STFM

I'm in Toronto (home of the Blue Jays) for my annual pilgrimage to the STFM meeting.  Toronto is a nice city.  Reminds me of Seattle.  Family medicine educators from all over the world come to the meeting to share ideas, successes and frustrations.  Today was the awards luncheon and I was especially impressed with the acceptance speech of Ellen Beck who was recognized for the work she's done building medical student-run health clinics in San Diego and then creating a fellowship program to help others to create similar clinics in other cities.  The people who are involved in STFM are dedicated, caring, thoughtful .. and just plain nice people.  I'm not saying that other physicians or even other family physicians don't meet this description, but .. as a rule .. the people at STFM are the sort of characters I'd like my kids to be when they grow up ...