July 31–Aug 2, 2025
The National Conference for The FUTURE of Family Medicine
2025 Workshop Call for Proposals
The submission of proposals process has closed.
The FUTURE Planning Committee is seeking educational programming for allopathic and osteopathic students and residents that showcases the broad scope of family medicine. You’re invited to submit one or more workshop proposals.
Attendees are interested in interactive formats, innovative ways of learning about family medicine, and topics they may not generally be exposed to as part of their medical school or residency training.
Workshops will focus on these content tracks:
- Career
- Clinical
- Practice
View topics suggested by attendees within each track. Sessions should include no more than four total presenters.
Please note that workshops may not be used as a forum for advertising specific programs, products, or services.
The submission of proposals process has closed.
Based on attendee feedback, resident and student suggested topics include:
Career
- Advocacy
- Advocating In and For Communities
- Health Care Policy and Economics
- Health Care Reform
- Lobbying
- Social Justice
- Career Exploration
- Academic Medicine
- A Week in the Life of a Family Physician
- Enhancing the Educational Path to Family Medicine
- Global Health
- Rural Medicine
- Urban Medicine
- Career Planning/Employment Basics
- Contract Negotiations
- CV Preparation
- Interviewing
- Exam Prep: USMLE/COMLEX-USA
- Financial Aspects of Being a Family Physician
- Leadership
- Conflict Resolution
- Delegation
- Integrative Problem Solving
- Media Training/Social Media
- Mentorship/Finding Mentors
- Organized Medicine
- Personal Finance
- Budgeting
- Debt Management
- Finding Financial Support
- Tax/Retirement Planning
- Physician Well-being
- Research
- Clinical Research
- Community-Based Participatory Research
- Research Skills
- Scope of Practice
- Specialty Choice
- Transitioning into Residency/Practice
- Fellowships
- First-Year Resident Survival
- Residency Selection
- Value of Primary Care
- Values-Driven Professionalism
- Workforce Development
- Workforce Diversity/URiM Support
- Workforce Projections and the Need for Family Medicine
- Work/Life Balance
Clinical
- Addiction Medicine
- Behavioral Health
- Bone and Joint Conditions
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular Medicine
- Chronic Disease Management/Complex Care
- Dermatology
- Disaster Preparedness and Recovery
- Doctor-Patient Relationships
- Communication Skills
- Continuity of Care
- Patient-Centered Care
- Emergency and Urgent Care
- Endocrine
- Geriatrics
- Hospital/Inpatient Medicine
- Infectious Disease
- Integrative Medicine
- LGBTQI+ Health
- Lifestyle Medicine
- Medical Aid in Dying
- Medical Marijuana
- Mental Health
- Neurologic Conditions
- Occupational Medicine
- Osteopathic Techniques
- Outpatient Procedures
- Pain Management
- Palliative Care
- Pediatrics
- Pregnancy Care
- Refugee and Migrant Health
- Remote Monitoring (Cardiac, INR, Continuous Glucose Monitoring)
- Reproductive Health and Gynecologic Care
- Respiratory Conditions
- Sports Medicine/Musculoskeletal
- Telehealth/Telemedicine
- Trauma-Informed Care
- Wound Care
Practice
- Coding
- Community Medicine
- Digital Health
- Direct Primary Care (DPC)
- Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs)
- Health Equity
- Health Promotion
- Health Technology/New Technology in Medicine
- Home-Based Primary Care
- Independent Solo/Small Group Practice
- Information Systems
- Interdisciplinary Teams
- Locum Tenens
- Medical Legal
- Models of Health Care Delivery
- Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)
- Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH)
- Value-Based Care (VBC)
- Office Design
- Organizational Change/Change Management
- Population Health
- Practice Finance
- Public Health
- Quality Improvement
- Social Justice
- Systems-Based Practice
- Teaching Health Centers (THCs)
The FUTURE Conference Planning Committee will evaluate each workshop proposal on the following:
- Value of topic to residents and medical students
- Relevance to family medicine
- Quality of learning objectives
- Use of learning format/tools to encourage audience interaction
- Demonstration of evidence-based medicine
- Speaker credentials
- Past speaker ratings (if applicable)
- Overall quality of proposal
- Alignment with National Conference programming goals
Workshop applications will undergo a multi-step review process. Notifications will be sent to all submitters in Spring 2025.
Questions?
Email Rachel Larsen.
