The College of Family Physicians of Canada History and Narrative Committee invites you to submit family medicine stories to be considered for the 2008 Mimi Divinsky Awards for History and Narrative in Family Medicine, which recognize the best narrative accounts of experiences in family medicine.

Part of a unique project that seeks to record our members’ stories for fu­ture practitioners, the awards will be presented at the 2008 Family Medicine Forum (FMF) being held in Toronto in November. Each award includes travel costs and free registration for attendance at all FMF proceedings. 

Winning stories, as well as a selection of others, will be published in the special story issue of Canadian Family Physician. Stories will also be included in the College’s History and Narrative database, an exciting new initiative that will provide a historical resource for future practitioners.

Click here [10] for ad­ditional information, then scroll down to link to the Mimi Divinsky Awards for History and Narrative in Family Medicine. For more information, contact Kiki Ziten, Honours and Awards Program manager, at 1 800 387-6197, ext. 432, or e-mail kziten@cfpc.ca [11].

—Ruth Elwood Martin, MD
Vancouver

Dr Divinsky’s obituary appears on page 266 of the June issue of the BCMJ.