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Resources for Residency Program Faculty
Family Medicine
Members of STFM receive a subscription to Family Medicine, the official peer-reviewed journal of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. Family Medicine publishes original research, systematic reviews, narrative essays, and policy analyses relevant to the discipline of family medicine, with a focus on primary care medical education, health workforce policy, and health services research.
Peer-Reviewed Reports in Family Medicine Research (PRiMER)
PRiMER, STFM’s online open-access journal, publishes brief reports on original research relevant to education in family medicine. PRiMER serves as a bridge between the presentation of research results at conferences and the development of full-length articles suitable for submission to traditional print journals. Manuscripts can be based on studies or projects that are small in scope, exploratory, confirmatory, or in an early stage of development.
STFM Blog
Be part of the conversation! Share your ideas about how to improve family medicine education and offer new perspectives on the role of family medicine in the health care system. The STFM Blog welcomes contributions.
STFM Education Column
STFM Education Columns are published monthly in the STFM Messenger. If you'd like to author an upcoming STFM Education Column, view submission details.
STFM Messenger
Read each issue of STFM’s enewsletter, the STFM Messenger, so you don’t miss out on new products and services; conference submission and registration deadlines; the STFM Education Column; and legislation and accreditation changes that affect academic family medicine. The STFM Messenger is emailed to members twice a month.
STFM Podcast
The STFM Podcast features conversations on key areas at the intersection of academic medicine, leadership, health equity, and medical education. .
Behavioral Science/Family Systems Educator Fellowship
This competitive, yearlong fellowship is for family medicine faculty who have responsibility for coordinating or teaching the behavioral science/family systems curriculum.
Emerging Leaders Fellowship
The yearlong Emerging Leaders Fellowship offers training, tools, and support for new faculty and those who are transitioning to leadership roles. Fellows learn essential leadership skills; lead a team in completion of a project and then present their results; and get connected to family medicine leaders who share tips on motivating others and handling difficult people and situations.
Faculty Development Delivered
Meet ACGME and/or LCME requirements, save on travel expenses, and provide CME opportunities with a customized faculty development workshop at your location. Our faculty will use interactive methods to engage your faculty and promote evidence-based teaching principles. Pay one lump sum and invite your faculty and preceptors.
Faculty Development Starter Package for Residencies
This combination of STFM resources helps new residency programs 1) understand and meet accreditation requirements and 2) prepare faculty to provide quality education to residents.
FM POCUS Educator's Certificate Program
During this year-long certificate program, residency faculty:
- Practice POCUS techniques and image acquisition
- Receive instruction on the clinical indications of and evidence on the use of POCUS at the bedside
- Learn how to implement a POCUS curriculum
- Practice how to be an effective POCUS preceptor
- Learn how to communicate and document POCUS scans
- Receive practical guidance on how to bill for POCUS
- Connect with a network of FM POCUS enthusiasts around the country
Leadership Through Scholarship Fellowship
The yearlong Leadership through Scholarship Fellowship offers training and mentorship for early-career underrepresented in medicine (URM) minority faculty with a focus on developing scholarly writing skills for academic advancement and leadership.
Medical Editing Fellowship
The STFM Medical Editing Fellowship provides one faculty member a yearlong experience with the editorial and publishing teams at Family Medicine. Through this part-time, virtual fellowship, early or mid-career faculty receive coaching and hands-on experience to improve their skills in writing, reviewing, and editing scientific papers. The fellowship begins in June.
Precepting Performance Improvement Toolkit
Recognize and reward your preceptors. The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) Precepting Performance Improvement Program allows academic units (Sponsors) to offer Performance Improvement credit to family physicians who teach medical students or residents and who participate in a teaching improvement activity. This toolkit offers resources and information for Sponsors.
Advocacy Course
This free online course, which takes less than an hour to complete, provides skills and practical strategies for advocating for and promoting the value of family medicine. The course includes these modules: Getting Started in Advocacy; Prepare and Make Contact; The One-Pager; The Visit; Maintaining the Relationship.
Faculty for Tomorrow Webinars
This free webinar series, developed by the Faculty for Tomorrow Task Force, provides fundamental knowledge and skills that new faculty and residents as educators need to thrive in a career in academic family medicine. Topics include effective classroom teaching, how to give feedback, clinical teaching skills, and more.
Giving Feedback Course
Giving feedback is a critical part of teaching future family physicians, but giving consistent, quality feedback can sometimes be challenging. This online course will introduce you to the principles of giving quality feedback and then take you to the next level by showing you when to give feedback, where, and what models you can use.
Leading Change Course
Learn to lead change in your institution, within your community, and nationally. The Leading Change Course covers how to assess the need for change, develop a plan for change, and provide successful change leadership. This free online course will take about 3 hours to complete.
Residency Faculty Fundamentals Certificate Program
This certificate program includes self-led courses with assignments to provide foundational training for residency faculty. Completion of the course requires approximately 30 hours and covers: the structure and requirements of residency education; how to be an effective faculty member; nuts and bolts of curriculum development; and strategies for assessment, feedback, and remediation.
These online courses and resources help faculty and residents:
- Understand how decisions are made in health systems
- Advocate for business-based solutions that incorporate the needs of medical education, family medicine, and health systems
URM Leadership Pathways in Academic Medicine
In this free online course, underrepresented in medicine (URM) faculty will learn about trajectories to academic leadership within a variety of institutions.
Wellness Course
Wellness is a critical part of preventing physician burnout and maintaining quality patient care. This course, featuring Catherine Florio Pipas, MD, MPH and Mark Greenawald, MD, will provide you with steps you need to take to develop and maintain your personal wellness. The Wellness course is an online course containing videos, readings, and activities. The course will take about an hour to complete.
Family Medicine Residency Curriculum Resource
The Family Medicine Residency Curriculum Resource houses peer-reviewed, competency-based curricular content organized by post-graduate year. The site includes presentations, facilitators’ guides, and quizzes for more than 200 residency topics. New curricula are added and updated on a regular basis.
Addiction Medicine Curriculum
This national addiction curriculum includes 12 addiction medicine modules with interactive content, handouts, videos, supplemental resources, and assessments.
Global Health Curriculum Toolkit
This guide for implementing a Global Health curriculum covers a broad list of topics that could be included in a global health track.
Residents as Educators Curriculum
This curricula, created by the Faculty for Tomorrow Task Force, can be used for didactic presentations to enhance residents' teaching skills. Each curriculum includes a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator's guide, and a quiz.
Smiles for Life
Developed by the STFM Oral Health Collaborative, the online and downloadable curriculum emphasizes the role of primary care clinicians in the promotion of oral health. Each module includes a 45-minute presentation, annotated presenter notes, educational objectives, test questions, companion videos, and a list of resources.
Give your learners the knowledge and skills they need to conduct effective, patient-centered telemedicine visits. Resources include guidance to help teaching clinicians integrate telemedicine topics into courses, clerkships, and residency curricula and national telemedicine curriculum for students and family medicine residents.
These online courses and resources help faculty and residents:
- Understand how decisions are made in health systems
- Advocate for business-based solutions that incorporate the needs of medical education, family medicine, and health systems
New Faculty Advocacy Scholarship
This scholarship is for new faculty to attend the Family Medicine Advocacy Summit in Washington, DC for the purpose of learning advocacy skills for personal and academic career development.
New Faculty Scholars Program
This program is designed to be a catalyst for developing future leaders in STFM and other areas of academic family medicine. The program provides funding to send 10 participants to the STFM Annual Spring Conference.
F. Marian Bishop Leadership Award
Established in 1990 in honor of Dr F. Marian Bishop, the F. Marian Bishop Leadership Award is presented by the STFM Foundation to honor individuals who have significantly enhanced the credibility of family medicine by a sustained, long-term commitment to family medicine in academic settings.
Curtis G. Hames Research Award
The Curtis G. Hames Research Award honors those individuals whose careers over the years exemplify dedication to research in family medicine. The award recipient is selected by a committee representing STFM, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the North American Primary Care Research Group. This award is supported by the Department of Family Medicine through the MCG Foundation's Hames Endowment of the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.
Lynn & Joan Carmichael STFM Recognition Award
The Lynn and Joan Carmichael STFM Recognition Award honors an STFM member or nonmember for outstanding leadership in advancing family medicine as a discipline. The nominee's achievements and activities should be clearly recognized as enhancing or supporting family medicine education by improving resources available for its support, by defense or support of its objectives, or by other notable service to the discipline. Such achievements should have had significance at a national level.
STFM Advocate Award
This award honors STFM member(s) for outstanding work in political advocacy at the local, state, or national level. The recipient's efforts are not restricted to legislative work but cannot be solely individual patient advocacy.
STFM Best Research Paper Award
The STFM Best Research Paper Award recognizes the best research paper published in a peer-reviewed journal during the previous academic year. The first author must be an STFM member. The STFM Research Committee bases the award selection on the quality of the research and its potential impact.
STFM Diversity Award
This award recognizes an STFM member who best promotes innovative leadership, impact, and change that advances diversity, equity, and/or inclusion in family medicine education through the nominee’s work as a family medicine faculty member.
STFM Excellence in Education Award
Designed to honor outstanding teachers, the STFM Excellence in Education Award recognizes an STFM member who has demonstrated excellence in teaching, curriculum development, mentoring, research, or leadership in education at regional or national levels. Nominees must have sustained involvement in family medicine teaching.
STFM Humanism Award
The STFM Humanism Award honors an STFM member who best embodies the attributes of humanism in medicine through his or her work as a family medicine faculty member. Humanism in medicine is characterized by a respectful and compassionate relationship between physicians, as well as all other members of the health care team and their patients. It reflects attitudes and behaviors that are sensitive to the values and the cultural and ethnic backgrounds of others.
STFM Innovative Program Award
The STFM Innovative Program Award honors excellence in the development of an original educational program or activity for family medicine residents, students, or faculty. The award recognizes a broad interpretation of innovative family medicine programs to include innovative residency programs, clerkships, services, curricula, or other activities that have had a significant, positive impact on family medicine education.
STFM Precepting Awards
The STFM Precepting Awards recognize teaching contributions by individuals and teaching practices. Medical schools and residency programs can nominate teachers and teaching practices that meet the criteria. The awards are intended for those who precept students, particularly community preceptors/practices.
Behavioral Science Basics
Access a compilation of teaching and clinical care resources for new and seasoned behavioral health/family systems educators, including curriculum, patient care resources, key articles, books, evaluation tools, and presentations.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accountability Aggregated Resources
Learn about STFM's antiracism and health equity initiatives, and access a compilation of resources.
Competency-Based Medical Education Toolkit
Learn about ACGME and ABFM expectations for assessing resident competence. Access resources for competency based education and assessment.
Family Medicine Residency Learning Network Aggregated Resources
Access faculty development, guides, and infrastructure support to meet ACGME FM-RC expectations for participation in residency learning networks.
Holistic & Inclusive Residency Recruitment Aggregated Resources
Increasing the diversity in residency programs requires intentional planning for each step of recruitment. Use these resources to learn about evidence-based practices in holistic review of applications, as well as methods for reducing bias in the residency interview process.
Joint Guidelines for Protected Nonclinical Time for Faculty in Family Medicine Residency Programs
These guidelines, endorsed by the family medicine organizations, include recommendations for allocation of protected time for program directors, associate program directors, and core faculty. These represent best practices to ensure programs have appropriate time to devote to the nonclinical duties of training and educating residents, while also promoting innovation in education, faculty well-being, and faculty retention. Residency programs, sponsoring institutions, universities, health care systems, and accrediting bodies should use these recommendations to develop budgets that provide appropriate time allocation to enhance faculty wellness, reduce turnover, and meet organizational missions and objectives around education and providing care for communities.
Residency Accreditation Toolkit
Get tips, techniques, and tools to help your program meet ACGME accreditation requirements. Streamline processes, train your faculty, empower your residency coordinator, use technology for accreditation support, and create a culture of assessment and performance improvement.
Resources for Reducing Mental Health Stigma for Faculty, Residents, and Students
Questions on state licensing applications and those used for hospital, medical group, and health plan credentialing should not deter physicians, faculty, residents, and students from getting the care they need. Use these resources to learn advocate for change.
Shots by AAFP/STFM
Get easy-to-use, up-to-date vaccine information at the point of care with Shots Immunizations by the American Academy of Family Physicians and Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. Shots includes guidance from the CDC on adult and childhood immunization schedules, plus supplemental text, graphics, and commentary from immunization experts. Download this free app from your app store.
STFM Resource Library
This shared, online library contains an extensive collection of resources uploaded by family medicine educators who are tired of “reinventing the wheel” every time they need curriculum or presentations. Visit the Resource Library to upload and access: conference presentations, curriculum, standardized patient cases, sample forms, policies, and guidelines, and more.
TeachingPhysician.org
TeachingPhysician.org is a comprehensive online resource that streamlines training, answers questions, and communicates regularly with preceptors on your behalf. It helps institutions recruit, train, and retain community preceptors and meet accreditation requirements for faculty development.
CERA (CAFM Educational Research Alliance)
Meet scholarly activity requirements through CERA, a free resource for medical educational research. With CERA you can survey family medicine educators, receive help from an experienced researcher, and access data from past surveys for secondary analysis.
Tips for New Researchers
Includes guidance on how to submit high-quality abstracts for STFM Conferences, implement quality improvement projects, and write a hypothesis.
STFM CONNECT
One of the greatest benefits of STFM membership is the opportunity to network and collaborate with others to address special interests and work toward common goals. STFM CONNECT, an online hub for Collaboratives, Special Project Teams, and Discussion Forums is the place to start if you’re interested in connecting and collaborating.
STFM Member Directory
Interact with thousands of family medicine educators from across the United States. The Membership Directory is available to STFM members only.
Events
October 9, 2024, 12 PM CT: CBME Webinar: The Role of Resident Portfolios in Competency-Based Assessment
November 13, 2024, 12 PM CT: CBME Webinar: Managing Assessment Burden in CBME
January 30-February 2, 2025: STFM Conference on Medical Student Education
May 3-7 2025: STFM Annual Spring Conference
Due Dates
October 4, 2024: STFM Advocate Award Nominations
October 21, 2024: STFM Foundation Board of Trustees Applications
October 28, 2024: Faculty for Tomorrow Resident Scholarship Applications
November 1, 2024: STFM Project Fund Applications
November 1, 2024: Emerging Leaders Fellowship Applications
November 1, 2024: Behavioral Science/Family Systems Educator Fellowship Applications
November 4, 2024: AI in Medical Education Task Force Applications
November 15, 2024: Submissions for Global Family Medicine Education Theme Issue in Family Medicine
November 29, 2024: Family Medicine Advocacy Summit Scholarship Applications
March 4, 2025: Medical Student Educators Development Institute (MSEDI) Applications
March 15, 2025: POCUS Educator's Certificate Program Applications