Increasing the representation of female and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color identities among family medicine faculty leaders is important for improving health outcomes. Prior studies don’t clarify whether these gains stem from recruitment or retention: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...
The 2022 transition of USMLE Step 1 scoring to pass/fail altered a key metric used by programs to select students to interview for residency. This study explores family medicine clerkship directors’ perceptions of how students now distinguish themselves: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) affect nearly two-thirds of the US population and have long-lasting consequences on health and well-being. Integrating ACEs education into medical curricula is vital to equip future physicians to address these effects: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...
@stfm-fm.bsky.social sponsored the Leadership Through Scholarship Fellowship to address the minority tax and help URM faculty navigate the complex academic environment. What factors were associated with a high hunger for success in the fellowship?
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Drawing on 2024 CERA study data, this study investigates family physician educators’ perceptions of mental health stigma, their help-seeking intentions, and the obstacles they encounter when pursuing support: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...
Infographics blend text and graphics to communicate a memorable message to a target audience. Presenting educational material in this format helps facilitate understanding and recall of concepts.
Here are some tips for turning your teaching into an infographic for publication.
Medical education continues to evolve to reflect changes and advancements in science, technology, and society. Regular curriculum review is key to ensuring students are prepared to learn and practice in the ever-changing landscape of education and health care.
The April issue of Family Medicine is now available! In this month's issue, several articles highlight innovative approaches to teaching concepts that family physicians regularly practice.
Editorial: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...
Each red block, a student without a placement. Burned-out physicians said yes anyway.
A narrative essay on mission, medical education, and tomorrow’s workforce, from Baharak Tabarsi, MD: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...
In this narrative essay, Crystal Marquez, MD, explains how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) shaped her today, and how she applies her experiences and knowledge as a family physician.
"In the Arena: A Narrative of Grit, Resilience, and Becoming": journals.stfm.org/familymedici...
"I am a family physician with a busy academic practice.
In the chaos of medicine, I have found a parallel life, one that remains largely private. I am also a wildlife photographer."
In this narrative essay, we learn of a "different kind of medicine": journals.stfm.org/familymedici...
"As a medical student preparing to become a family medicine resident, I didn’t spend much time thinking about death. ... Death was something I mentally pushed to the back burner...
Then residency started."
"The Silent Grief in Residency": journals.stfm.org/familymedici...
"In the hospital corridors, the footsteps rise and fall incessantly: family members rushing in, medical staff hurrying about, patients being discharged after recovery."
"The Symphony of the Hospital Corridor": journals.stfm.org/familymedici...
Results of this study showed a higher use of low-level complexity CPT codes during the COVID-19 public health emergency expansion of the Primary Care Exception. This finding has important implications for both clinic operations and education: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...
Didactic training in residency is crucial for competency development. Transitioning to a hybrid academic half-day model was associated with improved resident engagement, satisfaction, attendance, and educational value compared to the noon conference model: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...
This month's President's Column is adapted from Dr Lin's presidential address at the 2026 STFM Medical Student Education Conference, approximately 1 week after the shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti by federal immigration enforcement agents: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...
In this study, funding emerged as the category of research metrics viewed as most important by the greatest number of family medicine department chairs: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...
The purpose of this scoping review was to identify the primary dimensions of the concept of graduate medical education competencies for rural practice settings and describe the related evidence and gaps in the literature: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...
Self-care during medical education is challenging for both students and faculty, and results in high rates of burnout and depression. Innovative curricula such as HEART-IM may provide a valuable lens for improving medical education for learners and faculty: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...
While HCV treatment has been simplified over the past decade, treatment by early-career family physicians has declined. Despite this decline, early-career family physicians have higher rates of HCV treatment in higher-need areas and medically underserved settings: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...
This study examines family medicine program directors’ perceptions on fear of retaliation from resident physicians as a barrier to faculty completing honest, high-quality evaluations: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...
Study of DISC has been limited among physicians and has anecdotally been described as useful within work environment communication, productivity, and teamwork. To facilitate productive conflict, it is essential to communicate effectively with each DISC personality type.
Mentorship is associated with career satisfaction and scholarly achievement in academic medicine. Faculty who are culturally or ethnically underrepresented in medicine have fewer opportunities for mentorship due to lack of understanding of their unique needs for career building.
In the March 2026 issue guest editorial, Dr Randall Longenecker reflects on the nature of physician competence, arguing that true competence integrates skills with character traits like integrity, adaptability, and resilience.
Read the editorial: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...
Recent evidence has suggested that fewer family medicine clerkships are using community preceptors as their primary source of teaching. This study looks at trends in payment of community preceptors in the United States and Canada over the past decade: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...
By outlining how historical inquiry operates in practice, this paper gives researchers a starting point for bringing historical perspectives into their own studies and for opening lines of inquiry that fall outside the reach of contemporary data: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...
Clinically significant adverse events affect clinicians at all levels and can include stress, guilt, and doubt about abilities. The medical student experience may be different and could impact professional identity formation: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...
Cognitive ethnography integrates cognitive theory and ethnography to examine physicians’ real-world problem solving. In family medicine, this approach informs workplace design and training by deepening understanding of diagnostic and management processes: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...
The use of large language models and natural language processing (NLP) in medical education has expanded rapidly in recent years. BA bidirectional encoder representations from transformers model can detect sentiment in medical student course evaluations: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...
Psychological safety in graduate medical education influences key aspects of the clinical learning environment, including feedback and assessment. Here, the authors present a framework to evaluate workshop-based interventions: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...