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2026 Workshop Call for Proposals
The application submission process has closed.
Notifications will be sent to all submitters in Spring 2026.
The FUTURE Planning Committee is seeking educational programming ideas for allopathic and osteopathic students and residents that showcase the broad scope of family medicine in any of the categories below.
Attendees are interested in interactive formats, innovative ways of learning about family medicine, and topics they may not generally be exposed to as part of their medical school or residency training.
Workshops will focus on these content tracks:
- Career Planning
- Skills and Research
- Policy and Advocacy
View topics suggested by attendees within each track.
Sessions should include no more than four total presenters.
Please note that workshops may not be used as a forum for advertising specific programs, products, or services.
Based on attendee feedback, resident and student suggested topics include:
- Career Exploration
- Academic Medicine
- A Week in the Life of a Family Physician
- Enhancing the Educational Path to Family Medicine
- Global Health
- Rural Medicine
- Street Medicine
- Career Planning/Employment Basics
- Contract Negotiations
- CV Preparation
- Interviewing
- Direct Primary Care (DPC)
- Exam Prep: USMLE/COMLEX-USA
- Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs)
- Financial Aspects of Being a Family Physician
- Independent Solo/Small Group Practice
- Leadership
- Conflict Resolution
- Delegation
- Integrative Problem Solving
- Organizational Change/Change Management
- Locum Tenens
- Media Training/Social Media
- Mentorship/Finding Mentors
- Models of Health Care Delivery
- Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)
- Value-Based Care (VBC)
- Office Design
- Organized Medicine
- Personal Finance
- Budgeting
- Debt Management
- Finding Financial Support
- Tax/Retirement Planning
- Physician Well-being
- Practice Finance
- Public Health
- Scope of Practice
- Specialty Choice
- Teaching Health Centers (THCs)
- Team-based Care
- Transitioning into Residency/Practice
- Fellowships
- First-Year Resident Survival
- Residency Selection
- Values-driven professionalism
- Work/Life Balance
- Addiction Medicine
- Artificial Intelligence
- Behavioral Health
- Bone and Joint Conditions
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular Medicine
- Chronic Disease Management/Complex Care
- Coding
- Dermatology
- Digital Health
- Disaster Preparedness and Recovery
- Doctor-Patient Relationships
- Communication Skills
- Continuity of Care
- Patient-Centered Care
- Emergency and Urgent Care
- Endocrine
- Geriatrics
- Health Technology/New Technology in Medicine
- Hospital/Inpatient Medicine
- Infectious Disease
- Information Systems
- Integrative Medicine
- LGBTQI+ Health
- Lifestyle Medicine
- Medical Aid in Dying
- Medical Marijuana
- Mental Health
- Neurologic Conditions
- Occupational Medicine
- Osteopathic Techniques
- Outpatient Procedures
- Pain Management
- Palliative Care
- Pediatrics
- Point-of-Care Ultrasound
- Pregnancy Care
- Quality Improvement
- Refugee and Migrant Health
- Remote Monitoring (Cardiac, INR, Continuous Glucose Monitoring)
- Reproductive Health and Gynecologic Care
- Research
- Clinical Research
- Community-based Participatory Research
- Research Skills
- Respiratory Conditions
- Sports Medicine/Musculoskeletal
- Telehealth/Telemedicine
- Trauma-Informed Care
- Wound Care
- Advocating In and For Communities
- Community Medicine
- Health Care Policy and Economics
- Health Care Reform
- Health Equity
- Lobbying
- Patient Advocacy
- Population Health
- Social Justice
- Systems-Based Practice
- Value of Primary Care
- Workforce Development
- Workforce Diversity/URiM Support
- Workforce Projections and the Need for Family Medicine
The FUTURE Conference Planning Committee will evaluate each workshop proposal on the following:
- Value of topic to residents and medical students
- Relevance to family medicine
- Quality of learning objectives
- Use of learning format/tools to encourage audience interaction
- Demonstration of evidence-based medicine
- Speaker credentials
- Past speaker ratings (if applicable)
- Overall quality of proposal
- Alignment with conference programming goals
Questions?
Email Rachel Larsen.
