr. Douglas

Dr. Lyon

Feb 18, 2004

 

Special session on Professionalism

March 17, 2004

 

NO CURE CONFERENCE

 

April 21, 2004

 

1.Care of patients with depression

2. Patient Safety

TBA

May 19, 2004

 

1. Care of migraine headache in Family Medicine

2. Residency Programs present their CURE Projects

--Waukesha: Diabetes & ACE Inhibitors (Douglas & Purdy)

--Racine: Improving Patient Safety Associated with Polypharmacy (DeGroat & Kinnee)

--St. Michael: Diabetic Footcare (Damitz & Olsen)

--Columbia-St. Mary: Diabetic Pneumovax Rates (Lyon & Gagnon)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


CURE Materials

Sept 2003
October 2003
November 2003
January 2004
  • Slide presentation on alcohol / detox
  • Slide presentation on Open Access
February 2004
  • Slide presentation on Professionalism & Scenario Learning

March 2004

  • Slide presentation on Migraine
  • Monograph on Migraine
  • Slide presentation on Patient Safety

April 2004

  • Slide presentation on Depression
  • Monograph on Depression

May 2004

  • Final Reports on Systems-Based Medicine

 

Last modified: May 5, 2004