What is FMX?

Where the best family medicine education meets genuine connection.

AAFPs 2025 FMX conference, main stage.

A vibrant space to grow in family medicine

Family Medicine Experience—known as FMX—is the one place built entirely around your reality as a family physician. It brings breadth across family medicine, offering you comprehensive CME, practical clinical updates, and genuine connections that last for years. This is where thousands of people who understand come together to figure out what’s working in family medicine—and remind each other why this work matters.

It’s the only professional conference for the family medicine specialty in the U.S. But we don’t assume that’s the only selling point. Family medicine is a diverse specialty, with physicians who specialize in multiple areas. At FMX, we show up with what you need in every aspect of your professional life.

Your family medicine career asks a lot of you. We make sure FMX gives something back to you.

FMX offers CME you need…and more

At FMX, you choose what to focus on and how to connect. It’s not just generic CME to complete your credits. We’re answering your needs as a family physician. But we also recognize that your professional life and your practice aren't like anyone else—whether you're in rural medicine, direct primary care, or full-spectrum family practice. This is why you can build your own experience.

Choose the sessions that match your reality. Focus on the challenges you're facing. This is CME that earns credits while solving your real problems. But just as important? The people. FMX brings together everyone from residents just starting out to physicians who've been in the trenches for decades. Where honest conversations happen in the hallways. Where you realize you're not the only one struggling with a diagnostic dilemma, a system failure, a moment of doubt. Where the rural doc and the hospitalist and the new graduate all find their people.

It’s your time to focus on your career. And no matter where you are on your journey, this conference understands and supports you.

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Something for every career stage

The education at FMX is framed around what we know is important to where you are in your family medicine career.

Residents

You’re preparing for a career in family medicine. FMX gives you the real talk—the clinical foundations you need and the honest conversations about what practice looks like.

New physicians

The transition from residency to practice can be daunting. Here’s where you find physicians who remember that feeling and practical strategies for managing the change.

Mid-career physicians

You’re holding so much together, from patient care to leadership roles. FMX offers the clinical updates you need and management strategies that work.

Experienced physicians

Health care has transformed around you. New technology, new pressures. FMX helps you stay adaptable while honoring the wisdom you bring to a specialty.

Care team members

You’re an essential part of every practice. You’ll find education that helps you navigate operational challenges, support culture changes and support patients.

FMX brings together experienced physicians who have navigated system changes, payment challenges and feelings of burnout with newer physicians and residents who have fresh perspectives on efficiency, technology integration and work-life boundaries.

No matter what career stage you’re in, FMX is your chance to reconnect to what you love about this profession.

Do FMX your way

AAFPs 2025 FMX conference, combo happy hours.

FMX offers camaraderie that reminds you you’re not alone.

FMX is what you need it to be—there’s no standard way to attend. You define your experience.

With more than 250 sessions with CME credits available, the foundation of this conference is CME. You’ll build a baseline schedule to secure your credits, then add other things you need. It’s flexible. You can attend every day, hit as many sessions as possible, and enjoy every networking opportunity. Or you can select days to get critical CME, hit The Xchange for a few minutes and chat with friends in the hallway.

Different ways to experience FMX could look like:

  • You’re coming for the CME and you’re not prioritizing networking.

  • You’re excited to find people with similar challenges in sessions you attend and have conversations with them.

  • You’re planning to spend time in The Xchange because you enjoy exploring new products and technology for your practice.

  • You’re feeling burned-out or overwhelmed, so you’re looking for ways to reenergize.

Energy isn’t just a buzzword when it comes to explaining FMX. It’s a concept that helps us design spaces that offer high-energy exchanges alongside quieter reflection zones. You may want quick networking sessions and interactive formats, or appreciate time for deeper conversations. Those options can co-exist, because FMX isn’t just one thing. The best FMX experience for you is the one you create.

3 reasons FMX is your conference

  • You’ll get a break from daily pressures.

    For a few days, you don’t have to be everything to everyone. You get to focus on learning, on connecting. You’ll leave with the tools and energy to keep doing what you do best.

  • You’ll feel relieved you’re not alone.

    Whether you’re struggling with practice management, considering a career pivot, experiencing burnout or something else, you’ll find sessions that offer solutions and people who've lived these exact problems.

  • You can’t get this experience online.

    Online education has its benefits, but digital fatigue and isolation is real. FMX is about the relationships, mentorship across career stages, and being present with those who understand the unique pressures of family medicine.