FMEC 2025 Annual Meeting Closes with AI Talk, Rock and Roll Hall Celebration

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FMEC Members and Friends:

Whether you are with us Cleveland or not, please enjoy this email,

which has opportunities for everyone in the FMEC region!

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Cardi-OH is an Annual Meeting sponsor and offers excellent tools for your residents and faculty! Please show them support by visiting their exhibit table and the above website to learn more.

Is AI Essential in Medicine?

This afternoon, Dr. Louito Edje will present “You Can’t Spell AIR Without AI: How Artificial Intelligence is Essential for Living, Working, and Learning in Medicine.” Dr. Edje is chair of the family medicine review committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, former chair of the nominating committee of the American Medical Association’s Council on Medical Education and a member of its executive committee.

We are looking forward to her timely talk!

Congratulations to our 2025 Award Winners!

Congratulations! The Annual Meeting includes the presentations of our awards for faculty leadership, creative writing, and more. Read our news release about this year’s winners, and see the full awards booklet including the prose, poetry and prose-poem submissions on the FMEC awards website.

FMEC has a Challenge for You

For over 30 years, the FMEC has brought medical students to the Annual Meeting on scholarship. They present posters, meet residents and family medicine leaders from around the region, and learn about family medicine residencies at the Residency Fair. Medical students first attended the FMEC Annual Meeting in 1992, through an initiative started by Dr. Nik Zervanos. Over the last 20 years, the FMEC has provided more than 7,000 scholarships.

At the plenary session last night, FMEC Immediate Past President Dr. Leon McCrea announced that the FMEC Board of Trustees, along with our Past Presidents and Board members, pledged $20,000 to support scholarships over the next year. Please help match the amount pledged by the FMEC leadership and donate to support the Nik Zervanos, MD Student Scholarship Fund. To donate, visit the FMEC student scholarship website.