Department of Family Medicine

This month we welcomed our new residents with many activities: orientations, potlucks, barbecues and more! Our goal is for every resident to be the best family physician you can be. The summer also brings great weather, vacations and time to recharge batteries. I am looking forward to two weeks with my family on Charleston Lake!

This year's winners of the CT and Pat Lamont Award for Quality Improvement, Dr. Eddy Malouf, Dr. Flavia Sendi-Mukasa and Dr. Leigh Waters, sent a note of gratitude to Mary Lamont, daughter of the late CT and Pat Lamont. Read Mary's encouraging words.

There are calls to better prepare our residents to engage in effective leadership. We certainly see examples of exceptional leadership among our Chief Residents, like Dr. Elise Azzi, who will be in the running for the CFPC Murray Stalker Award. Leadership in complex adaptive systems (CAS) was the topic at the recent CFPC Forum. As faculty, we all play leadership roles in many different contexts, and understanding and modeling our leadership skills in these systems takes work!