Registration Information
Registration for the 2026 STFM Conference on Medical Student Education is now open. Visit the registration page for more information. The conference will be at the Sheraton-Le Méridien Charlotte. Visit our hotel and travel page to reserve your room at our host hotel.Watch a highlight video from the 2025 conference below.
Why You Should Attend the STFM Conference on Medical Student Education
Guide and Inspire Your Medical Students
Obtain skills and resources to help your students become proficient, empathetic, cooperative, and innovative physicians dedicated to addressing the health care requirements of our communities.
Network With Other Medical Educators
Establish connections with family medicine educators, coordinators, administrators, students, residents, and community preceptors nationwide.
Strengthen the Family Medicine Pipeline
Learn how to increase students and faculty in the practice of family medicine with novel strategies and recruitment programs to engage learners and educators.
Variety of Topics and Subject Matter in Sessions
Attend educational sessions focused on CBME, coordinator best practices, health outcomes in practice and education, incorporating anti-racism curricular changes, recruiting and retaining community preceptors, advocacy skills, professionalism assessment and curriculum, and more.
Other Examples of Faculty Development Topics
Curriculum development, giving feedback, teaching in the clinical setting, leadership development, conflict management, project management, educational scholarship/research, mentoring, promotion, struggling learners and remediation
Other Examples of Teaching Clinic Topics
Impact of climate change, trauma-informed care, behavioral health, addiction/MAT, community-based hormonal therapy, reproductive health, lifestyle medicine, POCUS, chronic disease management, disease prevention, population health, quality improvement
Featured General Sessions
Evelyn Figueroa, MD
University of Illinois Chicago
"Extending Beyond Medication Dispositions — Exploring and Utilizing Your Community’s Safety Net"
Dr Figueroa is a Chicago-based family physician who has operated an anti-poverty nonprofit since 2017. In this session, Dr Figueroa will share her academic journey to community-centered family medicine and provide best practices for locating social services across the country. From city-funded assistance to programs sponsored by non-government organizations, support varies significantly across the country. Dr Figueroa will share her approach for swiftly locating free resources that address gaps in social determinants of health.
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Megan W. Gerhardt, PhD
Miami University's Farmer School of Business
"Scott Fields Lecture: Unlocking Gentelligence"
It’s time for smarter intergenerational conversations. With five distinct generations currently in today’s workplace, organizational leaders and teams frequently encounter frustration and complexity when managing intergenerational dynamics. In this engaging keynote, Megan W. Gerhardt, PhD, pushes back on lazy generational stereotypes to understand why generations bring different norms into the workplace.
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Karly Hampshire, MD; Natasha Sood, MD, MPH; and Bhargavi Chekuri, MD (Moderator)
New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center; Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and University of Colorado
"Rising Voices, Lasting Change: Intergenerational Leadership in Planetary Health Education"
Climate change is the greatest health threat of the 21st century, yet medical education has been slow to prepare future physicians for its wide-ranging impacts on health systems and patient care. In this session, we spotlight the power of student-led innovation in advancing climate and health education through two globally recognized initiatives: the Planetary Health Report Card and Climate Resources for Health Education.
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Questions?
If you have questions about this conference, contact Kim Sevedge at (800) 274-7928 or the email link below.
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