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October | 2025

Thank you to all the students, residents and faculty who joined us in Cleveland for the FMEC 2025 Annual Meeting! And special thanks to the 2025 Annual Meeting Host Committee as well as the FMEC Planning Committee who put the meeting together.

Keep Rockin’ and Rollin’ with an FMEC Discount

From now through November 23, being part of the FMEC gets you a 15% discount at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame store! Even if you weren’t able to attend the event, you can use the code FMEC15 to purchase t-shirts, vinyl and more. Visit https://shop.rockhall.com/ and start your holiday shopping now.

Congratulations to our 2025 Award Winners

Read about our 2025 award winners in the full awards booklet including the prose, poetry and prose-poem submissions on the FMEC awards website. The FMEC congratulates the winners and also thanks the many impressive candidates who submitted or were nominated for this year’s awards. A call for nominations for the 2026 awards will be released in the spring of 2026.

Residency Learning Networks

The FMEC received seed programming funds 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. Interested in joining? Have ideas for what FMEC learning networks might address? Complete this short survey to help us plan our Residency Learning Network projects (no commitment necessary): https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ResLearningNetworks.

Pennsylvania Providers: Join FMEC for November 7 Webinar

The FMEC is leading the Pennsylvania Maternal Health Collaborative, a new, multi-disciplinary group convening quarterly to learn about maternal mortality, for all racial and ethnic groups but particularly for Black women, and strategize on what can be done at the provider, community and state level. The next quarterly meeting will be held Friday, November 7 from 12:30pm-2pm Eastern, and the topic will be how fathers can support pregnancy and postnatal care, with speakers from Black Dads Matter, The Fatherhood Program at the Foundation for Delaware County, and The Dadvocates Initiative. To register, visit PAMHC November 7 Registration.

Learn About the IMPLICIT Network

Join a webinar for a comprehensive overview of the IMPLICIT Network, our two care models, and the benefits or becoming a member. Registration is not required; join this Microsoft Teams link (Meeting ID: 257 078 947 577 1, Passcode: rf9kw7vA) on November 18, 2025 from 4:30pm-5:30pm The IMPLICIT Network is a 50+ site, 12-state collaborative which has been highly engaged in supporting maternity care education in residency sites through its learning collaborative as well as through implementation of maternal health innovations that can be delivered in primary care settings. IMPLICIT’s helps providers implement two primary care models. Interconception Care (ICC) provides screening and interventions for birthing parents present at Well Child Visits (WCVs) 0-24 months including depression, tobacco use, contraception and multivitamin use. 4th Trimester Care (4TM) embeds an assessment for biomedical and psychosocial risks in the perinatal period including early postpartum care (< 21 days) and bridge from maternity care to primary care postpartum. You can find additional information on our new website, implicitnetwork.org or by emailing anna.fetterolf@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.

Be a 100 Million Mouths Campaign Champion

The Center for Integration of Primary Care and Oral Health (CIPCOH) and 100 Million Mouths Campaign are looking for family doctors from diverse backgrounds to apply to join our national network of oral health education champions. We are looking for applicants from Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Utah. Individuals that are chosen to be the state champion will be offered a financial stipend ($5,000 per year) for attending training and planning sessions and a small amount of money ($1,000) for supplies, stipends to engage patients in planning and teaching, and other costs. The total time commitment amounts to approximately 4-5 hours/month between January 2026, and January 2027. Training will consist of two half-day sessions, followed by monthly 1.5-hour group check-ins. If you are interested in learning more, or if someone you know wishes to submit an application, please visit our website which includes the application link and/or email Diana Rinker at diana.rinker@umassmed.edu. Applications for 2026 are due by Monday, November 24, 2025.

Submit Your Poems to NEOMED

Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) is accepting submissions for the 44th annual William Carlos Williams (WCW) poetry competition through December 31, 2025. Entries will be judged by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. The WCW competition will be awarding prizes in two categories: a medical student category, open to students enrolled in MD and DO programs in the US, Puerto Rico, or Canada, and a physician category, open to any rank of physician (MD or DO) at any career stage, from residency to retirement, in the US, Puerto Rico, or Canada. First-, second-, and third-place winners in each category will receive a cash prize and will be considered for publication in the Journal of Medical Humanities. Winning poets will be notified by March 1, 2026. For submission details, eligibility criteria, and to submit online, please visit NEOMED's William Carlos Williams poetry competition webpage. Contact wcw@neomed.edu with any questions or for additional information.

PracticeLink: Supporting Residents on the Journey to Their First Practice

Becoming a doctor is hard — finding your first job doesn’t have to be. PracticeLink is the trusted career resource and job board for physicians in training and beyond, proudly offering First Practice Fund™ scholarships to help residents prepare for life after training, along with free CV reviews, Lunch and Learn sessions for GME programs and the Surviving and Thriving in Residency podcast featuring real stories and career advice from physicians and experts. Visit PracticeLink.com to explore these free resources and for GME programming or scholarship details, contact Charles Lowry, Director of GME Relations at Charles.Lowry@practicelink.com.

Changes Coming to Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) Plan

With the passage of the most recent omnibus spending bill, student loan borrowers should prepare for some significant updates to the IDR system. These changes will not happen all at once—they’ll be introduced in stages over the next few years. The current IDR plan will stay available, though with some modifications. A new plan, Repayment Assistance Plan (RAP), will eventually take the place of the other IDR plans. Borrowers can continue with their current plan (except SAVE) until mid-2028. Changes will roll out gradually, and the exact effects on individual borrowers remain to be seen until full implementation. If you have questions or are unsure how upcoming changes might impact your loan repayment strategy, don’t hesitate to reach out to Navigate. The Navigate team is here to help break down your options and ensure you stay on track. Book a free session with a Student Loan Guide at Navigate and use this special link so Navigate knows we sent you: https://navigate.as.me/FMEC. 

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 2026 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.

The FMEC can “bundle” your invoices for Partnership dues, Residency Fair booths, and faculty and resident individual registrations. We can also invoice your program at specific times during the year, for instance if it’s easier for you to pay at the beginning of your fiscal year, or you have funds left at the end of the fiscal year to put toward next year. If you would like special handling of your payments to the FMEC, contact Shayla Rammel at shayla.rammel@fmec.net. 

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.

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.

• Nov. 21-25 – (NAPCRG) North American Primary Care Research Group Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA
•  Jan. 29 – Feb. 1, 2026 – STFM Conference on Medical Student Education, Charlotte, NC
• Feb 19-21, 2026 – ACGME Annual Educational Conference, San Diego, CA
• 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
• Jan. 29-Feb. 1 – STFM Conference on Medical Student Education, Charlotte, NC
• Feb. 25-28 – ADFM Annual Conference, Orlando, FL
• Feb. 19-21 – ACGME Annual Educational Conference, San Diego, CA
• Mar. 4-6 – AFMRD Residency Leadership Summit, Dallas, TX
• Apr. 1-5 – SNMA Annual Medical Education Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
• Apr. 15-19 – ACOFP Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL
• May 2-6 – STFM Annual Spring Conference, New Orleans, LA
• July 16-19 - DPC Summit, New Orleans, LA
• Jul. 30 – Aug. 1 - AAFP FUTURE Conference, Kansas City
• Aug. 31 – Sep. 2 – STFM Conference on Practice and Quality Improvement, Palm Desert, CA 
• Sep. 24-26, 2026 – FMEC Annual Meeting, Atlantic City, NJ
• Oct. 20-24– AAFP FMX, Nashville, TN
• Sep. 9-11, 2027 – FMEC Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD