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The best education for family medicine residency program teams
You’re focused on providing the best medical training to your family medicine residents. That’s the only reason you need to attend the 2026 Residency Leadership Summit (RLS), an event for MDs and DOs who lead family medicine residency programs. But RLS offers other reasons to attend. It’s the place to review ACGME requirements, learn best practices, find new ideas and improve your program.
Whether you’re a residency program director, faculty or administrator, you’ll find education that supports your residency program goals. You’ll also interact with people who understand the challenges of educating the next generation of family physicians.
Every resident will need help: Encourage them to ask for it.
— AAFP Voices blog
Not sure about RLS yet?
Experience a piece of RLS with Winston Liaw, MD, MPH, who shared how you can adapt your teaching to the technology. It’s a great example of the education you can expect.
“All of it is relevant, regardless of whether urban or rural, university or community hospital, big program or small program.” — Steven House, MD, program director
Reasons to Attend RLS
It’s the only event for fam med residencies
RLS supports the unique needs of family medicine residency programs.
We offer specialized training
Every session is focused on developing your team and training your residents.
You can talk to peers who understand your challenges
This is your chance to interact with other residency programs.
There’s custom education for every role
You'll find content to help all roles within your residency program.
We’ll review the latest ACGME guidance
We'll help your program implement ACGME requirements.
A nationwide community of family medicine residency program leaders comes together every March for actionable and inspiring ideas, program updates and networking opportunities.
AAFP’s RLS offers access to practical strategies created exclusively for family medicine residencies and leverages shared experience to build your team’s expertise and connections. Sessions are designed to inspire, support and empower your program plus understand and maintain compliance with evolving graduate medical education accreditation standards.
Amenities includes:
- Outdoor pool
- Fitness center
- Free wireless internet
- Business center
- Restaurant and coffee shop
- 50% discount off self parking
Interact with more than 1,300 family physicians and program coordinators
You’ll have the unique opportunity to showcase your brand and product to a highly engaged audience when you become an RLS exhibitor or sponsor. Our event attendees – physicians who oversee the education of family medicine residents – are excited to learn about new products, services and educational resources that can help them improve their residency programs.
We invite you to be a part of this exceptional experience and connect with the leaders shaping the future of family medicine. Interested? Complete the form and we’ll contact you soon!
The Residency Leadership Summit is managed by the AAFP. The Planning Committee is made up of representatives from the following organizations: the AAFP Commission on Education (AAFP CoE), the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP), the Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM), the Association of Family Medicine Administration (AFMA), the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors (AFMRD), the Residency Program Solutions Panel of Consultants (RPS), and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM).
2026 Planning Committee:
Committee Chair
Karen Mitchell, MD, FAAFP
Vice President, National Residency & Academic Partnerships, Leawood, KS
AAFP Commission on Education (AAFP CoE)
Matthew Allen Adkins, DO, FAAFP, AAHIVS
Associate Program Director, Grant Family Medicine, Columbus, OH
American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM)
Wendy Barr, MD, MPH, MSCE, FAAFP
Family Physician, One Medical
Distinguished Scholar, ABFM
Associate Professor at UMass Chan Medical School and Tufts School of Medicine
American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP)
Yui Sugiura, DO, MPH
Associate Program Director & Director of Osteopathic Education
McKeesport, PA
Association of Family Medicine Administration (AFMA)
Heather Hawkins, C-TAGME
GME Program Supervisor, Wilmington, NC
Ashley McDonald BA, C-TAGME
Program/Institutional Manager, Indiana, PA
Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM)
M. Rebecca Hoffman, MD, MSPH, FAAFP
Associate Chair, Research
Residency Program Director, Alton, IL
Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors (AFMRD)
Donald Raj Woolever, MD
Program Director, Portsmouth, NH
Residency Program Solutions Panel of Consultants (RPS)
Alan B. Douglass, MD FAAFP
Professor and former Program Director, Denver, CO
Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM)
Ecler E. Jaqua, MD, MBA, FAAFP, AGSF, FACLM, DipABOM, AAHIVS
Associate Professor, Family and Geriatric Medicine
Program Director, OPTI-West SARH Family Medicine Residency
Medical Director, SARH Center of Aging , Upland, CA
AAFP Residency Initiatives
Amy Mulligan Kennedy
AAFP Manager, Resident Initiatives
Leawood, KS