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Call for Presentation Proposals

Submission Deadline: Tuesday, February 4, 2025 (11:59 pm CST)

The 2025 conference will bring together providers, researchers, educators, practice team members, and administrators to share knowledge for transforming family medicine residency programs and clinical practices.  

All members of the care and residency teams are invited to submit, including residents, students, behavioral science specialists, nurses, medical assistants, physician assistants, and administrators.

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GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

1. Submissions must meet all the requirements of the proposed category. Review the submission categories below. 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 e-mailed 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; exhibit space and literature displays are available for that purpose.

6. Every presenter, lead and secondary, 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.

7. Posters will be on display 1 1/2 days.

We want to hear perspectives from all members of the health care team. This conference is ideal for networking and disseminating information about the topics listed below and more.

Care Delivery

  • Interdisciplinary care team integration and function
  • Behavioral health
  • Substance use disorder
  • Gender-affirming care
  • Climate medicine
  • Virtual care and home monitoring
  • Rural care
  • Practice management
  • Team-based care
  • Patient experience
  • Artificial intelligence in healthcare
  • Coding, billing, payment
  • Managing patient portal/messaging

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

  • Addressing health disparities
  • Diversity, equity, and inclusion
  • Social determinants of health

Value-Based Health Care Delivery

  • Managing chronic disease
  • Preventive care
  • Patient engagement
  • Patient safety and error prevention
  • Health information technology and interoperability
  • Risk assessment
  • Data and analytics
  • Population health

Workforce

  • Well-being initiatives
  • Burnout prevention and recovery
  • Recruitment and retention strategies
  • Professionalism–teaching and assessing

Education

  • Dissemination of quality improvement work
  • Behavioral sciences–family systems
  • ACGME review committee requirements
  • Learning networks

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Conference Chair's Message

Calling All Family Medicine and Behavioral Science Colleagues!

We warmly invite you to submit your abstracts to the 2025 Conference on Practice and Quality Improvement in Pittsburgh, PA, from September 8–10, 2025.

With this conference’s long-standing spirit of innovation, STFM will continue to integrate key elements of the Forum for Behavioral Science in Family Medicine into our Conference on Practice and Quality Improvement. Building on the tremendous success of our 2024 joint conference, this event brings clinician educators together and presents new opportunities for interprofessional interaction and learning from all members of the health care team. This conference is ideal for networking and disseminating information about practice transformation, including the topics listed in the call for presentations.

On behalf of my colleagues on the conference steering committee, we look forward to reviewing your submissions and joining you in Pittsburgh in 2025.

Sincerely,

Payam Sazegar, MD, FAAFP, FASAM
2025 Conference Chair

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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.

Lecture
Poster Completed Project
Poster Work In Progress
Seminar
Student Resident Poster
Workshop
Scholarly Topic Round Table Discussion

Purpose: To give practical information and methods to enhance practice improvement through health information and patient education efforts or to enhance resident/behavioral science education. Seminars should include a combination of presentation and active involvement of participants.

Time: 60 minutes (50-minute presentation, 10 minutes of discussion/response)

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Purpose: To provide a forum for focused didactic presentation and discussion of an in-progress clinical, research, administrative, education project or brief behavioral medicine topic with preliminary data and/or expected results.

Time: 30 minutes (20-minute presentation, 10 minutes of discussion/response)

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Purpose: To present high-quality, interactive sessions that require more time than the regular conference format allows.

Time: 90 minutes

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Purpose: To provide an opportunity for one-on-one discussion of a presenter’s completed project in education, process of care, patient-oriented outcomes, and quality of care studies. Completed posters require Purpose, Methods, Results, Conclusions (Distribution of handouts is encouraged; audiovisual equipment not provided).

Time: 1 hour staffing your poster during dedicated time; posters will be on display for 1 1/2 days (including refreshment breaks)

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Purpose: To provide an opportunity for one-on-one discussion of a presenter’s work-in-progress project related to teaching, education, curricular or clinical intervention, management innovation, or quality improvement. (Distribution of handouts is encouraged; audiovisual equipment not provided).

Time: 1 hour staffing your poster during dedicated time; posters will be on display for 1 1/2 days (including refreshment breaks)

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Purpose: To provide an opportunity for one-on-one discussion of a presenter’s work in progress project related to teaching, education, curricular or clinical intervention, management innovation, or quality improvement. (Distribution of handouts is encouraged; audiovisual equipment not provided).

Time: 1 hour staffing your poster during dedicated time; posters will be on display for 1 1/2 days (including refreshment breaks)

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Purpose: informal presentations to share experiences, ideas, problems, or solutions; leaders briefly present material and facilitate discussion

Time: 50 minutes (including breakfast)

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Questions

If you have additional questions about the submission process, contact stfmoffice@stfm.org. 

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Events

January 30–February 2, 2025: STFM Conference on Medical Student Education

February 11, 2025, 11:30 am CST: Webinar: Planning for the Future: Personal Finance Education with Equitable’s Stephen Dunbar

February 28, 2025, 11 am CST: Webinar: Addressing the Residency Continuity Requirement: A Panel Discussion to Share Successes and Barriers

May 3–7, 2025: STFM Annual Spring Conference

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

Due Dates

February 4, 2025: Deadline for Presentation Proposals for 2025 Conference on Practice and Quality Improvement

February 17, 2025: Submissions for the 2025 Poetry and Prose Contest Due

February 28, 2025: Family Medicine Advocacy Summit Scholarship Applications Due

March 4, 2025: Medical Student Educators Development Institute (MSEDI) Applications Due

April 1, 2025: Early Bird Deadline for STFM Annual Spring Conference Registration

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