Typically, six of the faculty will teach at each course. Unlike other board review courses, use of 10-20 faculty has been avoided. This provides a course that is tightly orchestrated and conducted exclusively by family practice faculty known to be energetic and effective educators.
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Bob Lorinser, MD
Dr. Lorinser is the former Assistant Director of the Family Medicine Residency Program at Marquette General Hospital (MI), where he also served as a hospitalist. He also served as the Associate Director of the Upper Peninsula Health Plan. As a reflection of his abilities and commitment to the education of family physicians, Dr. Lorinser was named Educator of the Year by the Michigan Academy of Family Practice in 2003. He is currently working as a Regional Medical Officer, Foreign Service, Department of State. |
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Gary Ferenchick, MD, MS
Dr. Ferenchick is a generalist faculty member at Michigan State University. He has been consistently included in the Best Doctors in America since 2004. He has been the recipient of 10 awards for excellence in teaching from graduating students at Michigan State, a national award for scholarship in medical education from the Society of General Internal Medicine, and the Laureat Award from the Michigan ACP. He has served as a question writer for the National Board of Medical Examiners and as an associate editor for Board Basics: Essential facts and strategies for passing the medicine certification exam. He is a senior associate editor for Essential Evidence Plus and is a co-author of Teaching in your office: A guide to instructing medical students and residents. He developed and edits Just In Time Medicine, an open source web-based e-text for use in education. He has been a regular lecturer at the Family Practice/Internal Medicine courses sponsored by the Center for Medical Education, and is a regular reviewer and commentator for the Primary Care Medical Abstracts. |
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Edward Jackson, MD
Dr. Jackson is the Director of the Family Practice Residency at the Synergy Medical Education Alliance in Saginaw, MI. Dr. Jackson's passion for teaching was recognized when he became the recipient of the Outstanding Community Faculty Award for 1999 at Michigan State University. He also was recognized as the Family Physician Educator of the year by the Michigan Academy of Family Practice, 2009. He is a clinical professor of Family Medicine at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. Dr. Jackson is a past president of the Michigan Academy of Family Physicians and Chair of its Continuing Medical Education and Accreditation Committee. |
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Herbert L. Muncie, Jr., MD
Dr. Muncie is Professor of Family Medicine and Director of Student Education in the Department of Family Medicine at the LSU School of Medicine - New Orleans. He was previously the Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine and was elected into the AOA Honor Society as a faculty member while at the University of Maryland. He received the Resident Teaching Award in 2010 from the LSU - Kenner Family Practice Residency. He received a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Geriatrics in 1992. He has published almost 50 papers with the most recent being the diagnosis and treatment of RSV infections in children (American Family Physician Jan 2011) and oral contraceptive use (Journal of Family Practice Feb 2011). |
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Randy Pearson, MD
Dr. Pearson has been a member of the MSU Family Practice faculty for 18 years and is the former residency director of the St. Lawrence Family Practice Residency in Lansing, Michigan. With a particular interest in sports medicine, Dr. Pearson has been the head team physician for the MSU football team for the last 17 years and a member of the 1999 World University Games medical staff. He is the Director of the MSU Sports Medicine Fellowship and Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education for Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. |
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Susan Radecky, MD
Dr. Radecky was Director of the MSU Affiliated Family Practice Residency in Grand Rapids, MI from 1987-2006. During that time she was involved with the development of the NFMBR Course. Her current work involves providing care to those without resources, both in Grand Rapids and throughout the world. She and her husband spend 4-5 months each year at mission hospitals providing hospital and clinical care to those in the majority world. So far, they have spent time in Togo, Niger, Cameroon, Zambia, Papua New Guinea, and Bangladesh. This work continues to demonstrate to her the power and significance of public health, primary health care and the strength of Family Medicine education. |
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Gregg VandeKieft, MD
After serving as a full-spectrum family physician in rural Washington, Dr. VandeKieft joined the faculty at the MSU Department of Family Practice and later returned to the Pacific Northwest to join the Family Medicine Residency faculty at Providence St. Peter Hospital Program in Olympia, WA. He holds a Certificate of Added Qualification in Hospice and Palliative Medicine, and is Medical Director for the St. Peter Hospital Palliative Care Program and for Providence Hospice. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. VandeKieft has received a variety of teaching awards including Michigan State University's Teacher-Scholar Award and St. Peter Family Medicine's Role Model in Family Medicine Award. |
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Andrea Wendling, MD
Dr. Wendling is currently a rural family physician in Northern Michigan and is a Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. She was previously an Assistant Director of the Family Medicine Residency Program in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and has received many teaching awards including the Distinguished Faculty Award in 2004 and the American Academy of Family Physician's Pfizer Teacher Development Award in 2000. Dr. Wendling has been on the editorial board for the Family Medicine journal since 2004 and has spoken nationally and published in the areas of resident evaluation and rural health. |
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