Francophone participation at Family Medicine Forum

This letter is in response to Dr Ladouceur’s editorial.¹ For a long time, I have felt saddened by, and sometimes even angry at, the Family Medicine Forum Committee for the way space is allocated to French presentations. For years, I have made the effort to contribute presentations in French, sometimes while also contributing additional presentations in English, depending on the year. My English presentations were usually assigned to large rooms with simultaneous interpretation, while my French presentations—sometimes covering similar topics, and which should have generated the same level of interest—were assigned to locations that were often difficult to find. French-language topics are rarely integrated into long plenary sessions, even though they would be easy to integrate. So yes, after getting tired of putting in the effort and despite my participation at Family Medicine Forum, I stopped submitting abstracts. Let me know if the committee decides to change its attitude!

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