The 2019 DFCM Faculty Awards Event & Inaugural International Family Medicine Lecture
Join your fellow colleagues on Thursday, June 20 from 5:30 to 9:00 PM at the Hart House Great Hall as we celebrate the DFCM award winners, external award winners, welcome new faculty members and congratulate junior and senior promotions. We will also be joined by Dr. Iona Heath who will deliver the inaugural DFCM International Family Medicine Lecture.
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DFCM 50th Anniversary Inaugural International Family Medicine Lecture
In celebration of our 50th Anniversary, we have created the DFCM 50th Anniversary International Family Medicine Lecture which will be held annually and delivered by a global leader in our discipline. This year's inaugural lecture will be presented by international family medicine orator Dr. Iona Heath.
Lecture Title: Family Medicine - Nuturing Relationships in a Hyperconnected World
Relationships are fundamental to human existence and human beings seek to create enduring and trusting relationships in all spheres of life, not least within healthcare, and particularly, within family practice where, in the face of the terrors and uncertainties of illness, the possibility of serial encounters over time can be used to foster continuity of care within an ongoing and mutually trusting relationship. Yet everywhere in our globalised and hyperconnected world, these ongoing relationships are threatened by fragmentation and the myth of certainty.
Retired inner city general practitioner in Kentish Town in London (1975-2010). Member at Large of the WONCA world executive (2007–2013). Past President of the UK Royal College of General Practitioners (2009-2012).
Iona Heath has written regularly for the British Medical Journal and has contributed essays to many other medical journals across the world. She has been particularly interested to explore the nature of general practice, the importance of medical generalism, issues of justice and liberty in relation to health care, the corrosive influence of the medical industrial complex and the commercialisation of medicine, and the challenges posed by disease-mongering, the care of the dying, and violence within families.