See you soon in Providence! | |
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The 2023 Annual Meeting will be held at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, RI from October 13-15, 2023.
What has 118 posters, 84 seminars, 63 lecture discussions, 37 workshops, 29 papers, 20 breakfast discussion tables, 19 research papers, 10 speed presentations, 10 clinical camp tables, and 4 clinical success stories? The FMEC Annual Meeting! Check out the complete meeting schedule.
The FMEC is excited to welcome our 2023 Annual Meeting plenary speakers – Drs. Izzy Lowell, Renee Crichlow, and Manisha Kumar. Read more about them and their talks in our news release.
We broke our record – as of September 18, we will have 93 residency programs represented at the Residency Fair!
|  | We’re excited to announce that Providence’s signature attraction, WaterFire, is happening in the evening on Saturday, October 14, sponsored by Brown University. After the Residency Fair ends, you’ll enjoy seeing the fires in the river and visiting the many vendors and food trucks set up around downtown. | |
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Watch for emails from the FMEC with last-minute conference
details, how to download the app, and more!
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FMEC Healthcare Innovators Network | |
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A favorite event at the FMEC meeting, the Healthcare Innovators Network, will happen all day Friday, October 13 and is open to all – check out the FMEC Healthcare Innovators Network agenda.
The FMEC thanks One Medical for sponsoring the 2023 Healthcare Innovators Network.
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Preparing to Succeed in Practice Sessions
The FMEC is committed to helping medical students, residents and more learn more about practice options, career paths, job searching and interviewing, managing debt, and financing. Residents are encouraged to attend the three Friday afternoon Preparing to Succeed in Practice. The FMEC thanks ChenMed for its ongoing sponsorship of our Preparing to Succeed in Practice content!
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Support Students to Attend FMEC: The FMEC has provided more than 7,000 scholarships to students to increase their interest in family medicine and primary care, get experience presenting posters, and meet family medicine residency programs at the Residency Fair. Help us bring students to the 2023 Annual Meeting by donating today. | |
Connections happen at the FMEC Annual Meeting! | |
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At the FMEC 2022 Annual Meeting in Arlington, VA, Dr. Josh Steinberg of the UHS Family Medicine Residency in Binghamton, NY gave a talk “How to Make an iPhone Medical App.” Not long after, Penn State medical students who attended the talk contacted Dr. Steinberg, representing a club of first year medical students interested in technology, led by Derek Barnett and Linda Qiu. Dr. Steinberg gave the talk to their student group, and then helped them with a project to turn an iPhone app into an Android version. Thank you, Dr. Steinberg, and congratulations to the Penn State students who are learning to program!
Dr. Steinberg’s work was also highlighted during the August 29 Family Medicine Residency Showcase on contraception held by the Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency. Dr. Caroline LaFave shared information on Dr. Steinberg’s Contraception App, which is a free, handy point-of-care resource that brings together information from the Reproductive Health Access Project (RHAP), the CDC, the FDA and more. It’s available in both the Google Play and Apple stores.
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Healthcare infrastructure funding opportunity | |
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A challenge to building primary care services is access to affordable capital to build infrastructure. The FMEC works with Turner Impact Capital, a carefully-vetted company that is looking for worthy projects to increase access to primary care in underserved communities. FMEC members are invited to prepare and submit a two-page description of a project for potential funding. Dr. Leonard Fromer, President, Healthcare Initiatives at Turner Impact Capital, and his team will work with FMEC CEO Emeritus Larry Bauer to select a maximum of 5 projects. Representatives will be invited to present their proposed projects at the 2023 FMEC Annual Meeting on Saturday, October 14, 2023. For questions or to submit your proposal, please contact Larry Bauer at laurence.bauer@gmail.com.
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Call for applications for FMEC student and resident board positions | |
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The FMEC will expand its Board of Trustees in 2023 to 17 positions, in order to add both a medical student and a family medicine resident. Terms will be one year with the option to serve again. Candidates must be actively enrolled in a medical school or family medicine residency training program in the FMEC region (14 states +DC – see the list on the FMEC website) or at an international medical school which has an active FMEC Partnership (see FMEC Partner list). Please read the full announcement for additional important details.
Applicants will be required to submit the following: a short letter of application that states you will fulfill the commitment; your CV; a short, recorded video answering the question “Why do you want to serve on the FMEC Board of Trustees?,” and a letter from your dean or program director stating that you are in good standing in your school or program and that you will be supported to fulfill the requirements of Board service. When ready, please visit FMEC Student/Resident Board Position Application to submit your application.
The deadline for applications is October 27, 2023, but we encourage you to submit your application as early as possible. Applicants will be notified of their status immediately after October 27, 2023, and terms for the student and resident selected will begin on November 1, 2023. The term will end October 31, 2024.
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New committees will advance
FMEC efforts
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The FMEC Board of Trustees is establishing new committees to help advance core FMEC goals. These will include:
· Leadership/Mentorship
· Medical Student Education
· Faculty Development
· Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
We are currently seeking co-chairs and members for these groups. If you are interested, please contact Scott Allen at scott.allen@fmec.net. Or, you can visit the FMEC table during the exhibits at the FMEC Annual Meeting to learn more and sign up. We hope to start convening these groups virtually starting in late 2023.
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2023 Family Medicine Residency Showcase virtual series | |
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Over 300 medical students and others have already signed up to learn about family medicine and residency programs in the northeast U.S. through the FMEC Family Medicine Residency Showcase series. Please help by circulating information to medical students. The upcoming schedule is:
Tuesday, September 19, 2023, at 6pm Eastern
Obstetrics in Family Medicine, Lancaster General Health/Penn Medicine Family Medicine Residency Program
Click here to register
Wednesday, September 20, 2023, at 6pm Eastern
Lifestyle Medicine, UPMC Altoona Family Physicians
Click here to register
Tuesday, September 26, 2023, at 6pm Eastern
STI Prevention: PrEP and DoxyPrEP, Allegheny Health Network
Click here to register
Wednesday, September 27, 2023, at 6pm Eastern
Fellowship and Job Opportunities in Family Medicine, UPMC Shadyside Family Medicine Residency
Click here to register
Tuesday, October 24, 2023, at 6pm Eastern
Your Individualized Career Goals: How Areas of Concentration Can Help You Prepare for Your Future, Greater Lawrence Family Medicine Residency
Click here to register
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New offer from Rosh Review
and the FMEC
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Do your residents use question banks? The FMEC is partnering with Rosh Review to bring your residents a top family medicine Qbank. You and your residents will benefit from 2,000 ABFM-formatted questions with the Rosh Review explanations residents love, custom illustrations to help clarify core concepts, and performance monitoring for the resident and the program director. Contract Patrick at Patrick@RoshReview.com to set up a short demo or get a price quote with the exclusive FMEC discount. Not only will your program benefit, but the FMEC’s student scholarship program will benefit for every northeast residency program that takes advantage of this offer!
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Relational Leadership Convening 2023
Intend Health Strategies 2023 Relational Leadership Convening will be held in Atlanta, Georgia from October 11-13, 2023. Attendees will connect with others who are committed to driving positive change in healthcare by focusing on what matters most: the people. They will learn practical strategies to cultivate connection within teams and organizations, adopt relational practices by tapping into the stories and collective wisdom, and more. The FMEC is a sponsor of Intend Health Strategies RL Convening, and Intend Health Strategies is a sponsor of the FMEC 2023 Annual Meeting!
STFM QI Conference featured FMEC speakers
Last week, at the STFM Conference on Practice and Quality Improvement in St. Louis, FMEC President Dr. Leon McCrea presented the general session, “Moving Anti-Racism Forward: Making a Difference in Healthcare Delivery.” And FMEC leader Dr. Susanna Evans and CEO Scott Allen presented “Let Me Tell You a Story - Narrative Medicine as a Tool to Foster Impactful Conversations around Hereditary Cancer in Women,” sharing results of the recent FMEC learning collaborative. Those results along with tools for your practice are now posted on the FMEC Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer page.
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Hispanic and Latino Heritage Month | |
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National Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15-October 15, 2023. September 15-18 are the anniversaries of independence for several Latin American countries, and many Latin and Spanish-speaking countries also celebrate Día de la Raza on October 12. By the year 2045, it is projected that whites will no longer make up the majority of the U.S. population, and within the new majority, Hispanics will be the largest group. How will your health system or training program be honoring Hispanic Heritage Month? According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, Hispanic/Latino Americans have the highest uninsured rates of any racial or ethnic group within the US, and they are significantly impacted by chronic lower respiratory diseases, liver disease, influenza and pneumonia, suicide, and kidney disease. Find graphics and social media, reading lists, fact sheets, and more on the US DHHS Get Involved in National Hispanic Heritage Month page.
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Integrative Health
Watch for more information from the FMEC as we launch educational programing on, and convene faculty who are teaching it for networking, later in 2023. If you are interested in being involved in FMEC’s work on integrative and whole-person health, please reach out to Rebecca Bouck at rebecca.bouck@fmec.net. Shortly, the FMEC will start convening regular meetings of faculty who are teaching, or what to teach, integrative medicine, and we will start a series of virtual education programs on related topics.
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Narrative Medicine and Breast Cancer
The FMEC’s learning collaborative of 10 family medicine residency programs has wrapped up. The project increased providers’ comfort with hereditary cancer discussions, and nearly all participants expect to use and teach about the CDC’s Bring Your Brave campaign materials. Next, the FMEC will develop a clinic-based QI project, with expected American Board of Family Medicine approval for performance improvement credit, on identifying and screening for hereditary breast cancer using narrative medicine. We are recruiting clinics to participate now and hope to launch the educational sessions and Qi cycles in December 2023. To join the collaborative, email Rebecca Bouck at rebecca.bouck@fmec.net
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A selection of upcoming family medicine and primary care meetings, nationally and in the FMEC region, in the next 3 months. If you have a meeting to be listed, please email jennifer.stamper@fmec.net.
October 13-15, 2023: FMEC 2023 Annual Meeting, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI
September 29 - October 1, 2023: Family Medicine Midwest Conference, NIU Conference Center, Naperville, IL
October 13-15, 2023: FMEC 2023 Annual Meeting, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI
October 26-30, 2023: AAFP FMX, Chicago, IL
February 8-11, 2024 - Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) Conference on Medical Student Education, Atlanta, GA
February 20-24, 2024 - Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM) Annual Conference, Palm Springs, CA
March 25-27, 2024 – AAFP Residency Leadership Summit/Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors (AFMRD), Kansas City, KS
March 27-31, 2024 – Student National Medical Association (SNMA) Annual Medical Education Conference, New Orleans, LA
April 4-7, 2024 – American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA
April 18-20, 2024 – AAFP Leadership Conference, Kansas City, MO
May 4-8, 2024 – STFM Annual Spring Conference, Los Angeles, CA
May 19-21, 2024 – AAFP Family Medicine Advocacy Summit, Washington, DC
May 30-June 1, 2024 – AMSA Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA
June 20-23, 2024 – Direct Primary Care Summit, Dallas, TX
July 27-29, 2024 – AAFP National Conference for Family Medicine Residents & Medical Students, Kansas City
September 15-18, 2024 – STFM Conference on Practice and Quality Improvement, Denver, CO
September 19-21, 2024 – FMEC Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
September 24-28, 2024 – AAFP FMX, Phoenix, AZ
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