The Lynn and Joan Carmichael STFM Recognition Award honors an STFM member or nonmember for outstanding leadership in advancing family medicine as a discipline.
The Lynn and Joan Carmichael STFM Recognition Award honors an STFM member or nonmember for outstanding leadership in advancing family medicine as a discipline. The nominee's achievements and activities should be clearly recognized as enhancing or supporting family medicine education by improving resources available for its support, by defense or support of its objectives, or by other notable service to the discipline. Such achievements should have had significance at a national level.Recipients for this award are honored during the STFM Annual Spring Conference. The award winner receives travel support up to $2000, a commemorative award, and a complimentary registration to the STFM Annual Spring Conference.
The selection is made by the STFM Nominations Committee and approved by the STFM Board of Directors. Members of the Nominations Committee are not eligible to receive the award while serving on the Committee.Nominations are ranked based on achievements and activities that have:
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