Family Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine

We are so delighted to share with you the wonderful news that Dr. Deb Erlich has selected as the 2019-2020 winner of the Milton O. M30 and Natalie V. Zucker Clinical Teaching Prize for Innovation in Medical Education.

She was elected based on her work in the Family Medicine Clerkship and her innovative use of technology to ensure excellence in education in the face of the Covid pandemic. She has worked with the students, the community preceptors, and her Family Medicine Clerkship team to re-invent the Family Medicine Clerkship during the last six months, making sure that the highest standards of education are maintained in the Department of Family Medicine.

Five Family physicians have received this award over the last 18 years.

Congratulations, Dr. Erlich!

Congratulations Dr. Parra Tomkins and Dr. Rachel Vogel!

Dr. Tomkins is the 2019 Robert Wesselhoeft, III Teaching Award recipient, awarded annually to a teacher of Family Medicine who has demonstrated service, integrity and excellence in teaching.

Dr. Vogel received the Ylisabyth S. Bradshaw Teaching Award, awarded annually to a teacher of Family Medicine who has demonstrated compassion, mentorship and excellence in teaching.”

Both were presented their awards at the Primary Care Precepting XXI faculty development conference on April 26, 2019. Both awards are richly deserved as Dr. Tomkins and Dr. Vogel have both been dedicated, talented, and generous educators for over a decade.

Tufts S3 Program on Twitter “Welcome to the Class of 2022! Interested in care of underserved communities? Join us for an information session next Tuesday 8/14 at noon in Sackler 316!”

Congratulations, Dr. Gravel!

Rewarding physician performance that produces better patient outcomes is a good idea but we need to make sure there is evidence that we are really helping patients.

Co-authored by Dr Ron Adler, Dr Courtney Scanlon (former TUSM student and current Tufts FM resident), Sami Hamdan (M19), and Dr Wayne Altman, Jaharis Family Chair of Family Medicine.

10 Criteria of appropriate quality measures developed through a collaboration of Care That Matters (Co-founded by Drs Adler & Altman) and Dynamed Plus.

Quality Measures: How to Get Them Right Pay-for-performance programs have produced disappointing results. Fewer and more appropriate, evidence-based quality measures could help.

Tufts Family Medicine is incredibly proud of Dr. Keith Nokes, FM faculty and Director of our Tufts Student Service Scholars (TS3) program for receiving the Excellence in Teaching Award selected by the TUSM senior class.

We're also proud of our TS3 and Family Medicine graduating students who were presented with their awards (see below). Congratulations to all!

William Dameshek Award In Internal Medicine
Lauren Malishchak (TS3)

Martin J. Memorial Prize in Surgery
Caroline Melhado (TS3)

Professor Ernest Grable, MD Award
Marianne Papageorge (TS3)

John T. Harrington, MD Award
Lauren Malishchak (TS3)

Dr. Ruth Marguerite Easterling Award
Ryan Walker (TS3 & FM)

American Medical Women's Association Glasgow-Rubin Academic Achievement Certificates
Caroline Melhado (TS3)
Lauren Malishchak (TS3)

Massachusetts Medical Society Scholars Awards
Eli Madden (TS3)
Lauren Malishchak (TS3)

AOA
Rebecca Joseph (TS3 & FM)
Lauren Malishchak (TS3)
Jenny McManus (TS3)
Caroline Melhado (TS3)

Honos Civicus Society
Kimberly Dao (FM)
Jackie Hodges (TS3)
Alice Kaufman (TS3 & FM)
Eli Madden (TS3)
Lauren Malishchak (TS3)
Caroline Melhado (TS3)
Ryan Walker (TS3 & FM)
Alyssa Wohl (TS3)

Congratulations, Dr. Chaoui!

Massachusetts Medical Society: Alain A. Chaoui, M.D. elected President of the Massachusetts Medical Society WALTHAM - Alain A. Chaoui, M.D., a Boxford resident and primary care physician and president with Congenial Healthcare, LLC, a private practice group with multiple sites on the North Shore, has been elected president of the Massachusetts Medical Society at the organization’s annual meeting April 2...

Congratulations to our Family Medicine family who took home awards at Tufts annual awards night! Lanie Hill, M17, was given the Dr. Toby Wesselhoeft Family Medicine Award. Lanie is also part of our inaugural Tufts Student Service Scholars Program class of 2017.
Dr. Clinton Pong was given the Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching!
A big congrats to our Family Medicine award winners.

Congratulations to Dr. Keith Nokes!! He has been selected as this year's recipient of the Tisch College of Civic Life and Tufts University School of Medicine Community Service Learning Faculty Award. This award was established to honor a faculty member who demonstrates outstanding commitment to civic engagement in medical education. Congrats, Keith!

Congratulations to our Family Physicians for their awards at the 2017 Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians Annual Meeting & Spring Refresher!
Dr. Kelly Holland: 2017 Family Physician of the Year
Dr. Cara Marshall: 2017 Family Medicine Educator of the Year
Dr. Len Finn: 2017 Preceptor Hall of Fame

Happy Match Day!

25 Tufts students begin their training in Family Medicine this June. These 25 students included 3 Maine Track students and 3 of the 8 graduating Tufts Students Service Scholars.
In the last six years, 139 Tufts students have matched in FM.
Tufts-affiliated residencies matched 7 of our students with 2 at Tufts/CHA, 2 at Lawrence, and 3 at MMC! Congratulations to the Class of 2017!

Our friend and colleague, Kelly Holland, is an extraordinary family physician and human being.
"Everybody deserves to have a treatable disease treated and a preventable disease prevented."

Night sweats, bloody cough — and a diagnosis that turned a doctor into an activist Dr. Kelly Holland's bout with tuberculosis was a public health nightmare for his town. It also turned him into an activist, fighting for more TB funding.