Join FMEC for Exciting Preconferences | | |
Get the most out of the FMEC Annual Meeting by arriving on Thursday, September 18 to attend a preconference! Registration rates are low (or free). Visit 2025 Annual Meeting Preconferences for the full list and descriptions, or click the individual links below.
| | Poster Submissions Accepted Through July 1 | | The poster submission form for the FMEC 2025 Annual Meeting is open now and will close on July 1, 2025. We encourage medical students and residents to submit to present! Medical students in the FMEC region may be eligible for scholarships to attend; visit Medical Student Scholarships for more information. | | Presenters, Watch Your Email | | |
Since February, over 50 volunteer faculty throughout the FMEC region have been reviewing program proposals for the 2025 Annual Meeting. In April, the FMEC Planning Committee Coordinators reviewed their scores and comments on over 300 submissions and approved them for presentation. Thank you to the many reviewers, and a special thanks to the Coordinators who give a substantial amount of their time to making this happen: Bode Adebambo, MD; Dennis Gingrich, MD; Robert Motley, MD; Heather Paladine, MD; Fnu Rajesh, MD; and Martha Seagrave, PA-C, RN.
Acceptance emails for workshops, seminars, lecture discussions and other sessions are being sent out now. If you submitted a session proposal in February, watch your email, and contact Lisa Schwieterman at lisa.schwieterman@fmec.net if you have any questions.
| | More FMEC Annual Meeting Information | | In April, FMEC staff held a short overview of registration processes and other information for the FMEC 2025 Annual Meeting for Coordinators and other GME Administrators. The video recording and slides are posted for those who missed it. | |
Oral Health Project -
Free Meeting Registrations
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Last chance to join the FMEC oral health learning network and receive 2 free registrations to the FMEC Annual Meeting!
This week, the FMEC kicked off its Medical-Dental Integration for Veterans in Family Medicine Training project with an excellent webinar, presented by Elizabeth Alpert, DDS, MPH, Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine. The presentation was a new curriculum developed by Dr. Alpert, Dr. Hugh Silk of UMass, and 8 other dental and primary care experts. It taught family medicine faculty and residents about the burden of oral disease among veterans, oral-systemic health considerations, how military subpopulations do (or do not) access care, and identification and management of dental problems in primary care.
Join the FMEC’s Performance Improvement/Continuing Medical Education (PICME) project now, and your family medicine residency will receive 2 free registrations to the FMEC Annual Meeting (2025 or 2026) upon completion. The project will run May-July 2025, and components include viewing the above webinar and QI training; conducting a practice/training assessment and community resource map; brainstorming on ways to better integrate oral health and support veterans in both clinic and training; and screening patients to determine veteran status and dental needs. The project is approved for 20.00 Performance Improvement AAFP Prescribed Credits/Performance Improvement points for the ABFM Family Medicine Certification program for each physician who completes it. All the faculty and residents at your program can join, or just those who are interested.
Learn more about this project in the project agreement, and reach out to Rebecca Bouck at rebecca.bouck@fmec.net with questions or to join. And please answer our question of the month below!
| | Pick a topic below you are most interested in learning about in regard to veterans/oral health. | | | | Joining this or other FMEC learning collaboratives helps you meet the ACGME’s residency learning network requirements! | | Benefits of FMEC Partnership | | |
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 on the 2025 Annual Meeting!
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.
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Call for Volunteers for Residency Learning Network Project!
The FMEC was honored to receive a seed programming grant from the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) for its project, FMEC Learning Networks: Collaborating to Accelerate Innovations. Even before ACGME requirements, the FMEC was a leader in creating residency learning networks and collaboratives. The ABFM grant funding will help the FMEC formalize and advance its work over the next three years. We are seeking volunteers who want to help shape and lead residency learning networks! You will gain skills and experience, help identify issues and topics for collaborative work across residencies, and more. Please contact Scott Allen at scott.allen@fmec.net for more information. In the meantime, read more about FMEC’s past and current learning networks at our new FMEC Residency Learning Networks
“A Return to Healing” published by FMEC Leader
FMEC leader, Dr. Alan Roth, from longtime FMEC Partner Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, and his co-author Andy Lazris, MD, CMD have just published A Return to Healing: Flexner, Osler, and How American Medicine Went Astray. The book reveals how, over time, healthcare has shifted from a focus on individual patients to an industrialized system dominated by protocols, pharmaceutical interests, and the measure-diagnose-fix approach. Through compelling research and patient stories, the book empowers readers to understand the roots of modern medicine’s challenges. Congratulations Dr. Roth and Dr. Lazris! For more information, visit A Return to Healing.
PC4AA Event on June 3, 2025
The next Primary Care for All Americans (PC4AA) Teach-In/Learn-In event will be held on Tuesday, June 3, 2025 from 8:30-9:30pm EDT. Queens PC4AA workgroup leader, Gabrielle Yarru, MD, will present “How to Invite Policy Makers to Help Bring Primary Care to Everyone.” See the LinkedIn post for more information, and register at https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/27jmdm5.
| | Help Introduce Students to Family Medicine | | Students love the FMEC meeting! | | "I matched into my top program in Family Medicine! I am so thankful for the FMEC conferences. I was able to further solidify my connections with my program at the residency fair as well as network with other programs on my list which made the ranking process much easier." Drexel University College of Medicine student, 2024 scholarship recipient | | |
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.
Help us bring over 300 students to the 2025 Annual Meeting in Cleveland! Donors (individuals, residency programs, medical staff, etc.) are recognized on the FMEC website and on signs and slides at the meeting.
| | FMEC Annual Meeting – Key Dates | | |
July 1 - Call for Poster Submissions Closes
July 14 – Registration Early Bird Deadline
August 8 - Last day for Residency Fair and Exhibitor Registration
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; onsite registration only after this date
September 17 – Onsite Registration Opens; individuals only
September 18-20 – FMEC Annual Meeting
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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.
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.
- 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
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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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Jan. 29 – Feb. 1, 2026 – STFM Conference on Medical Student Education, Charlotte, NC
- Feb. 25-28, 2026 – ADFM Annual Conference, Orlando, FL
- Feb 19-21, 2026 – ACGME Annual Educational Conference, San Diego, CA
- Mar. 3-6, 2026 – AAFP Residency Leadership Summitt, Dallas, TX
- Apr. 15-19, 2026 – ACOFP Annual Convention, Orlando, FL
- May 1-5, 2026 – STFM Annual Spring Conference, New Orleans, LA
- Aug. 31 – Sep. 2, 2026 – STFM Conference on Practice and Quality Improvement
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Sep. 24-26, 2026 – FMEC Annual Meeting, Atlantic City, NJ
- (Tentative) Sep. 9-11, 2027 – FMEC Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD
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