This year's EFPCs are hosted by the AMSA chapters and the
administrations of Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine, in
Stratford, NJ (Oct
11 - 13), and Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA (Oct 18 - 20).
Both conferences will include significant information and development
opportunities relevant to premed students, including admissions workshops,
sessions on the MCAT and personal statement, and writing/reflection exercises.
The conferences will also feature clinical skills workshops (including
suturing, heart sounds, and taking a sexual health history); medical school
admissions consultations with medical school admissions officers and pre-health
advisors; advocacy skills workshops with Physicians for Social Responsibility;
and professional skills workshops (including communication, team-building, and
conflict management).
The Empowering Future Physicians Conferences (EFPCs), are
designed to engage premedical and medical students, through the metaphor of a
day-in- the-life of a physician, in the issues that both challenge and inspire
the humanistic commitment to people-centered care. Taking the major
events of a typical day in an academic medical center such as morning and
afternoon rounds, morning report, grand rounds, and consults as points of
reference, the conference programming aims to facilitate the formation of
connections between those events and the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors
exhibited by physicians which may support optimal delivery of care.
