Emerging Leaders Fellowship

The yearlong Emerging Leaders Fellowship offers training, tools, and support for new faculty and those who are transitioning to leadership roles. Participation in all fellowship activities including in-person workshops is required for graduation.

Underrepresented in Medicine Scholarship: The STFM Foundation is offering scholarships to cover the fellowship registration fee for two underrepresented in medicine participants. See application form for details.

Benefits

STFM’s Emerging Leaders Fellowship provides essential leadership training to family medicine educators. You'll:

Learn critical leadership skills.
Take on a leadership role right from the beginning of the program.
Lead a team in a project and present on your leadership experience

Get connected to family medicine leaders who will share tips on motivating others and handling difficult people and situations.
Attend the STFM Annual Spring Conference 2 years in a row. Nothing tops this conference for networking, exposure, and presentation experience.

March:

Program acceptance notifications sent out

May:

Attendance at the STFM Annual Spring Conference
Preconference workshop on leadership
Leadership labs

Summer and Fall:

Leadership Practicum: gain valuable experience while leading a group to complete important work
Participate in leadership conference calls

Summer:

Attend a mid-year workshop
Participate in Peer Synergy Groups

Spring:

Lead your team to completion
Prepare your presentations for Annual Spring Conference

May:

Attend STFM Annual Spring Conference, graduation, and wrap-up meeting
Present your poster at the STFM Annual Spring Conference

The registration fee for the Emerging Leaders Fellowship is $3,030. This covers the session fee, plus registration fees for two STFM Annual Spring Conferences. Participants pay travel expenses.

Applicants must be current STFM members. If you're not a member and you're interested in the fellowship, you can join STFM online.

Application deadline is November 2, 2021.

Download the application (PDF).

Email your materials as a single PDF to Kim Sevedge at ksevedge@stfm.org.
For questions about the application or fellowship contact Melissa Abuel at mabuel@stfm.org.