AAFP communities and forums for family medicine residents
Residency provides great opportunities to connect with peers, share knowledge and insights, and become an advocate for family medicine. The AAFP offers communities and opportunities to help family medicine residents collaborate, learn, grow and lead.
Member interest groups (MIGs)
Bringing members together around areas of shared professional interest, the AAFP’s member interest groups (MIGs) help residents, as well as students and physicians, find their family within family medicine.
With groups ranging from practice models to rural and wilderness medicine, obstetrics to end-of-life care, and how to optimize technology in clinical practice, MIGs offer plentiful opportunities to connect with peers and mentors, advance new ideas and pursue leadership positions.
Each MIG includes an online community to help you connect, collaborate and network with colleagues across family medicine.
Advocacy Ambassadors program
If you’re passionate about the role of policy in shaping family medicine’s future, the Advocacy Ambassadors program gives you a seat at the table in the nation’s capital. The program pairs family physicians with elected leaders in Congress who support the AAFP’s legislative priorities.
You’ll get the opportunity to build relationships with Congress members and their staffs, engage with your patients, peers and the public about the AAFP’s policy goals, and represent the Academy at every step.
Family Medicine Champions
Here’s a chance to advocate for our specialty by guiding future physicians toward careers in family medicine. Family Medicine Champions is a free, online training program that you can take at your own pace. With advice from experts, you’ll learn to showcase the depth of family medicine and talk with pre-med students, medical students and their advisors about what the specialty means for patient care, now and into the future.
Family Medicine Champions helps you strengthen your communication skills, connect with peers, students, and faculty, and contribute to the growth and diversification of the family medicine workforce.
