Society of Teachers of Family Medicine

08/30/2025

Check out the launch of the new Family Physicians DO More campaign by the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians! This resource is intended to help high school, college, pre-med and medical students understand their potential career pathways in osteopathic family medicine.

Help spread the word about the campaign and share it with your students and classmates! The attached flyer explains the differences between osteopathic and allopathic medical training with this flyer.

08/29/2025

We are 10 days away from the 2025 STFM Conference on Practice & Quality Improvement! As we near the conference, let’s highlight the general session featuring Stacy Ogbeide, PsyD, ABPP, UT Health San Antonio.

Dr Ogbeide will present “Behavioral Health Integration in Primary Care Helps Everyone”, which will review the current research related to integration in and its impact on patient care, the primary care team, and primary care behavioral health workforce development.

Want to register? There’s still time, and still some spots available. Better late than never! https://www.stfm.org/conferences/cpqi/registration/

08/28/2025

Family Medicine, the official journal of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, is seeking an associate editor to join our team. This volunteer position will report to the editor of Family Medicine.

The associate editor must:
📖 Have personal experience with research and scholarship
📖 Have experience reviewing for or publishing in Family Medicine
✍ Possess a sense of clear writing, style, organization, and presentation of information
📊 Demonstrate understanding of scientific methods, statistics, and other analytic methods, research and publishing ethics, and the peer-review process
🧾 Have a desire to read manuscripts and work with authors and reviewers
🗓️ Demonstrate the ability to adhere to established timelines
📞 Be available for weekly phone conferences with the editorial team
🤝 Attend the Editorial Board meeting held each year in conjunction with the Annual Spring Conference

Applications must be submitted by email by August 30 and include the following materials:
- A cover letter highlighting interest and qualification for the position
- A current curriculum vitae, including applicant’s publications

Send application by email to fmjournal@stfm.org with subject line: Family Medicine Associate Editor Search.

08/28/2025

The STFM Foundation, which is the charitable arm of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM), celebrates turning 50 years old this year! For a half century, the STFM Foundation has raised money to support crucial STFM scholarships, fellowships, and awards to sustain the future of family medicine education.

The training these funds provide have helped fill the academic family medicine pipeline with future leaders.

One such future leader is Anya G., a medical student at Georgetown University. She is a 2025 recipient of a STFM Foundation Medical Student Scholarship.

“Growing up on the East Coast and living in cities including Boston and Washington, D.C., I have witnessed the impact of health disparities, low health literacy, and distrust of the medical field on underserved communities. I would like to practice in an urban area to address these issues and provide individualized, culturally appropriate care. I am particularly passionate about serving my LGBTQ+ community, immigrant populations, and women. By participating in the 2025 STFM Conference on Medical Student Education, I hope to connect with mentors who can provide insight into navigating my path toward achieving these goals. While I know the populations I want to work with, I remain open to the journey of how I get there.”

Want to help celebrate STFM’s 50th anniversary and help fund other stories like Anya’s? Donate to our special fund: https://stfm.my.site.com/STFM/OrderApi__campaign?id=a0qPE00000B26FtYAJ&site=a0d1N00000HejpNQAR

08/26/2025

STFM is accepting applications for the New Faculty Scholars program!

Designed to be a catalyst for developing future academic family medicine leaders, this program provides early career faculty with 1 year of coaching, learning, and networking opportunities. Scholars receive mentorship/coaching, access to monthly webinar sessions, networking opportunities, recognition, and up to $1000 to attend and present at the STFM Annual Spring Conference.

"The New Faculty Scholars program was invaluable to me as an early career academic faculty member. The camaraderie and mentorship I received helped me make meaningful connections within STFM and build the foundational skills of inquiry and scholarship necessary to be a successful academic clinician." — Brigit Ray, MD, MME, Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa

Apply by September 30, 2025 to be considered: https://www.stfm.org/awardsscholarships/scholarships/newfacultyscholarsprogram/overview/ (or link in bio)

08/25/2025

Transforming Race Conversations addresses the way conversations around race happen all the time in our current world, usually as the result or cause of suffering and harm. Family physicians who are skilled in race conversations are positioned to mitigate much of the physical, mental, and emotional h...

08/25/2025

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has recently published several resources regarding vaccine integrity and AAFP vaccine recommendations for the fall respiratory virus season. Find them below!

📅 The AAFP published its vaccine schedule (https://lnkd.in/eqjDeWdt). The AAFP Commission on Health of the Public and Science will review the updated AAP COVID vaccine recommendations and update the schedule, if appropriate.

🎙️ The AAFP's newest Inside Family Medicine podcast with Reed Tuckson, MD, focuses on “Bolstering Trust in Health and Science": https://lnkd.in/epvTU9XU

📜 All AAFP resources for both family physicians and patients are available on the AAFP Vaccine Resource Hub: https://www.aafp.org/family-physician/patient-care/prevention-wellness/immunizations-vaccines.html

08/23/2025

We are happy to share the launch of Family Physicians DO More by the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP)! This resource is for high school, college, pre-med and medical students as they consider their career pathways, possibly in osteopathic family medicine.

Help spread the word about the campaign! The attached flyer features an overview of the osteopathic medicine, and a QR code that links to familyphysiciansdomore.org for easy access.

08/22/2025

On July 31, the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians launched a new campaign, "Family Physicians DO More," at familyphysiciansdomore.org. The campaign is geared towards the needs of high school, undergraduate, and medical school students to help them decide whether osteopathic family medicine is right for them.

This campaign is part of a 5-year project generously supported by two rounds of funding from the American Board of Family Medicine Foundation through its Family Medicine Next initiative. Despite the well-known benefits of family medicine, the shortage of primary care physicians is projected to be between 17,800 and 48,000 by 2034. To help attract more students to the field of family medicine, ACOFP proposed to "flip the script" by first listening to the needs of current medical students and letting their perspectives lead the way.

"Supporting the future of our profession is a key part of ACOFP's mission and one of my priorities as president," said ACOFP's 2025-2026 President Gautam J. Desai, DO, FACOFP dist. "I'm excited to see the impact this site will have and how we can leverage it to create enthusiasm for family medicine among incoming classes of students."

Read the full press release online: https://www.acofp.org/news-and-publications/news/full-news-article/2025/08/05/american-college-of-osteopathic-family-physicians-launches-new-campaign-to-attract-students-to-family-medicine

CHICAGO, August 4, 2025 (Newswire.com) - On July 31, the American College of Family Physicians (ACOFP) launched a new campaign, "Family Physicians DO More," at  familyphysiciansdomore.org. The campaign is geared towards the needs of high school, undergraduate, and medical school students to help t...

08/21/2025

“To wait until someone says, ‘Oh my god, I’m drowning,’ it’s way too late. You have to start early and continue it all the way along the person’s career.”

Elisabeth Wilson, MD, MPH, MS-HPEd, joins Dean Seehusen, MD, on the final part of STFM’s podcast series with the Association of Departments of Family Medicine.

Drs Wilson and Seehusen unpack the differences between coaching, mentoring, and sponsoring. This is one of many insightful quotes from the podcast, “ADFM Lifecycle of Leadership Series Part 3: Cultivating Other Leaders”. Listen to these two academic family medicine leaders talk about how to cultivate new leaders and guide your department forward toward collective growth.

Stream through Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or listen online: https://www.stfm.org/stfmpodcast082025

08/20/2025

The STFM Pharmacist Faculty Collaborative shared its next member spotlight! Caroline D. Crossey, PharmD, BCACP, BC-ADM, is currently an ambulatory care pharmacy at Inova Health System and works on the Comprehensive Medication Management team. She is also the recruitment chair for the STFM Pharmacist Faculty Collaborative.

Check out the flyer attached to learn more about what Dr Crossey does in her current practice and why she loves family medicine!

If you are interested in learning more about the STFM Pharmacist Faculty Collaborative or connecting with members on LinkedIn, visit the collaborative's LinkedIn page: https://lnkd.in/diPRKvah

If you wish to be considered for one of the STFM Pharmacist Faculty Collaborative's highlighted members, please fill out this link: http://bit.ly/3HhUBmM

08/20/2025

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