Call for Presentations > Annual Spring Conference

Call for Presentations

Submission Deadline: Tuesday, September 3, 2024 (11:59 pm CDT)

STFM welcomes submissions from the entire family medicine faculty care team—physicians, medical assistants, physician assistants, residents, students, health educators, coordinators, and administrators. We also encourage submissions from our STFM Collaboratives.

Before Starting Your Submission:
Take a look at these resources developed by the STFM Program Committee

Presentation Options Graphic (PDF)
STFM Annual Spring Conference Session Selector (PDF)
Important Tips for Creating Effective Conference Submissions (PDF)
Best Submission Examples (PDF)

A separate call will open in early November 2024 for Fellow, Resident, and Student Works in Progress Research Posters.

General Instructions:

Incomplete submissions will not be reviewed.
Do not submit the same proposal in more than one category.
Acknowledgment of receipt of submissions will be emailed automatically after you complete your submission.
ALL PRESENTERS MUST PAY THE REGISTRATION FEE. In addition, no honoraria or
travel expense reimbursement will be provided for any presenter submitting through the call for presentations.
Presenters may not use any conference presentation to market products or services;
partnerships are available for that purpose.
Every presenter (lead and secondary) and author, will be required to complete a faculty disclosure form indicating any financial arrangement or affiliation with any organizations that may have a direct interest in the subject matter of the continuing medical education presentation

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We encourage proposal submissions in these content areas:

Innovative approaches and best practices for meeting new ACGME requirements
Artificial intelligence
Competency-based medical education
Behavioral health integration
Exemplary models of family medicine health care teams, interprofessional training and interprofessional collaborative practice
Family medicine’s leadership within our health care systems
Antiracism training, education, and resources for medical students, residents, and faculty
Meeting the needs of rural and underserved communities through family medicine education
Models of innovative value-based payment system
Family medicine’s role in addressing social determinants of health and health disparities
Reducing administrative burden and improving well-being
Initiatives that advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility
Education in LGBTQ+ affirming health care
Advocacy and activism skills for family medicine educators and learners
Competency based procedural training
Processes that support the growth of a diverse workforce
Promoting student interest in family medicine
Pipeline programs; preparing residents for academics

We also invite presentations that describe best practices in the following:

Resident career and leadership development
Faculty development for junior, mid-career, and senior-level faculty
Fundamentals of precepting, curriculum development, and learner evaluation
Working with learners with academic difficulties
Care of infants, children, and adolescents
Training, advocacy, and care for people with disabilities
Medical care of persons with mental illness
Medical education on climate change and health
Emerging technology in patient care and medical education including telemedicine and virtual teaching modalities
Substance use disorder care and training principles
Maternity care
Musculoskeletal medicine
Emergency preparedness and disaster response
Educational scholarship and quality improvement training
Evidence-based clinical medicine updates
Nutrition
Medical humanities
Lifestyle medicine

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Message From the Conference Chair

Mike Malone MD, FAAFP, STFM Program Committee

Please join us in Salt Lake City for the STFM Annual Spring Conference, May 3-7, 2025. We invite you to attend the conference to engage in practical, innovative sessions for teachers of family medicine. If you've been to the annual conference in the past, you know what a rejuvenating and motivating experience it is. If you've never attended, please join us to learn what makes the STFM community so incredible. I'm confident you'll come home inspired by new ideas from colleagues around the country. Attendees note the camaraderie as one of the most rewarding and worthwhile aspects of the conference.

Family medicine is positioning itself to meet the growing need for a resilient, equitable, and effective primary care work force that can rise to clinical and societal challenges. The STFM Annual Spring Conference is an ideal venue to share best practice and innovations in family medicine education. Your presentations, contributions, enthusiasm, and commitment to family medicine education are what make the STFM Annual Conference so rich. We encourage you to submit your scholarly work so we can share expertise and experiences as we continue to transform family medicine.

Please plan to join us in Salt Lake City, Utah May 3-7, 2025!

Submission Categories

Download Specific Submission Templates Below.
These templates (.doc) are to use offline to prepare your submission. You will need to copy and paste into the online submission system when you are ready to do so.

Preconference Workshop

Purpose: Interactive, skill-building session that occurs on the day before the conference begins and requires more time than the other conference formats allow. There are limited slots for this session format.

NOTE: If your workshop will be sponsored by an outside (non-STFM) group, organization, or other funder, the sponsor information will be required on the submission form.

Time: 4-8 hours

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Workshop

Purpose: A participatory, task-oriented, small group educational experience directed toward the acquisition, demonstration, construction, and/or synthesis of specific knowledge, skills, and /or attitudes. There are limited slots for this session format.

Time: 90 minutes

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Panel Discussion

Purpose: A moderated, interactive session that brings together 3-5 panelists to engage participants in discussion about an innovative or provocative topic in family medicine education. The panelists must demonstrate their content expertise in the submission and ideally, represent multiple institutions. There are limited slots for this session format.

Time: 60 minutes

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Seminar

Purpose: An interactive session focusing on dissemination and discussion of an innovative educational, administrative, research, career development, or clinical topic. Submission must demonstrate plan for active audience engagement.

Time: 60 minutes

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Lecture-Discussion

Purpose: 30-minute session focusing on dissemination and discussion of an innovative topic related to education, administration, research, career development, or clinical practice improvement.

Required elements

Reportable outcomes for dissemination
Submission describes use of interactive teaching methods to be applied in the session
Examples include: outcomes of a curricular innovation or clinical project that improved learner knowledge or practice outcomes, or an intervention that created an opportunity to meet educational needs or well-being.

Note: Projects still in progress at the time of submission (not at the time of presentation) are most appropriate for the Developing Scholarly Project Poster category. New ideas can be submitted in the Scholarly Roundtable category.

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Completed Project

Purpose: A 15-minute presentation for presenters to briefly describe implementation and outcomes of a completed innovative educational, administrative, career development, or clinical program/project. Active audience engagement is required but limited to question and answer format.

Time: 15 minutes (10 minutes for presentation, 5 minutes for discussion) Multiple presentations grouped by topic and presented consecutively in each session.)

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Completed Research Project

Purpose: These sessions focus on research submissions that critically evaluate and test completed interventions in education, process of care, patient-oriented outcomes, and quality of care. Submissions must include purpose, methods, results, and conclusions.

Time: 15 minutes - 10 minutes for presentation, 5 minutes for discussion (each; multiple presentations grouped by topic presented consecutively in each session.)

Distinguished Paper – 20 minutes - 15 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions and discussions.

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Scholarly Topic Roundtable Discussion

Purpose: Small group, interactive opportunity for 10 participants to share ideas, experiences, or projects pertinent to family medicine education, clinical care, research, or management. Presenters will briefly introduce their topic and then facilitate interaction between the participants to enhance knowledge and generate ideas. Occurs concurrently with other discussions during a 60-minute breakfast in the general session ballroom.

Time: 50 minutes (including breakfast)

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Posters

Faculty Works-in-Progress Poster
An opportunity for participants to view and discuss an in progress innovative educational or curricular project during a 60-minute poster session. There should be a clear plan in place for assessment while the project evaluation is still in progress. Preliminary or final results of the planned assessment should be completed prior to presentation at the conference.
Time: Presenters will be assigned to a 60-minute poster session
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Completed Project Poster
An opportunity to view and discuss implementation and results of a completed innovative educational or curricular project pertinent to family medicine.
Time: Presenters will be assigned to a 60-minute poster session
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Completed Research Poster
An opportunity to view quality of care studies and discuss investigators’ completed original research.
Time: Presenters will be assigned to a 60-minute poster session
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Fellow, Resident, Student Research Completed or Works-in-Progress Posters
An opportunity to illustrate research projects currently complete or in progress by clinical or academic family medicine fellows, residents, and students.
Time: Presenters will be assigned to a 60-minute poster session
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