Resources for Family Medicine Residents

Faculty for Tomorrow Webinars

This free webinar series, developed by the Faculty for Tomorrow Task Force, provides fundamental knowledge and skills that residents and new faculty need to thrive in a career in academic family medicine. Topics include effective classroom teaching, how to give feedback, clinical teaching skills, and more.

Faculty for Tomorrow Workshop for Residents

This full-day preconference workshop, facilitated by the STFM Graduate Medical Education Committee, is for residents and fellows who are interested in careers in academic family medicine. The workshop, which takes place the day before the STFM Annual Spring Conference includes sessions on teaching and academic skills, a career-planning panel discussion, and a leadership training session. 

Family Medicine Careers

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Glossary of Terms and Acronyms

Use this glossary to get definitions and learn about organizations involved in family medicine.

Resident Leadership Opportunity

STFM leadership opportunities include serving on the STFM Board of Directors and Graduate Medical Education Committee. The STFM Board includes one resident member elected at the AAFP FUTURE Conference. The resident member of the Board also serves a term on the STFM Graduate Medical Education Committee.

STFM Annual Spring Conference

Attend the STFM Annual Spring Conference to collaborate and network with approximately 1500 family medicine faculty, residents, medical students, and other academic leaders.

STFM Conference on Medical Student Education

The STFM Conference on Medical Student Education provides the opportunity for educators and learners to obtain the skills and resources to help students become proficient, empathetic, cooperative, and innovative physicians.

STFM Conference on Practice & Quality Improvement

Come be on the leading edge of evolving health care at the STFM Conference on Practice & Quality Improvement. Join other health care professionals invested in transforming their medical practice or residency program to benefit patients.

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

As an STFM member, you can access the member directory with profiles and contact information for thousands of family medicine educators, residents, and students.

Quick Consult

Quick Consult is an online mentoring platform that links STFM members in search of guidance/advice with seasoned peers interested in sharing their wisdom and expertise.

Addiction Medicine Curriculum

This national addiction curriculum includes 12 addiction medicine modules with interactive content, handouts, videos, supplemental resources, and assessments.

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 residents and new faculty need to thrive in a career in academic family medicine. Topics include effective classroom teaching, how to give feedback, clinical teaching skills, and more.

Financial Wellness Education for Academic Family Medicine Professionals

STFM prioritizes educating and assisting academic family medicine professionals, residents, and medical students who want to learn more about personal finance and improve their financial health and future. These free resources, which are provided through a partnership with Equitable Advisors, can enhance the financial acumen of educators and learners within the specialty of family medicine.

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 online course contains interactive modules, a downloadable Leading Change Workbook for individual learners, 18 optional group activities, and video interviews with change leaders.

Smiles for Life

Developed by the STFM Oral Health Collaborative, this 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.

Telemedicine Curriculum

Use this curriculum to get the knowledge and skills you need to conduct effective, patient-centered telemedicine visits.

Time Management Course

This online course introduces practical, proven methods to help you focus not only your day, but your weeks, months, and even your year. This course provides actionable tips and strategies on every page, and includes a Time Management Toolkit that will let you experiment with different techniques that work for you. 

Understanding Health Systems

The Understanding Health Systems online courses and curriculum 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

STFM welcomes abstract submissions from residents in all categories for our conferences. We have designated opportunities for:

• Fellows, Residents, Students Works-in-Progress Research Posters at the STFM Annual Spring Conference
• Resident and student posters and team presentations at the STFM Conference on Practice and Quality Improvement

Tips for New Researchers

This resource includes tips on submitting abstracts for STFM conferences, how to implement quality improvement projects, and guidance on writing a hypothesis.

Family Medicine

Resident members of STFM can read the official, online peer-reviewed journal of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, 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. 

Faculty for Tomorrow Resident Scholarship

The Faculty for Tomorrow Resident Scholarship provides residents with a scholarship to cover the registration costs to attend the Faculty for Tomorrow Preconference Workshop and the STFM Annual Spring Conference. Additional scholarships are available for underrepresented in medicine resident applicants.

H. Winter Griffith Resident Scholarship for Excellence in Practice Improvement and Patient-Centered Care