January 30, 2025—CERA is accepting applications for two open steering committee positions, the annual CERA Fellowship, and the annual CERA Clerkship Director survey. The application deadline for each of these CERA opportunities is February 25, 2025.

CERA, the Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance, is a collaboration between several family medicine organizations (STFM, NAPCRG, AFMRD, and ADFM) focused on conducting research and supporting medical education in family medicine. These organizations make up the Council of Academic Family Medicine (CAFM).

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CERA is accepting applications for two open steering committee positions: the CERA Associate Program Director Survey Chair and the CERA General Membership Survey Chair.

Applicants for each opening must be an active member of any CAFM organization (ADFM, AFMRD, NAPCRG, or STFM) with research knowledge and expertise.

For the CERA associate program director chair position, applicants with previous residency program director or associate program director experience are preferred. The committee tenure is 2–3 years as associate chair followed by an additional 2 years as chair. The associate chair is expected to transition to the program director survey chair position. Click here for a complete list of responsibilities, benefits, and application instructions.

For the CERA General Membership Survey Chair position, the committee tenure is 2 years, with an optional second 2-year term. Click here for responsibilities, benefits, and application instructions.

The CERA Fellowship provides one faculty member a yearlong experience with the CERA Steering Committee. During this part-time commitment, faculty receive mentorship and training to lay the groundwork to become a future scholarly leader. The fellowship term begins in May at the STFM Annual Spring Conference.

Applicants must be:

• Full-time or part-time faculty members in a family medicine department or family medicine residency program

• Active members of at least one CAFM organization

Preference will be given to faculty members in the first 5 years of their academic careers. Click here for more information about the fellowship, including application instructions.

CERA is accepting proposals for questions for an annual survey of family medicine clerkship directors. The survey, which will be conducted in June 2025, will be sent to nearly 170 clerkship directors. Priority will be given to proposals that are likely to result in high-quality, peer-reviewed publications.

Researchers whose questions are included in the survey will have exclusive access to their portion of the survey results for 90 days. After the 90 days, the data will be added to the CERA data repository.

Proposals will be accepted from members of a CAFM organization (ADFM, AFMRD, NAPCRG, or STFM). You must have an STFM, ADFM, or NAPCRG account to log into the submission system (AFMRD members can create a free account). Submit your proposal here.