YDM Newsletter: Polaris - Dec 2022
Over the last six months, Family Medicine Early Career Physicians, Residents and Medical Students in our Polaris region have continued to immerse themselves into full scope family practice, while continuing to support their patients, colleagues and local/broader communities. Our members continue to partake in diverse initiatives and play various leadership roles, in addition to their clinical responsibilities, across our region. Our Polaris Chair, Rohini Pasricha, shared her insights on increasing family medicine engagement and recruitment as a panelist speaker at the Family Medicine Forum 2022 in Toronto, Canada. Our USA colleagues had a successful pre-conference global health summit prior to FMX 2022 held in Washington D.C. in September 2022. As well, they continue to work hard in preparing a quarterly global health webinar series that will be available for everyone to view.
To illustrate the broad scope of clinical practice in which our physicians, residents, and medical students work and learn, we have continued to develop our spotlight of the month campaign using our social media platforms (Instagram and Facebook: @woncapolaris), highlighting the clinical and non-clinical activities of one individual in our region each month. As well, we have developed a “debunking myths in family medicine” campaign to help increase awareness on what the field of family medicine entails. Our hope is to break down common misconceptions and broaden our understanding of what family medicine has to offer.
Our Polaris executive team has also continued to develop quarterly newsletters that highlight relevant topics in family medicine. Our most recent issue was released in December 2022 and focuses on the theme of migrant health. In the coming year, we will be preparing a mentorship program for our Polaris members that allows for mentors and mentees to engage in “coffee-chat” conversations with one another and exchange experiences, interests, and learn from one another.
Congratulations Brunèe Dorsett
Our very own Brunèe Dorsett (Vice President of WONCA Polaris and Caribbean representative) has been selected to serve as the YDM representative on the WONCA Working Party on Education. Brunèe brings a range of leadership skills and expertise to this role, previously serving as her school’s Family Medicine Chief Resident, helping to develop weekly academic resident sessions, and initiating a resident mentorship program for her school’s family medicine residency program. We congratulate her and wish her all the best as she takes on this new role!