STFM Strategic Plan Update Underway
The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine has embarked on an update of its Strategic Plan for 2020–2025. As part of the process, the Strategic Planning Committee (SPC) will assess the previous goals and strategies and the achievements of the organization in relation to the current plan. The SPC will also review results of extensive data collected from the STFM member needs survey, interviews with current and past members, a staff survey, and SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analyses performed by each STFM Standing Committee.
Education Column
Public Health at the Bedside: Integrating Public Health Training in a Family Medicine Clerkship
During their family medicine clerkship rotation, medical students at the Medical University of South Carolina immersed themselves in everyday public health issues as a means of investigating the role of family medicine in public health.
New Strategies for Decreasing Burnout and Implicit Bias in Medical Education Workplace
In this video, health professionals can learn wellness strategies from Catherine Florio Pipas, MD, MPH and techniques for identifying
microaggressions in the medical education workplace from Roberto Montenegro, MD, PhD.
STFM Launches New Website
The new STFM website launches December 17 and features a more responsive design, along with these great features:
- State-of-the-art megamenus for easy access to invaluable educational material
- Streamlined functionality for conference submission, registrations, and membership renewals
- User-friendly options for researching account history and personal receipts
During the weekend of December 15-16, members may note that some functionality is offline as the website conversion takes place, including the STFM store, conference registration, membership renewals, and access to member profiles. Member-only areas, such as the National Clerkship Curriculum, Residency Accreditation Toolkit, and the Residency Curriculum Resource may be offline for a brief period of time as well.
Once the website is fully launched, STFM members will receive an email with instructions on how to access the new site.
National Meeting on Increasing Investment in Primary Care
Family Medicine for America's Health (FMAHealth), in collaboration with the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, held the first national conversation on increasing investment in primary care on November 9, 2018. Payers, employers, clinicians, consumers, and legislators worked together to determine how to increase investment in primary care in as many states as possible over the next few years. Attendees also heard from Alex Azar, secretary of Health and Human Services, about how the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation would move forward with alternative primary care payment models.
Blog Post
Mi Gente
Reflecting about his first STFM Annual Spring Conference, Edgar Figueroa, MD, MPH, writes, "I led one of my first academic presentations but more importantly got to connect with the most Black and Latinx physicians I’ve ever encountered outside of a National Hispanic Medical Association or Student National Medical Association meeting." His message to students, residents, and faculty on why they should be involved: "What you get back is so much more than you put in."
Donate to the Underrepresented in Medicine Campaign, and learn more about its multi-year mission.
Member Kudos
Congratulations to STFM Past President Marjorie Bowman, MD, MPA on her new appointment as chief academic affiliations officer at the Veterans Health Administration.
Congratulations to the University of North Dakota and East Carolina University for having the most graduates entering family medicine residency programs in the past decade. The University of North Dakota had 18.9% of graduates enter family medicine residency programs and East Carolina University had 18.8%.
Events
December 6-9:
Conference on Practice Improvement
January 31-February 3:
Conference on Medical Student Education
