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April | 2025

Registration will open for the FMEC 2025 Annual Meeting on Thursday, April 17! Registration has been open for the Exhibits and the Residency Fair, and we already have nearly 20 residency programs joining us in Cleveland! Registration for individuals to attend the meeting and preconferences will open tomorrow. Watch your email and visit www.fmec.net for more information.

On April 9, the FMEC staff held a short overview of registration processes and other information for the FMEC 2025 Annual Meeting. Thank you to all the Coordinators and other GME Administrators who joined! The video recording and slides are posted for those who missed it.

FMEC staff is always available to help your program learn more about the meeting and get registered. Please contact Shayla Rammel at shayla.rammel@fmec.net with any questions.

Learn more about FMEC’s oral health Performance Improvement/Continuing Medical Education (PICME) initiative in the project overview and answer our question of the month below!

The FMEC’s Annual Awards competition opened last month. Nominations and submissions are due this Friday, April 18! Share information now on family physicians and other health professionals who are deserving, and get your prose, poetry and visual art submissions in!

Did you know?

• All award winners receive a free FMEC Annual Meeting registration!
• Leadership award winners also receive two nights of lodging at our preferred hotel! 

Click the links below to learn more about each award:

Leadership Awards

Family Physicians Changing Our World

Mid-Career Faculty Achievement

Emerging Leaders

Creative Expression Awards

This We Believe

Creative Writing

Family Medicine through the Visual Arts

Joining the FMEC as an individual or institution gives you 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. Join or renew now so you get your discounts when registration for the 2025 Annual Meeting opens soon!

Also, institutions that join at the Silver ($2,500) Partner level and above get access to the FMEC’s Special Edition newsletter to post their job and fellowship openings. That’s one fee for an entire year of posting job ads! Read more about Special Edition and share the information with your recruiting department in this FMEC Special Edition Overview.

Read more about FMEC Memberships and Partnerships now and join or renew. 

IMPLICIT Network Updates

The IMPLICIT Network is a primary care maternal-child health learning collaborative focused on improving birth outcomes and promoting the health of women, birthing people, infants and families through innovative models of care, quality improvement, and the professional development of current and future physicians. Over 50 sites in 12 states participate. Future IMPLICIT webinars will address smoking/vaping, the birth experience, premature birth, and Medicaid/medical assistance; dates to be announced. And congratulations to the IMPLICIT team for securing approval from the American Board of Family Medicine as an Organizational Performance Improvement (PI) project, so IMPLICT participants can use participation to satisfy their PI requirement. For more information about IMPLICIT, visit IMPLICIT Network.

STFM Medical Student Scholar Nominations, Conference

The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) is calling for nominations of medical students who have an interest in family medicine and the potential for an academic career to be STFM Foundation Student Scholars. Winners receive free registration to the 2026 STFM Conference on Medical Student Education and up to $500 to cover travel expenses. Nominations are due May 16, 2025. Visit STFM Foundation Student Scholarship for more information. In addition, STFM is accepting proposals for the 2025 Conference on Medical Student Education. Submissions are due by June 10, 2025. Visit 2026 STFM Conference on Medical Student Education for more information.

Students love the FMEC meeting!

“I'm Najya Williams from the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. I'm writing to share that I proudly matched into Family Medicine at UPMC St. Margaret in Pittsburgh. The residency fair I attended at last year's FMEC was the first time I had a chance to meet and chat directly with the beautiful team at UPMC St. Margaret, so I wanted to say thank you for creating space for students like me to have such a wonderful opportunity and positive outcome. Please see attached for photo from the special day :-)”

Donate Today

The Nik Zervanos, MD, Student Scholarship program has brought nearly 8,000 medical students to FMEC meetings over the last 20 years. Please help continue the great work started by Dr. Zervanos and donate to the Nik Zervanos, MD, Student Scholarship program.

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has launched the Be Their First campaign, to position family medicine as a rewarding and fulfilling career choice for medical students. Read more in this AAFP Voices Blog Post, and visit the campaign website.

Mark your calendars! Below are key dates for the FMEC 2025 Annual Meeting.

Educational Programming

February 3 – Call for Submissions Closed

May 5 – Submission Acceptance Emails Begin

May 15 – Call for Poster Submissions Opens

July 1 – Call for Poster Submissions Closes

Late July – Poster Acceptance Emails Sent

September 18-20 – FMEC Annual Meeting

Registration and Hotel

OPEN NOW! – Registration Opens for Residency Fair, Exhibitors

OPEN NOW! – Hotel Room Blocks Open (Hilton Cleveland, Marriott Cleveland)

OPEN TOMORROW! – Registration Opens for Individuals

OPEN TOMORROW! – Student Scholarship Application Form Opens

August 8 – Registration Early Bird Deadline

August 8 – Last Day to Cancel with Refund (minus $50 fee)

August 25 – Hotel Room Blooks Deadline (no guarantee of room/rate after this date)

September 9 – Online Registration Closes; no Residency Fair or Exhibitor registration after this date

September 17 – Onsite Registration Opens; individuals only

September 18-20 – FMEC Annual Meeting

Awards

OPEN NOW! – Awards Nomination/Submission Process Opens

April 18 – Awards Nomination/Submission Deadline

May 15 – Award Winner Notifications Begin

September 18-20 – FMEC Annual Meeting

Dates are subject to change slightly; watch your FMEC email for any updates.

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.

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.

• 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
• Sep. 12-13 – Family Medicine Midwest Conference, Naperville, IL
• 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
• Sep. 24-26, 2026 – FMEC Annual Meeting, Atlantic City, NJ