Web-Based Forum on Advocacy Scheduled to Air Sept. 18

Medical students in family medicine interest groups, or FMIGs, and their faculty advisers who are interested in learning more about effective advocacy are invited to register for the AAFP/AAFP Foundation Web-based Educational Forum on Advocacy presented by self-styled advocacy guru Stephanie Vance.

The interactive, multimedia webinar will air at 2 p.m. CDT on Sept. 18.

Medical students who participate in the webinar will learn what family medicine organizations, including the Academy, are doing to effect health care reform and how FMIGs can advocate about this and other health policy issues at the local level.

Vance is the author of Government by the People: How to Communicate with Congress. She also is co-founder of Advocacy Associates in Washington, D.C, and has more than 15 years of experience in Congressional affairs, having worked in a prominent D.C. law firm, lobbied for National Public Radio and worked in congressional offices as legislative director and staff director.

FMIGs that participate in the webinar can expect to learn about or take part in:

Visit the Virtual FMIG Web page to learn more about the webinar and to register. FMIGs are encouraged to take advantage of the FMIG Funding Initiative to participate in the webinar.