News from the 2008 C. Frank Webber Lectureship

Almost 350 physicians, residents and students gathered at the Hilton Austin Airport to attend this year’s C. Frank Webber Lectureship and Interim Session March 14-15, 2008. The busy weekend was filled with CME lectures; and committee, commission and section meetings.

CME topics mirrored the full scope of issues facing practicing family physicians, ranging from lectures on identifying and treating metabolic syndrome to secondary stroke prevention, plus an ethics lecture on what to do when you receive a letter from the Texas Medical Board.

TAFP hosted the Texas Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Students Saturday, which combined lectures specifically tailored for future family physicians with an interactive resident-led procedures fair. Morning lecture topics concentrated on the business of family medicine and the skills needed to sustain the practice. That afternoon, students and residents switched gears as residency programs from around Texas showed students the full scope of family medicine through hands-on procedure demonstrations. Students practiced simulations of joint injections, ultrasounds, perineal repairs, and others.

The TAFP Board of Directors meeting concluded the weekend of business meetings as board members heard reports and recommendations from all of TAFP’s committees, commissions and sections. Among the actions taken by the Board were decisions to approve a TAFP Legislative Leadership conference for TAFP members in the fall, the presentation of a new slate of TAFP officers and support the TAFP service project Physicians with Heart benefiting the San Jose Clinic in Houston.

Mark your calendars now to join TAFP for the 2009 C. Frank Webber Lectureship at the Hilton Austin Airport March 13, 2009. Also plan to join TAFP for its largest symposium, the 59th Annual Session and Scientific Assembly, July 16-20, 2008 at the Westin Galleria hotel in Houston. In the fall, TAFP will host the 2008 Primary Care Summit Oct. 17-19 at the Westin Oaks hotel in Houston.

The planning committee and staff worked hard to put together the C. Frank Webber CME lectures and are continually looking for ways to make the conference better for you. Please send any suggestions for this and future conferences to Director of Education Anna Jenkins at ajenkins@tafp.org.