Purpose: Interactive, skill-building session that occurs on the day before the conference begins and requires more time than the other conference formats allow. There are limited slots for this session format.
NOTE: If your workshop will be sponsored by an outside (non-STFM) group, organization, or other funder, the sponsor information will be required on the submission form.
Time: 4-8 hours
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Purpose: A participatory, task-oriented, small group educational experience directed toward the acquisition, demonstration, construction, and/or synthesis of specific knowledge, skills, and /or attitudes. There are limited slots for this session format.
Time: 90 minutes
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Purpose: A moderated, interactive session that brings together 3-5 panelists to engage participants in discussion about an innovative or provocative topic in family medicine education. The panelists must demonstrate their content expertise in the submission and ideally, represent multiple institutions. There are limited slots for this session format.
Time: 60 minutes
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Purpose: An interactive session focusing on dissemination and discussion of an innovative educational, administrative, research, career development, or clinical topic. Submission must demonstrate plan for active audience engagement.
Time: 60 minutes
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Purpose: 30-minute session focusing on dissemination and discussion of an innovative topic related to education, administration, research, career development, or clinical practice improvement.
Required elements
- Reportable outcomes for dissemination
- Submission describes use of interactive teaching methods to be applied in the session
- Examples include: outcomes of a curricular innovation or clinical project that improved learner knowledge or practice outcomes, or an intervention that created an opportunity to meet educational needs or well-being.
Note: Projects still in progress at the time of submission (not at the time of presentation) are most appropriate for the Developing Scholarly Project Poster category. New ideas can be submitted in the Scholarly Roundtable category.
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Purpose: A 15-minute presentation for presenters to briefly describe implementation and outcomes of a completed innovative educational, administrative, career development, or clinical program/project. Active audience engagement is required but limited to question and answer format.
Time: 15 minutes (10 minutes for presentation, 5 minutes for discussion) Multiple presentations grouped by topic and presented consecutively in each session.)
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Purpose: These sessions focus on research submissions that critically evaluate and test completed interventions in education, process of care, patient-oriented outcomes, and quality of care. Submissions must include purpose, methods, results, and conclusions.
Time: 15 minutes - 10 minutes for presentation, 5 minutes for discussion (each; multiple presentations grouped by topic presented consecutively in each session.)
Distinguished Paper – 20 minutes - 15 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions and discussions.
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Purpose: Small group, interactive opportunity for 10 participants to share ideas, experiences, or projects pertinent to family medicine education, clinical care, research, or management. Presenters will briefly introduce their topic and then facilitate interaction between the participants to enhance knowledge and generate ideas. Occurs concurrently with other discussions during a 60-minute breakfast in the general session ballroom.
Time: 50 minutes (including breakfast)
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Developing Project Poster
An opportunity to view and discuss an innovative educational or curricular project pertinent to family medicine, that is in an early stage of development.
Time: Presenters will be assigned to a 60-minute poster session
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Completed Project Poster
An opportunity to view and discuss implementation and results of a completed innovative educational or curricular project pertinent to family medicine.
Time: Presenters will be assigned to a 60-minute poster session
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Completed Research Poster
An opportunity to view quality of care studies and discuss investigators’ completed original research.
Time: Presenters will be assigned to a 60-minute poster session
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Fellow, Resident, Student Works-in-Progress Posters
An opportunity to illustrate research projects currently in progress by clinical or academic family medicine fellows, residents, and students.
Time: Presenters will be assigned to a 60-minute poster session
