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Call for Presentations Open

Submission Deadline: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 (11:59 pm CDT)

The Call for Presentations is open for the 2026 STFM Annual Spring Conference in New Orleans, LA. The deadline to submit research proposals is September 2, 2025.

We welcome 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.

A separate call will open in early November 2025 for Fellow, Resident, and Student Works in Progress Research Posters.

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Before Starting Your Submission

Take a look at these resources developed by the STFM Program Committee:

General Instructions

  1. Incomplete submissions will not be reviewed.
  2. Do not submit the same proposal in more than one category.
  3. Acknowledgment of receipt of submissions will be emailed automatically after you complete your submission.
  4. 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.
  5. Presenters may not use any conference presentation to market products or services;
    partnerships are available for that purpose.
  6. 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

Presentation Topics

We encourage proposal submissions in these content areas

Best Practices

  • Resident career and leadership development
  • Faculty development 
  • Fundamentals of precepting, curriculum development, and learner evaluation
  • Supporting struggling learners
  • Use of artificial intelligence
  • Emerging technology in patient care and medical education including telemedicine and virtual teaching modalities
  • Medical education on climate change and health
  • Emergency preparedness and disaster response
  • Behavioral Health treatment of mental health/substance use disorders
  • Care of infants, children, and adolescents
  • Training, advocacy, and care for people with disabilities
  • Maternity care
  • Lifestyle medicine

Curriculum and Assessment

  • Osteopathic medicine: education and curriculum
  • Novel approaches to professionalism training, assessment, and remediation in family medicine 
  • Novel approaches to behavioral health training in family medicine
  • Antiracism training, education, and resources 
  • Health outcomes in practice and education
  • Family medicine training for rural and underserved communities
  • Family medicine training for LGBTQ+ affirming health care
  • Advocacy and activism skills for family medicine educators and learner

GME

  • Innovative strategies to meet new ACGME requirements
  • Competency-based medical education and procedural training
  • Improving assessment and evaluation processes
  • Holistic review in resident selection
  • Novel recruitment strategies for family medicine
  • UME to GME transition

Interprofessional Collaboration

  • Exemplary models of interprofessional collaboration in family medicine training

 

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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.

Posters

Fellow, Resident, Student Research Completed or Works-in-Progress Posters—The call for presentations for this poster type is open now.
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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Faculty Works-in-Progress Poste​r​
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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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 13-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: 13 minutes; 10 minutes for presentation, 3 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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Questions

If you have questions about the submission process for the Annual Spring Conference, email stfmoffice@stfm.org or call (800) 274-7928.

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Events

July 21, 2025, 12 pm CDT/1 pm EDT: Equitable Advisors Webinar: "Strategies for Pushing Past Your First $1 Million"

September 8–10, 2025: The 2025 STFM Conference on Practice & Quality Improvement

Due Dates

July 21, 2025: Apply to Serve on STFM Board of Directors

July 22, 2025: Proposals for a CERA Family Medicine Program Directors Survey Due

July 24, 2025: Apply to Serve as Student Representative on the STFM Board of Directors

July 24, 2025: Apply to Serve as Resident Representative on the STFM Board of Directors

July 25, 2025: Application deadline to serve on the STFM Board of Directors as the Student Representative and Resident Representative on the STFM Board of Directors

August 14, 2025: Nominations for F. Marian Bishop Leadership Award Due

August 30, 2025: Apply to Join the STFM Bishop Society

September 18, 2025: Award nominations are due for the following awards: STFM Excellence in Education Award, STFM Diversity Award, STFM Innovative Program, Lynn and Joan Carmichael STFM Recognition Award 

September 23, 2025: Nominations for Open Committee Positions Due

September 30, 2025: STFM New Faculty Scholars Applications Due

October 4, 2025: STFM Advocate Award Nominations Due

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