2024 AAFP National Conference
Suggested Topics

Based on attendee feedback, resident and student suggested topics include:

Career

  • Advocacy
    • Advocating In and For Communities
    • Health Care Policy and Economics
    • Health Care Reform
    • Lobbying
  • Career Exploration
    • Academic Medicine
    • A Week in the Life of a Family Physician
    • Enhancing the Educational Path to Family Medicine
    • Global Health
    • Rural Medicine
    • Urban Medicine
  • Career Planning/Employment Basics
    • Contract Negotiations
    • CV Preparation
    • Interviewing
  • Exam Prep: USMLE/COMLEX-USA
  • Financial Aspects of Being a Family Physician
  • Leadership
    • Conflict Resolution
    • Delegation
    • Integrative Problem Solving
  • Media Training/Social Media
  • Mentorship/Finding Mentors
  • Organized Medicine
  • Personal Finance
    • Budgeting
    • Debt Management
    • Finding Financial Support
    • Tax/Retirement Planning
  • Physician Well-Being
  • Research
    • Clinical Research
    • Community-Based Participatory Research
    • Research Skills
  • Scope of Practice
  • Specialty Choice
  • Transitioning into Residency/Practice
    • Fellowships
    • First-Year Resident Survival
    • Residency Selection
  • Value of Primary Care
  • Values-Driven Professionalism
  • Workforce Development
  • Workforce Diversity/URiM Support
  • Workforce Projections and the Need for Family Medicine
  • Work/Life Balance

Clinical

  • Addiction Medicine
  • Behavioral Health
  • Bone and Joint Conditions
  • Cancer
  • Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Chronic Disease Management/Complex Care
  • Dermatology
  • Disaster Preparedness and Recovery
  • Doctor-Patient Relationships
    • Communication Skills
    • Continuity of Care
    • Patient-Centered Care
  • Emergency and Urgent Care
  • Endocrine
  • Geriatrics
  • Hospital/Inpatient Medicine
  • Infectious Disease
  • Integrative Medicine
  • LGBTQI+  Health
  • Lifestyle Medicine
  • Medical Aid in Dying
  • Medical Marijuana
  • Mental Health
  • Neurologic Conditions
  • Occupational Medicine
  • Osteopathic Medicine
  • Osteopathic Techniques
  • Outpatient Procedures
  • Pain Management
  • Palliative Care
  • Pediatrics
  • Pregnancy Care
  • Refugee and Migrant Health
  • Remote Monitoring (Cardiac, INR, Continuous Glucose Monitoring)
  • Reproductive Health and Gynecologic Care
  • Respiratory Conditions
  • Sports Medicine/Musculoskeletal
  • Telehealth/Telemedicine
  • Trauma-Informed Care
  • Wound Care

Practice

  • Coding
  • Community Medicine
  • Digital Health
  • Direct Primary Care (DPC)
  • Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs)
  • Health Equity
  • Health Promotion
  • Health Technology/New Technology in Medicine
  • Home-Based Primary Care
  • Independent Solo/Small Group Practice
  • Information Systems
  • Interdisciplinary Teams
  • Locum Tenens
  • Medical Legal
     
  • Models of Health Care Delivery
    • Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)
    • Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH)
    • Value-Based Care (VBC)
  • Office Design
  • Organizational Change/Change Management
  • Population Health
  • Practice Finance
  • Public Health
  • Quality Improvement
  • Social Justice
  • Systems-Based Practice
  • Teaching Health Centers (THCs)
     

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