Preconference Workshops

Thursday, January 28
8 am–5 pm

STFM Faculty Development Series Workshop III: Administrative and Management Skills for Academic Leadership

James Tysinger, PhD, workshop coordinator, University of Texas San Antonio Health Science Center

This workshop provides participants with instruction in key management skills including role definition, time management, meeting management, prioritization, team building, and negotiation. Through this interactive session, participants will learn how to defend the prioritization of personal and professional activities to achieve balance, discuss and implement effective team-building strategies, practice essential negotiating skills, apply key principles of time management, practice group decision making, and learn how to more effectively manage meetings.

Workshop Objectives:

  • Know how to defend the prioritization of personal and professional activities to achieve balance

  • Understand the essential elements of role definition

  • Discuss and implement effective team-building strategies

  • Practice essential negotiating skills

  • Apply key principles of time management

  • Practice group decision making in both small and large groups

  • Understand how to effectively manage meetings


(Additional Fee: $195;  Be sure to mark the appropriate space on the registration form to preregister.)


Noon-5 pm

FMIG Faculty Advisor Summit: The Building Blocks of Advocacy—Awareness, Activity and Advocates for Family Medicine

Cohosted by the AAFP FMIG Network and STFM. Co-conveners:  Amy McGaha, MD, AAFP Division of Medical Education, and Ashley DeVilbiss, MPA, AAFP FMIG Network, AAFP Division of Medical Education

STFM and AAFP invite FMIG faculty advisors to participate in this workshop specially designed to help faculty advisors learn how to increase student involvement through advocacy efforts and embrace a culture of reform.

Goals & Objectives:

  • Investigate the role of family medicine in teaching health policy awareness to medical students.

  • Understand the unique opportunities for FMIGs to engage students in advocacy activities.

  • Share knowledge of evidence-based interventions to increase student interest in Family Medicine and share knowledge about the data and trends of the FMIG network.

  • Access tools and resources that support FMIGs and student interest in a career in family medicine.

  • Share best practices of FMIGs, FM Departments and state chapters in student related advocacy activities.

  • Access FMIG Network and dialogue with other faculty advisors and collaborators.

  • Investigate collaborative partnerships that increase student interest and participation in FMIGs.


Questions? Contact Ashley DeVilbiss, AAFP, email: adevilbi@aafp.org or phone: 913-906-6000 ext 6722.

(No Fee; Travel Scholarships ($350) available for the first 50 Faculty Advisors that enroll; Enrollment for this workshop is limited to the room size–Faculty Advisors, Support Staff, Coordinators and others welcome. Please mark the appropriate space on the registration form  to preregister.)

1–5 pm    

STFM Faculty Development Series Workshop IV: Teaching One-on-One: What You Really Need to Know

William Shore, MD, workshop coordinator, University of California, San Francisco; John Delzell, MD, MSPH, Heidi Chumley, MD, University of Kansas Medical Center; Wayne Altman, MD, FAAFP, Tufts University

As clinician educators, we regularly confront challenges of how to maximize our teaching efforts in the context of busy outpatient clinical settings. In this workshop, you will explore the characteristics of learners and teachers and learn the microskills model of clinical teaching and how to give meaningful feedback. The goal of this workshop is to enhance participants’ ability to effectively teach a variety of learners in a clinical setting.  We will also include innovative methodologies for direct observation of learners in these clinical settings.

Workshop Objectives:

  • Describe the traits of effective teachers and their approach to today’s learners.

  • Discuss the 5-Step Microskills Model of Clinical Teaching.

  • Demonstrate the process of getting a commitment and providing for support.

  • Distinguish giving feedback from the process of evaluation.

  • Describe three levels of feedback and explain their effect on learners.

  • Demonstrate the ability to give both positive and negative feedback as required in the Microskills.

  • Discuss strategies for direct observation of learners in outpatient clinical settings.


(Additional Fee: $100;  Please mark the appropriate space on the registration form  to preregister.)