Although attendance is voluntary, the Dean has been persuasive in encouraging faculty to attend. Catherine Burr, the instructor, is an expert in this area. It was suggested that a two new sections be added to Faculty Development Calendar. The PSC is a committee trying to cut costs. GAC is a committee that in a broad sense is not to develop guidelines but rather to take existing guidelines in clinical care, evaluate them, pick the best guidelines, and disseminate the information in the anticipation that those guidelines would be followed and therefore care would be more efficient and effective.
Guidelines are on common primary and secondary issues.
The committee is at the point of deciding how to disseminate the information and how it might change physician behaviour. GACC sees the five medical schools as one way where this information can be disseminated. GACC will be asking FoMD to participate in a program roll-out of two or three guidelines. There is a MOH fund available as an health initiative program. GACC will be asking what FoMD is able to provide.