Main Stage & Featured Presenters
Get Inspired in Main Stage Sessions
Plan your day around engaging Main Stage sessions from reputable leaders in family medicine. You’ll leave feeling energized and ready to explore a dynamic career in family medicine—one that can take you anywhere.
More than Just Medicine
Family medicine encompasses every piece of health care—from addressing the needs of your community to spurring change at a global level. It’s the specialty that makes the largest impact. We’ve invited nationally known health care leaders to be a part of our Main Stage sessions to inspire and inform you about every piece of family medicine. Whatever your future in medicine holds, it begins here.
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SESSIONS
Sounding the Alarm:
Strategies for Medical Students to Champion Anti-Racism Advocacy
Thursday l July 29, 2021 l 2 p.m.– 3 p.m.
Every year, incoming medical students take the Hippocratic Oath and pledge that they: "will be an advocate for patients in need and strive for justice in the care of the sick." Medical students are absolutely essential to the success of these advocacy efforts. During this Main Stage presentation, dive deep into strategies for medical students to become front and center in advocacy efforts. Leave feeling confident about championing anti-racism advocacy, embracing a common agenda, establishing formal structures, engaging affinity groups and allies, endorsing legislative advocacy; encouraging curricular reform, and enriching the pipeline.
Adventure Awaits:
Your Career in Family Medicine
Friday l July 30, 2021 l 2 p.m.– 3 p.m.
Continuing the tradition of storytelling at National Conference, this year's Main Stage features a new panel of family medicine voices who will share their diverse experiences that demonstrate leadership, resilience and ingenuity in this dynamic specialty to inspire students and residents to chart their own adventure.
Cleveland Piggott, MD
Daniel Lewis, MD
Alexa Mieses Malchuk, MD
Carla Ainsworth, MD
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