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Daily Conferences

Conferences are held five days a week specifically for the residents and planned by Dr. Kathleen Sweeney with resident input.  They occur in the Blair Room in the Altoona Hospital Outpatient Center and include family practice rounds, journal club, radiology conference, OB conference by family practice faculty, and a variety of internal medicine, pediatrics, and gynecology topics. We also have talks on practice management every other month. Our speakers are drawn from the staff of the Altoona Hospital, guest CME speakers, family practice residency faculty, and guest physicians from outside the area. Here is an example of our noon conference schedule from 2001. 

Practice Based Small Group Learning

Altoona Family Physicians is starting a new lunch conference series called “Practice Based Small Group Learning”.  This is a Canadian program designed to help physicians enhance their knowledge and integrate new information into their practices.  Rather than a traditional didactic lecture format, the sessions focus on discussion of modules composed of authentic cases and evidence-based information.  The participants are encouraged to bring their own cases to discuss.  The goal of the program is “to facilitate the transition from learning as part of a formal training program, to a commitment to self-directed CME,” which will assist our graduates throughout their professional careers.  Altoona Family Physicians has been selected as one of very few US residency programs to offer this excellent program, so we are very proud to be able to extend this opportunity to our residents.  For more information, sample modules and patient handouts please visit The Foundation for Medical Practice Education.  

Hospital CME

Altoona Hospital offers periodic CME lectures by local and national experts.