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“It is great to see you again!”
I am a Family Medicine Residency Director in Lancaster, PA and this time of year is busy with interviewing medical students for the July 2025 intern class. I cannot tell you how many times over the last two months I have said the sentence above to medical students that I first met at FMEC Annual Meetings over the last few years. FMEC helps make my job as a program director so much easier. It helps me recruit students to my residency. Through collaborative projects like the IMPLICIT Network, it helps our residents and faculty do scholarly activities including performance improvement projects, presentations and research. The offerings at the Annual Meeting help me learn different approaches to clinical and academic problems, and they inspire me. The FMEC provides leadership opportunities for our residents, faculty and program leaders.
For many, December is a time to reflect on the events of the past year and make resolutions for the upcoming year. I am grateful for all that FMEC has done for me this year. As President of the Board of Trustees, I resolve to lead and support FMEC in its mission “to improve the health of the nation by strengthening family medicine and primary care to meet its full potential.”
Happy Holidays to you and your family!
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FMEC Annual Meeting –
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The Call for Submissions for the FMEC 2025 Annual Meeting is open!
Visit the FMEC 2025 Annual Meeting page for more information. This includes the types of sessions being accepted, descriptions of those in the 2025 Session Description Document, and the deadline, which is February 3, 2025. Please note that poster submissions are not being accepted until later in the spring, but all other types (Workshops, Seminars, Lecture Discussions, etc.) are due February 3, 2025. Please read through the 2025 Session Description Document and also read the instructions on the Call for Submissions Form before starting your submission.
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Join the FMEC in 2025 at the Huntington Convention Center in Cleveland, Ohio from September 18-20, 2025. Share your best practices and innovations with 1,000 of your colleagues throughout the region. Formats range from 5 minutes to an hour. Submissions are vetted through a peer-review process. We encourage first-time presenters to submit, and Planning Committee members are available to help craft and improve proposals so they can be accepted.
New to the FMEC Annual Meeting? Learn more and see photos in the 2024 Annual Meeting Wrap Up Report. You can access the Wrap Up Report on the FMEC website, along with the printed program, Residency Fair list, poster presentation winners, and more.
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Join an FMEC committee to plan the 2025 Annual Meeting | |
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Meet colleagues, add to your CV, and help make 2025 the best meeting ever by serving on the Planning Committee, Host Committee, or Award Review Teams.
Nearly 50 individuals serve on the Planning Committee to help review and score program submissions for the Annual Meeting. Each reviewer receives a subset of submissions, and they also may help mentor speakers when the proposals need work. We always need more reviewers! Please consider joining and/or asking your faculty or residents to join. Contact Lisa Schwieterman at lisa.schwieterman@fmec.net for more information.
Residency programs in Ohio and western Pennsylvania should join the Host Committee. The Host Committee chooses the meeting theme, suggests plenary speakers, raises money to support the meeting, and helps the FMEC engage the local community Please contact Scott Allen at scott.allen@fmec.net.
Award Review Teams review submissions for the FMEC’s seven awards and choose winners. Read more about the FMEC awards, and contact Jennifer Stamper at jennifer.stamper@fmec.net if you are interested in serving on a review panel.
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FMEC Healthcare Innovators Network Videos Posted
Since 2008, the FMEC has hosted the Healthcare Innovators Network during its Annual Meeting, where industry leaders present cutting-edge practices and more. You can catch up on these presentations by viewing videos posted on the FMEC Annual Meeting Healthcare Innovators Network page. Topics included building new medical schools, advocacy for primary care, community health workers, and more. Do you have an innovation to share? The FMEC is working on the agenda for the 2025 Healthcare Innovators Network. Contact Scott Allen at scott.allen@fmec.net to discuss presentations and/or sponsorship.
Pulse Poetry Submissions Due December 31
Every Friday, Pulse–voices from the heart of medicine publishes and distributes a first-person story or poem, together with a visual image or haiku, about health care. Poetry editors will soon be reviewing submissions to decide which poems will appear in Pulse this spring and in the year that follows. Please read Pulse’s Submission Guidelines then use the Poetry Submission Form for each submission. Submissions are due December 31, 2024.
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Job opportunities!
The FMEC circulates job and fellowship opportunities from its Partners at the Silver level and above. For the most recent email of opportunities, which included opportunities from more than a dozen health systems in the northeast US, visit FMEC Special Edition Newsletters. The final 2024 edition was just released this week!
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Help Introduce Students
to Family Medicine
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At the 2024 Annual Meeting, incoming President Dr. Pam Vnenchak announced that the FMEC’s student scholarship program – which has brought nearly 8,000 medical students to FMEC meetings over the last 20 years – would be named the Nik Zervanos Student Scholarship Program, in honor of FMEC founder, Dr. Nikitas Zervanos. Dr. Zervanos, founder and long-time director of the Family Practice Residency Program at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, has been instrumental in introducing students to family medicine. In 1992, Dr. Zervanos singlehandedly found a funding source to pay for the expense of bringing dozens of students to the FMEC Annual Meeting. That meeting, known as “The Happening in Lancaster,” started FMEC on the path it follows today. Thousands of medical students have chosen the specialty due to their exposure at the FMEC meetings.
Please help continue the great work started by Dr. Zervanos and contribute to the Nik Zervanos, MD, Student Scholarship program.
Help the FMEC bring 300+ students to the Annual Meeting every Year!
Donate to support student scholarships today.
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Get your discounts as an FMEC Partner or Member
Joining the FMEC as an individual or institution not only helps support the FMEC mission and promote family medicine, but it gives you tangible benefits and discounts. Programs who are FMEC Partners receive $300 discounts on their Residency Fair booths, and individuals who join, or receive complimentary memberships through an FMEC Partner organization, receive $50-75 discounts on registration. Read more about FMEC Memberships and Partnerships now and join or renew. And don’t forget to watch the FMEC Special Edition email newsletter for job and fellowship openings from FMEC Silver Partners and above.
A hearty THANK YOU to the residency programs, medical schools, and health systems who have joined or renewed their FMEC partnerships. See the full list at FMEC Partners. The support of these FMEC partners is critical to the FMEC’s success.
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A selection of upcoming family medicine and primary care meetings, nationally and in the FMEC region. If you have a meeting to be listed, please email jennifer.stamper@fmec.net.
- Jan. 30 - Feb. 2 (STFM) Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Conference on Medical Student Education, San Antonio, TX
- Feb. 18-21 (ADFM) Association of Departments of Family Medicine Annual Conference, Nashville, TN
- Feb. 20-22 (ACGME) Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Annual Educational Conference, Nashville, TN
- Mar. 25-27 - (AFMRD) Residency Leadership Summit/Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors, Kansas City, MO
- Apr. 2-7 - (ACOFP) American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA
- Apr. 16-20 - (SNMA) Student National Medical Association Annual Medical Education Conference, St. Louis, MO
- Apr. 23-26 – AAFP Leadership Conference (ACLF/NCCL), Kansas City, MO
- May 3-7 – STFM Annual Spring Conference, Salt Lake City, UT
- Jul. 24-27 – (DPC) Direct Primary Care Summit, New Orleans, LA
- Jul. 31 – Aug. 2 - AAFP FUTURE Conference (formerly National Conference for Family Medicine), Kansas City, MO
- Sep. 8-10 – STFM Conference on Practice and Quality Improvement, Pittsburgh, PA
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Sep. 18-20, 2025 – FMEC Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH
- Oct. 5-9 – AAFP FMX, Anaheim, CA
- Nov. 21-25 – (NAPCRG) North American Primary Care Research Group Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA
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Sep. 24-26, 2026 – FMEC Annual Meeting, Atlantic City, NJ
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