Fall 1999

12th Annual SFFPR Bike Tour

The Twelfth Annual Sioux Falls Family Practice Residency (SFFPR) Bike Tour, one aspect of the Program’s efforts to keep people exposed to, and aware of, rural communities, will be traveling through southeastern South Dakota September 17-19. Overnight stops will be at Vermillion, Yankton, and Freeman. A particular highlight for the 1999 tour will be a stop in Scotland, including time to allow bikers to take a break from pedaling and perhaps exercise other muscles in an effort to toss the caber or otherwise participate in Scotland, South Dakota’s Second Annual Scottish Highlands Festival.

The tour continues to enjoy generous and enthusiastic support of residency program sponsors: Avera McKennan and Sioux Valley Hospital and Health Systems, as well as support from communities visited along the way.

The tour in the past has provided an excellent opportunity for resident physicians to become aware of health care facilities outside of Sioux Falls. This has the immediate practical value of allowing residents to understand local health care system capabilities as they care for out-of-town patients while on the Center for Family Medicine In-Patient Team, and allows them to visit communities that could become potential practice sites upon graduation.

If you or your community would like to participate in the 2000 Bike Tour, contact tour organizer, Dave Brechtelsbauer, MD at the Residency.

 Clinical Teaching Award Presented

 Jim Clem, Pharm. D. of Sioux Valley Hospital, was presented with the 1999 Sioux Falls Family Practice Residency Clinical Teaching Award. This award is presented annually to a clinical faculty member who, for three of more years has demonstrated support for the program. Both residents and full-time faculty vote based on resident evaluations and personal observations. This person shows appreciation of the knowledge a family physician needs as well as demonstrating clinical expertise in a field of medicine. Dr. Clem received a personalized plaque and his name will also be engraved on a permanent plaque displayed at the Center for Family Medicine.