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More July Residency NewsHighlights from 3 events that took place during the new interns orientation month.Welcome lunch - all employed by the residency gathered to celebrate the arrival of the new intern class. Lunch was provided and the current PGY 2's presented the interns with a "survival bag". Skills Workshop - 6 stations were set up with each intern rotating through the stations to test their skills. Breast Exam, X-Ray Interpretation, Pelvic Exam, Suturing, OMT and EKG Interpretation. United Way Agency Fair - The United Way Agencies of Androscoggin County set up display booths, in our conference room, giving new interns and all residents, staff and faculty an opportunity to learn more about the agencies that many of our patients utilize. 08/10/2010 
July Residency NewsThe National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) recognizes top quality practices and provides recognition when standards are met. Kathy Morin has been working hard on our application for recognition as a Patient Centered Medical Home. We just found out we were awarded a Level 3 designation! This is the highest recognition they give.Here is their definition: The Patient Centered Medical Home is a health care setting that facilitates partnerships between individual patients, and their personal physicians, and when appropriate, the patient’s family. Care is facilitated by registries, information technology, health information exchange and other means to assure that patients get the indicated care when and where they need and want it in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner. Dr. Bethany Picker has been selected to be a 2010-2011 Hanley Health Leadership Development Fellow. The fellowship is very competitive and is co-sponsored by the Hanley Center for Health Leadership and the Institute for Civic Leadership. Dr. Bethany Picker has joined the Hands and Voices of Maine board (a group committed to supporting families affected by hearing loss regardless of communication style and mode). Dr. Bethany Picker has joined the Maine Newborn Hearing Screen Program board. 08/10/2010
June Residency NewsBingham Scholars arrive in Lewiston and RumfordLiz Ferro, a new MSII from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, will be spending her 5-6 weeks at Swift River Family Health Center and the Dixfield Elsmore Family Health Center, both associated with Rumford Hospital (site of our Rural Track residency). In addition to shadowing the rural track faculty and residents, she will be helping the Swift River site launch a group medical visits program for people with diabetes in their practice. Sara Huang, a new MSII from Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, will be spending her time with the CMMC FMR in Lewiston. In addition to shadowing family physicians at work, she will be completing a research project studying the use of supplements in our pregnant patients at the FMC. 30th Graduation Ceremony at CMMC It's official - Drs. Steve Adams, Jen Dressel, Neelima Ganta, Michael Gravatt, Bina Maharjan, Laurel Schwingel and Terry Ann Scriven received their diplomas on Fri, 6/25 at the formal graduation ceremony held at the CMMC Conference Center. The 2010 graduating class gave 4 awards: Special Recognition Award to Andrew Thornton, MD, a nephrologist who has been an especially good eduator; Preceptor of the Year award to Trisha Gushue, DO; Nurse of the Year Award to Ashley Breton, MA; and the most prestigious award (Bruce Johnson Teacher of the Year) to Bethany Picker, MD, a faculty member and Medical Director of our FMC. Two days before the "official" graduation, we held our "family" graduation dinner at Spring Meadows Country Club in Gray. This is a time for us to reminisce about our time with the graduating class and bestow gifts to them. It is also the time when the faculty gets to drag out their acting skills for a graduating class skit that is one spoof after another. A good time was had by all! Where did our 2010 graduates "land"? Dr. Adams - Surface Creek FP, Delta Colorado Dr. Dressel - Lunenburg FP, Lunenburg, Massachusetts Dr. Ganta - Plans to practice near Austin, Texas Dr. Gravatt - Plans to practice in NorthEastern Washington State Dr. Mahajarn - Good Samaritan Hospital, Watertown, New York Dr. Schwingel - OMM Fellowship @ UNECOM, Biddeford, Maine Dr. Scriven - Plans to practice in Portland, Maine 07/08/2010
Updated 6/21/2010New Salaries for Residents - Make sure to check out our newly upgraded salaries on our Benefits page!06/22/2010
Welcome Incoming Intern Class - 2010
1st Row - Aila dela Cruz MD, Emily Fontaine, MD 2nd Row Adam Duquette DO, Todd Kitchens, DO 3rd Row Michael Johns MD, Shayne Lemke, DO 4th Row Gonzalo Ruiz, MD LARGE VERSION The CMMC Family Medicine Residency is pleased to announce a very successful 2010 recruiting season. Congratulations to all involved for their outstanding efforts. All seven who matched with our Program were among the top ten on our rank list! 04/16/2010
4th Annual International Medicine ConferenceOctober 13, 2009This year's conference was highlighted by presentations by Dr Stephen Sokol on Malaria and Malnutrition, based on his many years of medical work in refugee camps and war zones; Travel Medicine and Associated Diseases by our co-chief resident Bina Maharjan, MD associated with her rotation at the CIWEC Travel Medicine Center in her hometown of Kathmandu, Nepal; our faculty member Dr Geoffrey Carden speaking on Maternity Care in Guatemala and Nepal; our faculty member Dr Raj Woolever presenting on FM Residency to Residency Links between CMMC of Herbertpur Christian Hospital in Northern India; and ending the day with the documentary film "A Walk to Beautiful" regarding treatment success of obstetrical fistulas in Ethiopia.We are now preparing for the spring of 2010 5th Annual Wilderness Medicine Conference. For more information please contact: Bruce Kennney, DO Central Maine Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Faculty 76 High St, Lewiston, Me 04240 ph# 207-795-2818 fax # 207-795-2190 email kenneyb@cmhc.org 10/14/2009
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