Welcome to the Family Medicine Interest Group! The Family Medicine Interest Group provides information and resources that enable students to explore the field of family medicine.

• Goals
• Contact Us
• Activities
• Family and Community Medicine Career Advisors
• Coming Opportunities
• Family Medicine Organizations
• Questions about Family Medicine?
• Residency Information
• Loan Repayment/Primary Care Scholarships
• Additional Resources

Goals of the FMIG include:

• Introducing students to primary care medicine in general and to family/community medicine in particular.

• Giving students exposure to the wide range of professional options available to family medicine practitioners, including research, rural and urban practice, international medicine, working with the underserved, and many others.

• Enabling students to meet faculty members, practicing family physicians, residents, and older students who can serve as role models and/or mentors throughout the educational process and beyond.

Contact Us:

If you have any questions about Family Medicine or the Family Medicine Interest Group, you can contact:

Faculty advisor for the Family Medicine Interest Group:
Margo Vener, MD, MPH mvener@fcm.ucsf.edu

Coordinator of FMIG activities: Roy Johnston johnstonr@fcm.ucsf.edu

Student coordinators of FMIG:

• 2007-2008:
  Carrie Cunningham Carrie.Cunningham@ucsf.edu
  Megan Swanson Megan.Swanson@ucsf.edu
  
• 2006-2007:
  Brook Calton
  Jolene Collins
  Lauren Hubner
  Samreen Hassan
  Kali Stanger
  
• 2005-2006:
  Aruna Venkatesan
  David Brody
  Julia Song
  Kavita Mishra
  
• 2004-2005: Brian (Yoshi) Laing
  
• 2003-2004: Kyle Luman
  
• 2002-2003: Kristen Kelly

Activities, 2004-2005

• September 2004: Celebration of Family Medicine, Department of Family Medicine
• October 2004: Welcome Dinner for New Medical Students
• November 2004: Primary Care Week: Caring for the Underserved
• April 2005: Fourth Year Students Share: Residency Application
• June 2005: The Range of Career Options in Family Medicine

Activities, 2003-2004

• September 2003: Welcome Dinner for New Medical Students
• November 2003: Primary Care Week with focus on different career options within primary care
• December 2003: Is Family Medicine For Me?

Activities, 2002-2003

• September 2002: Welcome Dinner for New Medical Students
• November 2002: Primary Care Week
• February 2003: Panel, Family and Community Medicine and Research
• March 2003: Resident Panel

Family and Community Medicine Career Advisors

• William Shore, MD shorew@fcm.ucsf.edu
• Margo Vener, MD mvener@fcm.ucsf.edu
• Shieva Khayam-Bashi, MD skhayambashi@fcm.ucsf.edu

Career Information from Dr. Shore

Family and Community Medicine Department, UCSF

UCSF Center on Social Disparities in Health (CSDH)

Coming Opportunities

• California Academy of Family Physicians Summer Preceptorships in Rural Areas (scholarships available). Website: http://www.familydocs.org/preceptorship_program.php

• Pisacano Scholarship: Two UCSF Students won this national, highly competitive scholarship in 2005. Everyone interested in family medicine should apply the spring before their fourth year! Application due: March each year. Website: http://www.fpleaders.org/leaderfrm.html

Family Medicine Organizations

• American Board of Family Practice: The ABFP is the medical specialty board responsible for the establishment of high standards of excellence in the specialty of Family Medicine and for the design and administration of the family medicine specialty certification examination.
• American Academy of Family Physicians: The AAFP is a national medical association of family physicians, family medicine residents and medical students whose purpose is to promote and maintain high quality standards among family physicians and to provide advocacy on behalf of patients and the profession.
• Society of Teachers of Family Medicine: STFM is an academic family medicine organization which strives "to enhance family medicine education by developing and supporting a community of educators, scholars and clinicians."
• North American Primary Care Research Group: NAPCRG is a multidisciplinary organization which fosters the development of primary care research.
• Association of Family Practice Residency Directors: The AFPRD promotes excellence in family medicine graduate medical education.
• Collaborative Family HealthCare Coalition: The CFHcC is a multi-disciplinary group of health care professionals who study, implement and advocate for the collaborative family health care paradigm.
• World Organization of Family Doctors: A world-wide partnership of family medicine organizations.
• Virtual Family Medicine Interest Group
• California Academy of Family Physicians
• American Academy of Family Physicians
• Society of Teachers of Family Medicine

Questions about Family Medicine?

Contact the Confidential Family/Community Medicine Advisors. (They have nothing to do with the residency selection process!)

• Michael Potter potterm@fcm.ucsf.edu
• Brian Herrick Brian.Herrick@ucsfmedctr.org

Career Information from Dr. Potter

Residency Information

American Academy of Family Physicians Residency Information

Examples of family medicine residencies in Northern and Central California:

• Davis
• Fresno
• Martinez
• Merced
• Pomona
• Salinas
• San Francisco
• San Jose
• Santa Rosa

For a list of all family medicine residencies in the state of California, see this American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) directory.

For general information about residency programs in all specialties across the US, see the American Medical Association's Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database (FREIDA) information.

Loan Repayment/Primary Care Scholarships

• California Physician Corps: The California Physician and Dental Corps is a loan repayment program for doctors and dentists designed to increase health and dental care access in the underserved populations of California. The program offers up to $105,000 in loan forgiveness to participating primary care doctors and dentists in exchange for a 3-year service commitment in a medically/dentally underserved area of the state.
  
  
• National Health Services Corps: The National Health Services Corps (NHSC) recruits and places health professionals at eligible sites within federally designated HPSAs. NHSC recruitsprimary care physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, certified nurse-midwives, dentists, dental hygienists, and mental health professionals. These providers serve in community-based systems of care in return for scholarship or loan repayment assistance.
  
  
• Pisacano Scholarship: Applications are available for entering fourth year U.S. medical students who have declared Family Medicine as their specialty. The Pisacano Scholars Leadership Program will provide education programs, leadership training and funding over a four-year period to award recipients. Funds are intended to reduce medical-school debt and are not based on financial need. Applicants will be judged on their commitment to Family Medicine, leadership qualities, academic performance, and involvement in helping others. Deadline: March.
  
  
• General scholarship information is available from FedMoney.org.
  
  
• Financial Assistance Fund for UCSF medical students matching at a UCSF Family Medicine Residency Program Dr. C.E. Wells Alumni Assistance Fund in Family and Community Medicine

Additional Resources

Please take a look at the following  publication: Practice Profiles in Family Medicine An Inside Look at the Most Diverse Specialty in California This excellent resource was published by the CAFP and includes a profile on the UCSF Family Medicine Center at Lakeshore.

PDF: http://www.familydocs.org/practiceprofiles/PracticeProfiles.pdf

Website: http://www.familydocs.org/practiceprofiles/