Take a look at STFM's webinars on key skills for faculty and ways to use member resources. Develop the knowledge you need to thrive in your career in academic family medicine. Click on the tabs below to view webinar recordings and resources.
July 11, 2023 | Panelists: Annie Rutter, MD, MS, FAAFP; Santina Wheat, MD; Donald Raj Woolever, MD, FAAFP; Karen Mitchell, MD, FAAFP, with support from Ashley Bentley, MBA, CAE
Over the last several years AAMC has been piloting changes to the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS). These changes will be implemented for all applications submitted for the 2023-2024 application cycle. This joint webinar sponsored by STFM and the AAFP reviews the impact of these updates from all sides: applicant, medical school advisor, and program director.
Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:
Explain the three new elements of MyERAS: experiences, geographic preferences, and program signaling
Describe how applicants can share information with programs about their medical education journey
Optimize the use of geographic preferences and program signaling
The Residency Curriculum Resource - A Sustainable Approach to Scholarship
May 23, 2023 | Panelists: Tim Graham, MD, MHPE; Cari Brackett, PharmD; Scott Cordts, MD; Natascha Lautenschlaeger, MD; Alethea Turner, DO
This webinar, presented by the editors of the Family Medicine Residency Curriculum Resource, will explore how to make scholarship more approachable at your residency program.
Participants will have the opportunity to:
Learn more about scholarship in general and specifically through the lens of the ACGME’s scholarship requirements.
Learn how to make scholarship more approachable within the setting of their residency program.
Learn how to use the Residency Curriculum Resource to help create an appropriate environment that fosters scholarly activity.
Most states are facing a looming physician shortage. Medical schools and AAFP chapters have implemented numerous creative approaches to support the clinical training of medical students. One of those approaches is incentivizing teaching through income tax credits for uncompensated precepting.
During this panel presentation sponsored by STFM, find out how AAFP chapters have been involved in passing legislation in their states and whether tax incentives have made an impact on the shortage of clinical training sites.
Recognize and reward your preceptors while offering competency-based community faculty development. In this series of 3 free webinars, Amanda Kost, MD, will show you step-by-step how you can use the Teaching Physician website to sponsor PI credit for your community faculty.
Please note:Session 3 will broadcast July 8, 2021. Click the links to register.
The Win-Win #1: Identify Areas of Faculty Need Using Teaching Physician
March 8, 2021 | Panelists: Amanda Kost, MD, and Brian Hischier.
In this webinar, Amanda Kost, MD takes you through the first 3 steps of sponsoring ABFM Performance Improvement credit for your community faculty using the resources on stfm.org and the Community Faculty Self-Assessment tool on TeachingPhysician.org.
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
Describe steps for ABFM continuing certification for teaching quality improvement
Determine areas of high-development need for your community faculty
Create a plan for performance improvement data collection
The Win-Win #2: Build and Implement Faculty Development Using Teaching Physician
April 8, 2021 | Panelists: Amanda Kost, MD, and Brian Hischier.
In this webinar, Dr Kost takes you through the steps 4 and 5 of sponsoring ABFM Performance Improvement credit for your community faculty using the resources on Teaching Physician. You will learn how to collect self-assessment data using tools on Teaching Physician, how to find resources, and how to craft faculty development for three different cohort scenarios.
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
Use Teaching Physician to collect pre-development self-assessment data from community faculty
Use community faculty competencies to build faculty development experiences that support continuing certification
Discuss implementation considerations for a high-quality faculty development experience
The Win-Win #3: Build and Implement Faculty Development Using Teaching Physician
July 8, 2021 | Panelists: Amanda Kost, MD, and Brian Hischier.
In this webinar, Dr Kost takes you through final steps of sponsoring ABFM Performance Improvement credit for your community faculty using the resources on Teaching Physician. You will learn how to collect post-faculty development self-assessment data from your community faculty, as well as see how to submit that data to the ABFM. You'll also run through a scenario in which you are collecting data on multiple community faculty who are at different levels of experience.
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
Use Teaching Physician to collect post-faculty development self-assessment data from community faculty
Describe steps to submit data to the ABFM for continuing certification credit
Evaluate your experience providing competency-based community faculty development
Supporting Bedside Teaching Using the Family Medicine Residency Curriculum Resource
February 25, 2021 | Panelists: Timothy P. Graham, MD, MHPE, Cari Brackett, PharmD; Scott Cordts, MD; Nastascha Lautenschlaeger, MD; Alethea Turner, DO.
This webinar explores best practices for bedside teaching of family medicine residents, providing guidance, tips and tools for this endeavor. Find out how Just-In-Time Teaching curricula—newly available through the Family Medicine Residency Curriculum Resource—can be used in these "non-conference room" settings during inpatient rounds and in the ambulatory center.
The Family Medicine Residency Curriculum Resource is a collaborative effort between the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) and the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors (AFMRD.)
Mentoring Medical Students Through the Imposter Phenomenon
January 13, 2021, 3:00 pm CST| Panelists: David C. Bury, DO, MPH, FAAFP; Colin Sheffield, DO; Scott P Grogan, DO, MBA, FAAFP
This webinar is based on one of the most popular sessions at the 2020 STFM Conference on Medical Student Education. Medical students commonly struggle with cynicism, self-doubt, and poor self-worth. Studies show that imposter phenomenon in medical students is high, and may affect patient care. Residents and faculty on family medicine clerkships are in prime position to mentor through the imposter phenomenon, reversing feelings of self-doubt and worthlessness and building confident student physicians.
This session highlights techniques that rock star mentors can use to overcome the imposter phenomenon, including celebrating small wins, building a support team, talking back to negative thoughts, and establishing a personal identity and wellness plan. Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:
- Apply imposter phenomenon evidence to medical student mentorship - Implement techniques as mentors to lead students through feelings of self-doubt and fraud - Formulate a plan to create a safe learning environment at your institution that stifles imposter phenomenon and produces confident students
How to Use the Family Medicine Residency Curriculum Resource for Virtual Learning
July 16, 2020 | Panelists: Michael Tuggy, MD, Scott Cordts, MD, Timothy P. Graham, MD, MHPE, and Natascha Lautenschlaeger, MD.
This free webinar offers practical advice about how to integrate the Family Medicine Residence Curriculum Resource quickly and easily into virtual didactics. Presenters offer relevant and timely guidance on virtual learning including:
The need for virtual learning in a pandemic environment
The history and theory behind virtual learning
The use of active learning in a virtual setting
How to alter existing sessions for a virtual audience
Best practices in group sharing
Newly developed just-in-time curriculum
Opportunities for residents to generate scholarly activity through contributions to the Family Medicine Residency Curriculum Resource
Teach Effective Learning Strategies to Your Students
December 3, 2019 | Presenters: Cecil Robinson, PhD, James Tysinger, PhD, and Alison Dobbie, MD
This webinar was based on one of the most popular sessions at the 2019 STFM Conference on Medical Student Education.
Faculty can help students move from rote memorization to application in clinical scenarios by embedding a variety of learning strategies into their classroom and clinical teaching. This presentation explains effective learning strategies for the application of learning and demonstrates how faculty can employ the science of learning in their teaching.
Upping Your Teaching Game with the Residency Curriculum Resource
September 20, 2019 | Presenters: Mike Tuggy, MD; Tim Graham, MD; Natascha Lautenschlaeger, MD
Get practical suggestions on how to implement the content of the Family Medicine Residency Curriculum Resource at your own program to best serve your structure and needs. Our presenters explain how the curricula in this resource can be integrated into a program’s didactic schedule in multiple ways.
A collaborative effort between the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) and the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors (AFMRD).
Objectives:
1) Understand the current state of the Residency Curriculum Resource and how it is structured
2) Learn how using interactiveteachingtools enhances retention and promotes better practical understanding
3) Learn how to implement the Residency Curriculum Resource intoyourprogram and engage faculty in the process to get buy-in and make full use of the resource
Best of the Conference on Medical Student Education: 1. "Cura te Ipsum 'Heal Thyself': Strategies to Avert Burnout, Build Resilience, and Model Wellness." 2. "Addressing Micro-Aggressions, Racism, and Discrimination in the Medical Workplace."
November 28, 2018 | Presenters: Catherine Florio Pipas, MD, MPH, and Roberto Montenegro, MD, PhD
This webinar features presentations on two separate topics led by general session speakers from the 2018 and the 2019 STFM Conferences on Medical Student Education. Catherine Florio Pipas, MD, MPH, presented selected highlights from her popular 2018 general session titled: "Cura te Ipsum 'Heal Thyself': Strategies to Avert Burnout, Build Resilience, and Model Wellness." As an exclusive preview of the 2019 conference, Roberto Montenegro, MD, PhD, shared a portion of his upcoming general session on "Addressing Micro-Aggressions, Racism, and Discrimination in the Medical Workplace."
Making the Residency Curriculum Resource Come Alive
August 9, 2018 | Presenter: Michael Tuggy, MD
Learn how to integrate the Family Medicine Residency Curriculum Resource into your residency program.
Michael Tuggy, MD, the Senior Editor for this resource, shares details on how to:
• Learn about the current resources available in the new Residency Curriculum Resource • View examples of how to implement the core topics into your curriculum • Understand the value of the case-based teaching modules for the core topics • Learn how to submit a core topic proposal to help complete the full project
