Fellowships

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.

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 completion of a project and then present your results.
  • 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.

The STFM Foundation is offering scholarships to cover the fellowship registration fee for two underrepresented in medicine participants. Those interested in applying please refer to the fellowship application. Underrepresented in medicine is defined by the AAMC as "those racial and ethnic populations that are underrepresented in the medical profession relative to their numbers in the general population."

Application deadline is November 2, 2018. Email your materials to Melissa Abuel at mabuel@stfm.org. Download the application (PDF).

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

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Events

January 25, 2019—Q&A Webinar for the "Building Better Clinical Training Experiences" pilot project

Jan 31-Feb 03, 2019—Conference on Medical Student Education

Apr 27-May 1, 2019—Annual Spring Conference

 

 

Deadlines

January 26: Deadline to submit applications for CERA Program Directors Survey

February 15: Deadline to apply for the STFM Medical Editing Fellowship

February 22: Applications are due for the Building Better Clinical Training Experiences pilot project

March 15: Last day for submissions to the Annual Poetry and Prose Contest

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