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Residents
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Resident President
Ashley Schaefer, MD
Advocate Lutheran General Family Medicine Residency
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Resident President-elect
Delegate to 2024 AAFP National Conference.
Jun Hwan Park, MD
University of Illinois at Peoria FMR
Application for Resident President-Elect is now open and due April 30. Learn more about the role and apply here.
New Webinar: What Can You Do with Family Medicine? (hint: a lot!) View the Recording and download the slides.
AAFP Fellowship Directory - use their search engine to find fellowships by state, program and more! See more https://www.aafp.org/students-residents/residents/transition-into-practice/find-fellowships.html
AAFP Webinar 1/20/22 What Every Resident Needs to Know about Negotiating Their First Contract View the Recording on YouTube
Link to AAFP Resources on Employment and Contracts
AAFP Fellowship Directory - use their search engine to find fellowships by state, program and more!
Open to all Resident Members
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 - Presentations all day long!
Illinois Family Medicine Residents and Fellows are invited to compete in a statewide, online forum – no travel required! **Residents who are not presenting are welcome to login on to observe the presentations! All members will be invited to log in and observe presentations. CME credit will be offered. Consider live-streaming the virtual summit at your program so that residents and faculty can stop by and view at any time during their day!
Research may be completed or in-progress. We will have seeparate categories for each. The top scoring presentation in each category will win an Amazon gift card (delivered electronically)
In order to be considered a Completed Project, your presentation should contain the following: background on your topic, a clinical question and hypothesis, discussion of methodology and/or intervention and discussion of results. Educational projects completed would have Background, educational aim needs assessment (both general lit review and targeted needs assessment), learner objectives, discussion of format methods, description of the curriculum and discussion of the evaluation results.
Research in Progress presentations do not need to have final analysis or results. However, the participant should be able to discuss the other components of the project and the plan for the rest of the project. Educational projects in progress need to have a needs assessment (at least a general lit review and a targeted needs assessment), learner objectives and discussion of format methods done or planned, description of the curriculum and planned evaluation methods if not yet completed.
*Presentations are limited to a maximum 15 minutes and a maximum of 25 slides. (can be shorter). *Presentation time slots will be sent to the LEAD presenter only the week of May 5. The lead presenter must reply to accept that slot or request a different time, if needed and also inform all co-presenters directly. *All presentations (PowerPoint or Google slides) and head shot photos must be submitted by May 15 for review or you will not be allowed to present. You may update your presentation for May 21 if you need to.
Presenters are scored on
1) the quality of their research design Note for educational project design-clear learner objectives, sound data for general and/or targeted needs assessments, curriculum design description, documented or planned evaluation strategies. (Note, check the Research-in-progress checkbox for Educational work in-progress, too)
2) the quality of their slides
3) the relevance to family medicine,
4) their verbal presentation and
5) their responses to questions. For an in-progress educational project- a demonstrated commitment to the project. Is this educational effort currently on track for meaningful educational outcomes that will benefit clinical learners in family medicine?
Questions may be directed to Ginnie Flynn 773-754-1185 or gflynn@iafp.com.
2024 Top Scoring Presentations
Research in Progress
Brian Nocito DO and Glenn Lorentz, DO - AdventHealth Hinsdale Family Medicine Residency
Evaluation of resuscitative efforts on patients in cardiopulmonary arrest regarding code duration and all-cause mortality
Completed Project
Carolina Sarmento DO - AdventHealth Hinsdale Family Medicine Residency
Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy and the Social Environment: Which Additional Risk Factors Emerge in a Low Socioeconomic Status Population