Call for Presentations Open

Submission Deadline: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 (11:59 pm CDT)

The Call for Presentations is open for the 2026 STFM Annual Spring Conference in New Orleans, LA. The deadline to submit research proposals is September 2, 2025.

We welcome submissions from the entire family medicine faculty care team: physicians, medical assistants, physician assistants, residents, students, health educators, coordinators, and administrators. We also encourage submissions from our STFM collaboratives.

A separate call will open in early November 2025 for Fellow, Resident, and Student Works in Progress Research Posters.

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Before Starting Your Submission

Take a look at these resources developed by the STFM Program Committee:

General Instructions

  1. Incomplete submissions will not be reviewed.
  2. Do not submit the same proposal in more than one category.
  3. Acknowledgment of receipt of submissions will be emailed automatically after you complete your submission.
  4. ALL PRESENTERS MUST PAY THE REGISTRATION FEE. In addition, no honoraria or
    travel expense reimbursement will be provided for any presenter submitting through the call for presentations.
  5. Presenters may not use any conference presentation to market products or services;
    partnerships are available for that purpose.
  6. Every presenter (lead and secondary) and author, will be required to complete a faculty disclosure form indicating any financial arrangement or affiliation with any organizations that may have a direct interest in the subject matter of the continuing medical education presentation

Presentation Topics

We encourage proposal submissions in these content areas

Best Practices

  • Resident career and leadership development
  • Faculty development 
  • Fundamentals of precepting, curriculum development, and learner evaluation
  • Supporting struggling learners
  • Use of artificial intelligence
  • Emerging technology in patient care and medical education including telemedicine and virtual teaching modalities
  • Medical education on climate change and health
  • Emergency preparedness and disaster response
  • Behavioral Health treatment of mental health/substance use disorders
  • Care of infants, children, and adolescents
  • Training, advocacy, and care for people with disabilities
  • Maternity care
  • Lifestyle medicine

Curriculum and Assessment

  • Osteopathic medicine: education and curriculum
  • Novel approaches to professionalism training, assessment, and remediation in family medicine 
  • Novel approaches to behavioral health training in family medicine
  • Antiracism training, education, and resources 
  • Health outcomes in practice and education
  • Family medicine training for rural and underserved communities
  • Family medicine training for LGBTQ+ affirming health care
  • Advocacy and activism skills for family medicine educators and learner

GME

  • Innovative strategies to meet new ACGME requirements
  • Competency-based medical education and procedural training
  • Improving assessment and evaluation processes
  • Holistic review in resident selection
  • Novel recruitment strategies for family medicine
  • UME to GME transition

Interprofessional Collaboration

  • Exemplary models of interprofessional collaboration in family medicine training

 

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Submission Categories

Download Specific Submission Templates Below. 
These templates (.doc) are to use offline to prepare your submission. You will need to copy and paste into the online submission system when you are ready to do so.

Questions

If you have questions about the submission process for the Annual Spring Conference, email stfmoffice@stfm.org or call (800) 274-7928.

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