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2025 Residency Leadership Summit
Kansas City Marriott Downtown
Kansas City, MO
Tuesday, March 25—Thursday, March 27, 2025
Connect With Your Peers at the Residency Leadership Summit in 2025
Welcome to your hub for all things Residency Leadership Summit. RLS is the only national event for both MDs and DOs that focuses solely on the needs of family medicine residency programs. RLS is also the place to prepare for the implementation of ACGME requirements, learn best practices, share with peers, and improve the overall quality of your program.
So, don’t miss your opportunity to learn from and connect with family medicine residency programs from across the nation at this event. No matter your residency program role—director, faculty, or administrator—you can find information exclusively for family medicine residencies that supports both program and staff development.
Top 4 Reasons to Attend RLS
Early Bird
$645*
After Early Bird
$745
*Early bird pricing ends Feb. 21, 2025
Join a nationwide community of residency program leaders—program directors, faculty, and administrators—at the upcoming Residency Leadership Summit. At this year’s LIVE event, we’re offering actionable, inspiring ideas; key program updates; and vital networking opportunities that your team has come to expect and value over the years.
Get access to practical strategies created exclusively for family medicine residencies and leverage shared experience to further build your team’s expertise and connections. Sessions are designed to inspire, support, and empower your program to understand and maintain compliance with evolving graduate medical education accreditation standards.
Main Stage
In addition to programming from the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), Main Stage presentations will include updates from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s Review Committee for Family Medicine (ACGME RC-FM), American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), and the AAFP Government Relations team.
Main Stage presentations will cover Engaging Residents in Growth Mindset and Artificial Intelligence in Family Medicine Education: The Critical Role of Residency Educators.
RAD Workshop: Designed for administrator and coordinator attendees that address ACGME updates, innovative concepts for your role, and a host of table topics. Additional registration fees apply.
Elevate Your Program: ABFM SOAR and RPS Preconference Workshop:
Ready to elevate your residency? Looking to meet the Family Medicine Outcomes for your residents? Then this RLS preconference session is for you!
The Strengthening Outcomes and Assessment in Residency (SOAR) Community of Practice, sponsored by the AFMRD and ABFM Foundation, offers a unique opportunity to enhance your residency program. By participating, you will be part of the SOAR Learning Network to explore innovative residency designs based on data, measurements, and achieving optimal training outcomes. You will connect with fellow family medicine residency leaders in a peer-to-peer sharing format to leverage data available to your program and to the community to inform structural, curricular and care delivery improvements. This allows you to leverage GME outcomes as you consider your residency design.
After the SOAR session (lunch included!), join us for an exclusive two-hour session with seasoned consultants from Residency Program Solutions (RPS). You’ll gain expert guidance from experienced residency program directors, like you, who truly understand the unique challenges you face in training residents, whether new or established programs. Learn strategies to meet and exceed ACGME requirements, setting your program apart. This highly interactive portion of the RLS preconference offers invaluable insights and answers to your pressing questions, while also providing a chance to connect with other residency leaders and expand your professional network. Additional registration fees apply
Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your program and elevate resident training. Sign up today!
Breakfast Discussion Tables offer valuable networking and resource sharing opportunities for attendees. If you are interested in hosting a topic at a Breakfast Discussion Table, please fill out the Discussion Topic Form by January 10th.
Individuals whose topics are selected will be notified in January 2025.
Want more? Too many important workshop options at RLS but not enough time? Take RLS home with you through RLS On Demand designed to help you graduate strong new physicians and strengthen the family medicine specialty. This add-on registration option gives you On Demand access to three of the event’s most anticipated workshops + six bonus CME workshops not offered at RLS. You will be able to access RLS On Demand, starting March 27, 2025, immediately after RLS.
Topics include:
- Recruitment
- Coaching
- GME Funding
- Assessment
- And more!
Projected credit hours are around 6-8 hours.
Add-on during registration process to get 20% off.
Kansas City Marriott Downtown
200 West 12th Street
Kansas City, MO 64105
Reservation Line: (816) 421-6800 or 1-888-236-2427
Room block dates are Saturday, March 22—29, 2025 at the group rate of $205+ current tax rate and hotel fees.
Amenities includes:
- Fitness center/health club
- Indoor pool
- Parking/Valet
- Free wireless internet
- Two blocks from streetcar route and the Power and Light Entertainment District
**Group rate is only available until February 21, 2025.
Hotel Phillips Kansas City
Overflow hotel
106 West 12th Street
Kansas City, MO 64105
Room block dates are Saturday, March 22—29, 2025 at the group rates ranging from $129—$209 + current tax rate and hotel fees.
Amenities includes:
- Fitness center
- Free wireless internet
- Directly across the street from Marriott Hotel (where meeting is taking place)
**Group rate is only available until February 21, 2025.
Join over 1,200 family physicians and care teams dedicated to residency programs, gathering to network with peers, enhance leadership skills, and participate in specialized training to advance resident development. By becoming an exhibitor or sponsor at this event, you’ll have the unique opportunity to showcase your brand or product to a highly engaged audience. Our attendees are actively seeking new products, services, and educational resources to bring back to 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. For more information contact us today!
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).
2025 Planning Committee:
Committee Chair
Karen Mitchell, MD, FAAFP
Vice President, Student & Resident Initiatives, Leawood, KS
AAFP Commission on Education (AAFP CoE)
Joyce Robert, MD, FAAFP
Founding Program Director, Lewes, DE
American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM)
Wendy Barr, MD, MPH, MSCE, FAAFP
Associate Dean of Education, Burlington, MA
American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP)
Franklin Berkey, DO, FAAFP
Associate Program Director & Director of Osteopathic Education,
State College, PA
Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM)
Curtis Galke, DO, FAAFP
Chair, Fort Worth, TX
Association of Family Medicine Administration (AFMA)
Emmalyn Dyer, C-TAGME
Senior Program Coordinator, Gainesville, GA
Heather Hawkins
Program Coordinator, Wilmington, NC
Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors (AFMRD)
Donald Raj Woolever, MD
Program Director, Portsmouth, NH
Residency Program Solutions Panel of Consultants (RPS)
Hobart Lee, MD, FAAFP
Program Director, Loma Linda, CA
Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM)
Karl T. Clebak, MD, MHA, FAAFP
Program Director, Hershey, PA
Hear What Past Attendees Have to Say
“My favorite part of RLS was spending quality time with my own program director!”
— Jon Neher, APD
“The sessions were diverse and overall, very good.”
— Rade N Pejic, MD, program director/associate professor of family medicine
“My favorite part of RLS was the pool of experience in the room. I wish I could just tap into it at will.”
— Eric Samonte, MD, MBA, program director
“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