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Provincetown
Room
Marriott Copley Hotel
Boston, Massachusetts
November
11, 2000
4:00 p.m. -
6:30 p.m.
MINUTES
Participants:
Bob Harmon (Chair),
Stephanie Zaza
(Vice Chair), Neal Kohatsu, Dorry Lane,
Perrianne Lurie, John Poundstone, Douglas
Lloyd, Gary Goldbaum, Mike Parkinson,
Jonathan Fielding, Joel Nitzkin, Hugh
Tilson, George Anderson,
Jud Richland
, Mike Barry, Jessica Cafarella.
Bob Harmon welcomed
participants and led introductions.
The minutes from the March 2000
Committee meeting were approved.
Committee Affairs
PMR Funding Task
Force Report
Gary Goldbaum
reported on the activities of the
Preventive Medicine Residency Funding Task
Force.
He discussed the written report
produced by the Task Force for
presentation to the
ACPM
Board and the strategies contained in the
report for increasing residency funding
levels.
Committee members expressed support
for the work of the Task Force and the
report’s recommendations, and they
offered several specific comments on the
text.
The Committee also discussed
opportunities to link with initiatives
aimed at defining public health
competencies and quantifying the public
health workforce.
Open Policy Forum
Stephanie Zaza
described plans for the Open Policy Forum
at Preventive Medicine 2001, and noted
that the Policy Committee will meet twice
at PM 2001 in addition to the Open Forum.
Committee members discussed how
best to get more
ACPM
members involved in the College's policy
setting process and how best to cover
multiple policy issues at the Open Policy
Forum.
The Committee urged
ACPM
to make available at the Forum copies of
all resolutions submitted.
Balanced Scorecard
Bob Harmon described
ACPM
’s effort to establish an organization
performance measurement system and report
on progress to the membership.
The Committee raised some specific
measures that will fall under the Policy
Committee.
The Committee also discussed an
implementation strategy for tracking
indicators over several years and urged
ACPM
to draw upon existing data sources to the
extent possible.
New Policy Web
Site
Mike Barry described
plans for revising the policy section of
ACPM
's website.
The Policy site will contain a
"What's New" section with
preventive medicine news, an advocacy
center that assists members in writing to
Congress on preventive medicine issues,
and links to articles on
ACPM
policy.
The site also will feature sections
on the
ACPM
Policy Statements,
ACPM
Resolutions, the Policy Committee, the
Prevention Practice Committee, Preventive
Medicine in the American Medical
Association, and Coalitions in which
ACPM
participates.
One Committee member
expressed the desire to enhance the
interactive nature of the site so members
could, for example, submit resolutions
online, provide comments and evaluations
of products to
ACPM
, etc.
Policy Priority
Areas
ACPM
staff presented results of a policy
prioritization process among Policy
Committee members undertaken via e-mail in
advance of the meeting.
Top policy priorities included:
preventive medicine residency funding (52
votes); promotion of healthy living,
including obesity prevention, nutrition,
fitness, and exercise (51 votes); tobacco
prevention and control (31); coverage of
preventive services (29); job market for
preventive medicine physicians (28); and
universal access to healthcare/funding for
public health programming for the
medically indigent (27).
The Committee agreed
that
ACPM
should establish to sets of priority
issues: 1) top priority issues on which
ACPM
would be proactive leaders (e.g.,
establish a subcommittee; write letters to
Congress; organize meetings; attend
conferences, organizational Hill visits,
and briefings; collaborate with other
organizations, etc.); and 2) issues that
ACPM
would keep on its radar, conduct
environmental scanning, and act when
opportunities arise to make an impact
(e.g., sign-on to letters written by other
organizations, track legislation,
participate in select coalition meetings,
Hill visits, etc.)
The Committee
suggested seeking input from the whole
membership before setting
ACPM
policy priorities, rather than just from
the Policy Committee.
The Committee recommended that
ACPM
do this by sharing policy setting criteria
with the membership through
ACPM
News or
ACPM
Headlines.
The Committee agreed
that increasing preventive medicine
residency funding would remain the top
policy priority for 2001 but did not
determine any other policy priorities.
Resolutions
Joel Nitzkin
presented five resolutions geared toward
strengthening the preventive medicine job
market.
1)
Administration as
“Practice of Medicine.”
The Resolution was passed
as submitted for recommendation to the
Board.
2)
Job Market Initiative.
The Resolution was amended as
follows: the sixth resolve was struck, and
the Committee agreed to soften the wording
of the first resolve by promoting the
benefit of what preventive medicine
physicians can do versus pitting them
against other physicians.
The amended version was passed for
recommendation to the Board.
3)
Postgraduate
Fellowships.
The Resolution was passed as
submitted to the Board.
4)
GPM
/PH Physicians as Directors of
Public Health Agencies.
The Resolution was passed to the
Board with an amendment to use
“residency-trained” rather than
“Board eligible” throughout.
5)
Informal Sub-Specialty
Structure for
GPM
/PH.
The fifth resolution failed for
lack of a second.
The resolution
drafted by Kelly Woodward on the
ACPM
Policy Process was referred to a future
meeting.
The meeting was
adjourned at
6:44 p.m.
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