7 October 2009

Colorado Section of ACOG:

Thanks to all of you who made the trip up to Boulder for our last meeting.  It is always fun to see some of the physicians who don’t usually make it to the meetings in Denver.

Dr Nanette Santoro was introduced as the new Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at University of Colorado Denver.

Dr. Droegemueller has not changed since I first met him during my training.  He looks and sounds the same as he did then. I’m not sure that I like people who never appear to age.   I did, however, learn that those were not alligator shoes that he was wearing.  His talk was well received as he presented his ideas about the future of residency training.  There were several points that he made which I thought were useful to me.

*We don’t do a good job of exposing medical students to career choices before we         expect them to pick a residency program.

*Residents coming out of training are looking for a different style of practice than those who came out in the past.

*Physicians who are leaving practice in the future will have a much larger hand held knowledge base to work with when treating patients.

*Resident physicians should have an indivilized training program that will allow them to pick an area of the specialty.  Learning should be more self-directed.

Save The Dates:

2 Nov 09 – CGOS Meeting at DU

4 Nov 09 – Signature Chefs Table for March of Dimes ($150/person)

19 & 20 Nov. 09 – Conference – Medical Legal Issues in Obstetrics Practice.  CGOS Members can get a 20% discount at checkout.  Use the Code:  LEAF

www.medical-legal.org

7 Dec.09 – December Meeting- Bring your significant others and children to the Space Odyssey at the Museum of Nature and Science – 1830 to 2230 hrs

14-19 Feb 2010 – Vail Obstetrics and Gynecology Conference (36^th year)

www.regonline.com/obgyn2010

15, 16 &17 Oct 2010 District VIII Annual Clinical Meeting – Maui, Hawaii

Mentors:

ACOG has a new award for mentors of Young Physicians or Junior Fellows in practice.   If you are a Young Physician or Junior Fellow who has been mentored by someone special, I would encourage you to nominate them for this award. You can get more information from the ACOG website

We also have medical students in the community who need mentors. This usually doesn’t take a lot of time, and it is a great way to expose students to our Specialty.  I would encourage you to consider having a student in your office.

Contact information:

University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine – Foundations of Doctoring 

(303-724-6421) fax – (303 724 1629) www.uchsc.edu/sm/FDC/-24k-  

e-mail - Foundations.Doctoring @UCDenver.edu

Rocky Vista University - College of Osteopathic Medicine – Matthew B. Harrison, D.O.

(720-875-2838)       mharrison@rockyvistauniversity.org

EAGeR Study

The EAGeR Study is still seeking women between the ages of 18-40 who have had a pregnancy loss in the past and are considering a pregnancy again.  (303-724-3525) eager.trial@ucdenver.edu

Running for Office?

ACOG will have a 2010 Inaugural Candidate Workshop- Saturday - 27 Feb 2010

This will proceed the Congressional Leadership Conference 28 Feb to 2 Mar 2010

Let me know if you are interested and I can fax you additional information. 

In addition, if you are planning to apply to be on a national ACOG Committee, talk to me or Dr. Jerry Kopleman so that we can support your application.

FYI

The next meeting will be at DU.  Make sure you check on the parking and university maps for directions.

Talks given at the university and at our meeting will be on line for those of you who cannot make the meeting.

Make sure that we have all of your e-mail addresses where you want us to send information.  We are trying to go completely electronic by 31 December 2009.  Please let us know if you need to receive a paper copy.

Let me know if you have any ideas how to increase attendance at the meeting and participation in CGOS.  I would like to hear from those of you who do not normally attend.  What can we do to encourage your participation?     If you are planning to attend, invite some to go with you.

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The talks given at the University and at the CGOS meetings will be on line for those of you who cannot make the meetings.  Go to - coursecast.net   - The talks will be there for one month.

Oh Yes – the comment about the shoes - From Dr. Droegemueller’s talk: You know that you are getting old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes before they realize that you are bare-foot.

Hope to see you at the meeting!

Stephen Stoll

303-773-8333

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