Key Initiatives

Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education Initiative

The STFM Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education Initiative

An STFM Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education Task Force, chaired by STFM President Steven Lin, MD, is working on the following tactics to advance responsible, outcome-driven, and people-centered artificial intelligence:

  • Identify and act on opportunities for collaborative work around AI within STFM (e.g. the AI in Education Collaborative and other Collaboratives)
  • Identify and act on opportunities to collaborate around AI with the larger family of family medicine organizations
  • Forge new partnerships with other professional societies, health systems, industry, payers, and government around AI
  • Identify and promote foundational AI use cases that help the family medicine workforce 
  • Identify opportunities to develop datasets that catalyze family medicine R&D and attract industry
  • Identify and promote opportunities to apply AI to support core values such as equity and community
  • Support the work of family medicine AI pioneers, disseminate learnings, and promote the development of new centers of excellence 
  • Provide members with opportunities to practice with exemplar AI-based tools that can be applied to a wide range of clinical, educational, and research settings\
  • Address key limitations to the use of AI including unintended, harmful consequences
  • Identify and promote opportunities for AI to personalize the learning journey for learners (“precision medical education”)
  • Identify and promote opportunities for AI to lower the burden of education administration and curriculum development for faculty
  • Identify and promote opportunities to elevate members to leadership roles in AI
  • Identify or create new opportunities to incorporate AI content/training into existing STFM programs and offerings for medical students, residents, and faculty
  • Explore the feasibility of an AI certificate program for STFM members
  • Inspire and mobilize STFM members and more broadly, frontline primary care clinicians, scholars, educators, and learners around AI

STFM Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education Task Force

  • Steven Lin, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Rika Bajra, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Ian Bennett MD, PhD, University of Washington School of Medicine
  • Linda Chang, PharmD, MPH, BCPS, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford
  • John Hayes DO, MCW-Prevea Green Bay Family Medicine Residency Program
  • Enitza George, MD, MBA, MSAI, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
  • Karim Hanna, MD, USF TGH Family Medicine Residency Program
  • Misbah Keen, MD, MBI, MPH, University of Washington School of Medicine
  • Winston Liaw, MD, MPH, University of Houston
  • May Lin, DO, Touro University
  • Yun Shi, MD, PhD, UT Health San Antonio
  • Margaret Ann Smith, Stanford School of Medicine
  • Brent Sugimoto, MD, MPH, LifeLong Medical Care Family Medicine Residency Program
  • Mary Theobald, MBA, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
  • Timothy Tsai, DO MMCi, Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Steven Waldren, MD, MS, American Academy of Family Physicians
  • Yun Liu, Google Research

     

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Events

November 19, 2025, 1 pm Eastern: GME Leadership Webinar Series: “Soft Power, Strong Purpose: Navigating Institutional Realities”

January 29–February 1, 2026: The 2026 STFM Conference on Medical Student Education

May 2–6, 2026: The 2026 STFM Annual Spring Conference

Due Dates

September 30, 2025: STFM New Faculty Scholars Applications

October 4, 2025: STFM Advocate Award Nominations

October 21, 2025: Apply to Serve on STFM Foundation Board of Trustees

October 24, 2025: Apply to Join STFM 60th Anniversary Celebration Task Force

October 28, 2025: Apply for the STFM Foundation Faculty for Tomorrow Resident Scholarship

November 1, 2025: Apply for Behavioral Science/Family Systems Educator Fellowship

November 8, 2025: Nominations for the following awards: Curtis G. Hames Research Award and STFM Research Paper of the Year Award

November 14, 2025: Apply for Emerging Leaders Fellowship

January 15, 2026: Family Medicine Call for Papers: Theme Issue on Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) in Family Medicine Education

March 1, 2026: Family Medicine Call for Papers: Theme Issue on Scope of Practice in Family Medicine

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