Family Medicine Student Interest Group

FaMSIG

Your Friendly Family Medicine Student Interest Group

The Family Medicine Student Interest Group (FaMSIG) is a group of McGill students interested in promoting Family Medicine amongst their peers. Our goals include:

Exposing medical students to a wide variety of Family Medicine role models
Demonstrating the diversity of Family Medicine
Supporting students who are interested in Family Medicine
Educating medical students about Family Medicine training and careers
Fostering mentorship between family physicians and medical students
Fostering mentorship between upper- and lower-year medical students
Having fun!

FaMSIG wants you! Get involved!

News

FaMSIG Skills Day

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Posted by laura.arul on Saturday, March 24, 2012 - 13:17

Attention Med-1s and Med-2s!

FaMSIG is organizing a skills day on April 15, 2012 at 12 noon. Skills that will be practiced include suturing, casting, labour and delivery, neurological exam, imaging, and MSK. Snacks will be provided!

If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to laura.arul@mail.mcgill.ca by April 5th, spaces are limited.

We also ask that a 5$ deposit be given, it will be returned to you the day of the event. Please give your deposit to Patrick Moynihan if you are a Med-1, and Emilie Gagnon if you are in Med-2.

Thanks!
The FaMSIG team

Post-Match Talk: Monday March 12

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Posted by laura.arul on Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 07:20

Interested in potentially applying to family med residency programs?

Med 4s who have recently matched to family will be available to answer all your questions about CaRMS, electives, PGY-3 programs, the different family med training programs and anything else you might want to know. They've applied to UBC, McMaster, U of T, U of Ottawa, McGill (Gatineau and Montreal), and Dal, and have varied interests such as women's health, public health, and emergency medicine.

The talk will take place Monday March 12 at 6 pm at Thomson House (downstairs). Dinner will be provided!

How to manage a medical practice - Dr. Howard Cohen

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Posted by eve-lynne.kyle on Sunday, February 19, 2012 - 14:30

“How to manage a medical practice” Dr. Howard Cohen + FREE Thai dinner! March 1st

So you know all about leasing an office, hiring, billing, partnerships, and insurance for your medical practice once you finish Med School, right??

For all of us non-MD/MBA’s these decisions can seem overwhelming. On March 1st 6:00pm at the Annex, Dr. Howard Cohen will be elucidating all the mysteries of setting up and running a medical practice. Basically, the type of stuff that we don’t learn in class. We can all benefit from this information, in any specialty! In summary: