Resources for Residency Program Faculty

Behavioral Science/Family Systems Educator Fellowship

This competitive, yearlong fellowship is for family medicine faculty who have responsibility for coordinating or teaching the behavioral science/family systems curriculum.

Emerging Leaders Fellowship

The yearlong Emerging Leaders Fellowship offers training, tools, and support for new faculty and those who are transitioning to leadership roles. Fellows learn essential leadership skills; lead a team in completion of a project and then present their results; and get connected to family medicine leaders who share tips on motivating others and handling difficult people and situations.

Faculty Development Delivered

Meet ACGME and/or LCME requirements, save on travel expenses, and provide CME opportunities with a customized faculty development workshop at your location. Our faculty will use interactive methods to engage your faculty and promote evidence-based teaching principles. Pay one lump sum and invite your faculty and preceptors.

Faculty Development Starter Package for Residencies

This combination of STFM resources helps new residency programs: 1) understand and meet accreditation requirements; and 2) prepare faculty to provide quality education to residents.

FM POCUS Educator's Certificate Program

During this year-long certificate program, residency faculty:

• Practice POCUS techniques and image acquisition
• Receive instruction on the clinical indications of and evidence on the use of POCUS at the bedside
• Learn how to implement a POCUS curriculum
• Practice how to be an effective POCUS preceptor
• Learn how to communicate and document POCUS scans
• Receive practical guidance on how to bill for POCUS
• Connect with a network of FM POCUS enthusiasts around the country

Leadership Through Scholarship Fellowship

The yearlong Leadership through Scholarship Fellowship offers training and mentorship for early-career underrepresented in medicine (URM) minority faculty with a focus on developing scholarly writing skills for academic advancement and leadership. 

Medical Editing Fellowship

The STFM Medical Editing Fellowship provides one faculty member a yearlong experience with the editorial and publishing teams at Family Medicine. Through this part-time, virtual fellowship, early or mid-career faculty receive coaching and hands-on experience to improve their skills in writing, reviewing, and editing scientific papers. The fellowship begins in June.

Precepting Performance Improvement Toolkit

Recognize and reward your preceptors. The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) Precepting Performance Improvement Program allows academic units (Sponsors) to offer Performance Improvement credit to family physicians who teach medical students or residents and who participate in a teaching improvement activity. This toolkit offers resources and information for Sponsors.

Advocacy Course

This free online course, which takes less than an hour to complete, provides skills and practical strategies for advocating for and promoting the value of family medicine. The course includes these modules: Getting Started in Advocacy; Prepare and Make Contact; The One-Pager; The Visit; Maintaining the Relationship. 

Faculty for Tomorrow Webinars

This free webinar series, developed by the Faculty for Tomorrow Task Force, provides fundamental knowledge and skills that new faculty and residents as educators need to thrive in a career in academic family medicine. Topics include effective classroom teaching, how to give feedback, clinical teaching skills, and more. 

Giving Feedback Course

Giving feedback is a critical part of teaching future family physicians, but giving consistent, quality feedback can sometimes be challenging. This online course will introduce you to the principles of giving quality feedback and then take you to the next level by showing you when to give feedback, where, and what models you can use.

Leading Change Course

Learn to lead change in your institution, within your community, and nationally. The Leading Change Course covers how to assess the need for change, develop a plan for change, and provide successful change leadership. This free online course will take about 3 hours to complete.

Residency Faculty Fundamentals Certificate Program

This certificate program includes self-led courses with assignments to provide foundational training for residency faculty. Completion of the course requires approximately 30 hours and covers: the structure and requirements of residency education; how to be an effective faculty member; nuts and bolts of curriculum development; and strategies for assessment, feedback, and remediation.

Understanding Health Systems

These online courses and resources help faculty and residents:

• Understand how decisions are made in health systems
• Advocate for business-based solutions that incorporate the needs of medical education, family medicine, and health systems

URM Leadership Pathways in Academic Medicine

In this free online course, underrepresented in medicine (URM) faculty will learn about trajectories to academic leadership within a variety of institutions. 

Wellness Course

Wellness is a critical part of preventing physician burnout and maintaining quality patient care. This course, featuring Catherine Florio Pipas, MD, MPH and Mark Greenawald, MD, will provide you with steps you need to take to develop and maintain your personal wellness. The Wellness course is an online course containing videos, readings, and activities. The course will take about an hour to complete.

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Family Medicine Residency Curriculum Resource

The Family Medicine Residency Curriculum Resource houses peer-reviewed, competency-based curricular content organized by post-graduate year. The site includes presentations, facilitators’ guides, and quizzes for more than 200 residency topics. New curricula are added and updated on a regular basis. 

Addiction Medicine Curriculum

This national addiction curriculum includes 12 addiction medicine modules with interactive content, handouts, videos, supplemental resources, and assessments. 

Global Health Curriculum Toolkit

This guide for implementing a Global Health curriculum covers a broad list of topics that could be included in a global health track. 

Residents as Educators Curriculum

This curricula, created by the Faculty for Tomorrow Task Force, can be used for didactic presentations to enhance residents' teaching skills. Each curriculum includes a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator's guide, and a quiz.

Smiles for Life

Developed by the STFM Oral Health Collaborative, the online and downloadable curriculum emphasizes the role of primary care clinicians in the promotion of oral health. Each module includes a 45-minute presentation, annotated presenter notes, educational objectives, test questions, companion videos, and a list of resources.

Telemedicine Curriculum

Give your learners the knowledge and skills they need to conduct effective, patient-centered telemedicine visits. Resources include guidance to help teaching clinicians integrate telemedicine topics into courses, clerkships, and residency curricula and national telemedicine curriculum for students and family medicine residents.

Understanding Health Systems

These online courses and resources help faculty and residents:

• Understand how decisions are made in health systems
• Advocate for business-based solutions that incorporate the needs of medical education, family medicine, and health systems

New Faculty Advocacy Scholarship

This scholarship is for new faculty to attend the Family Medicine Advocacy Summit in Washington, DC for the purpose of learning advocacy skills for personal and academic career development. 

New Faculty Scholars Program

This program is designed to be a catalyst for developing future leaders in STFM and other areas of academic family medicine. The program provides funding to send 10 participants to the STFM Annual Spring Conference.  

F. Marian Bishop Leadership Award

Established in 1990 in honor of Dr F. Marian Bishop, the F. Marian Bishop Leadership Award is presented by the STFM Foundation to honor individuals who have significantly enhanced the credibility of family medicine by a sustained, long-term commitment to family medicine in academic settings.

Curtis G. Hames Research Award

The Curtis G. Hames Research Award honors those individuals whose careers over the years exemplify dedication to research in family medicine. The award recipient is selected by a committee representing STFM, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the North American Primary Care Research Group. This award is supported by the Department of Family Medicine through the MCG Foundation's Hames Endowment of the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.

Lynn & Joan Carmichael STFM Recognition Award

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.

STFM Advocate Award

This award honors STFM member(s) for outstanding work in political advocacy at the local, state, or national level. The recipient's efforts are not restricted to legislative work but cannot be solely individual patient advocacy.

STFM Best Research Paper Award

The STFM Best Research Paper Award recognizes the best research paper published in a peer-reviewed journal during the previous academic year. The first author must be an STFM member. The STFM Research Committee bases the award selection on the quality of the research and its potential impact. 

STFM Diversity Award

This award recognizes an STFM member who best promotes innovative leadership, impact, and change that advances diversity, equity, and/or inclusion in family medicine education through the nominee’s work as a family medicine faculty member. 

STFM Excellence in Education Award

Designed to honor outstanding teachers, the STFM Excellence in Education Award recognizes an STFM member who has demonstrated excellence in teaching, curriculum development, mentoring, research, or leadership in education at regional or national levels. Nominees must have sustained involvement in family medicine teaching.

STFM Innovative Program Award

The STFM Innovative Program Award honors excellence in the development of an original educational program or activity for family medicine residents, students, or faculty. The award recognizes a broad interpretation of innovative family medicine programs to include innovative residency programs, clerkships, services, curricula, or other activities that have had a significant, positive impact on family medicine education.

STFM Precepting Awards

The STFM Precepting Awards recognize teaching contributions by individuals and teaching practices. Medical schools and residency programs can nominate teachers and teaching practices that meet the criteria. The awards are intended for those who precept students, particularly community preceptors/practices.

Behavioral Science Basics

Access a compilation of teaching and clinical care resources for new and seasoned behavioral health/family systems educators, including curriculum, patient care resources, key articles, books, evaluation tools, and presentations. 

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accountability Aggregated Resources

Learn about STFM's antiracism and health equity initiatives, and access a compilation of resources. 

Competency-Based Medical Education Toolkit

Learn about ACGME and ABFM expectations for assessing resident competence. Access resources for competency based education and assessment.

Family Medicine Residency Learning Network Aggregated Resources

Access faculty development, guides, and infrastructure support to meet ACGME FM-RC expectations for participation in residency learning networks.

Holistic & Inclusive Residency Recruitment Aggregated Resources 

Increasing the diversity in residency programs requires intentional planning for each step of recruitment. Use these resources to learn about evidence-based practices in holistic review of applications, as well as methods for reducing bias in the residency interview process.

Joint Guidelines for Protected Nonclinical Time for Faculty in Family Medicine Residency Programs

These guidelines, endorsed by the family medicine organizations, include recommendations for allocation of protected time for program directors, associate program directors, and core faculty. These represent best practices to ensure programs have appropriate time to devote to the nonclinical duties of training and educating residents, while also promoting innovation in education, faculty well-being, and faculty retention. Residency programs, sponsoring institutions, universities, health care systems, and accrediting bodies should use these recommendations to develop budgets that provide appropriate time allocation to enhance faculty wellness, reduce turnover, and meet organizational missions and objectives around education and providing care for communities.

Residency Accreditation Toolkit

Get tips, techniques, and tools to help your program meet ACGME accreditation requirements. Streamline processes, train your faculty, empower your residency coordinator, use technology for accreditation support, and create a culture of assessment and performance improvement. 

Resources for Reducing Mental Health Stigma for Faculty, Residents, and Students

Questions on state licensing applications and those used for hospital, medical group, and health plan credentialing should not deter physicians, faculty, residents, and students from getting the care they need. Use these resources to learn advocate for change.

STFM Resource Library

This shared, online library contains an extensive collection of resources uploaded by family medicine educators who are tired of “reinventing the wheel” every time they need curriculum or presentations. Visit the Resource Library to upload and access: conference presentations, curriculum, standardized patient cases, sample forms, policies, and guidelines, and more. 

TeachingPhysician.org

TeachingPhysician.org is a comprehensive online resource that streamlines training, answers questions, and communicates regularly with preceptors on your behalf. It helps institutions recruit, train, and retain community preceptors and meet accreditation requirements for faculty development. 

CERA (CAFM Educational Research Alliance)

Meet scholarly activity requirements through CERA, a free resource for medical educational research. With CERA you can survey family medicine educators, receive help from an experienced researcher, and access data from past surveys for secondary analysis.

Tips for New Researchers

Includes guidance on how to submit high-quality abstracts for STFM Conferences, implement quality improvement projects, and write a hypothesis.

STFM CONNECT

One of the greatest benefits of STFM membership is the opportunity to network and collaborate with others to address special interests and work toward common goals. STFM CONNECT, an online hub for Collaboratives, Special Project Teams, and Discussion Forums is the place to start if you’re interested in connecting and collaborating.

STFM Member Directory

Interact with thousands of family medicine educators from across the United States. The Membership Directory is available to STFM members only.

Quick Consult

Quick Consult is an online mentoring platform that links STFM members in search of guidance/advice with seasoned peers interested in sharing their wisdom and expertise.