AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS FDN

Family medicine leads focuses on ensuring the future of the family medicine specialty by supporting efforts to fill the workforce pathway with both the quantity and quality of family physicians needed to improve the health of all people, as well as by supporting the development of future family medicine leaders. In 2024, 276 scholarships were provided for family medicine residents and medical students to attend national conference, with the goal of influencing students residents' commitment to the specialty of family medicine. Family medicine leads emerging leader institute is a year-long leadership development program that brings together 30 participants following a competitive application process. It targets family medicine residents and medical students who display leadership potential but may or may have not had an opportunity to serve in a leadership role. Https://www.aafpfoundation.org/our-programs/education-initiatives.html

Center for history of family medicine: established in 1992, the center for the history of family medicine (chfm) curates and houses a library of archival repository, audiovisual materials and artifacts to share the history of family medicine within the united states. The chfm serves three important roles in one, as a historical research library, archive, and museum. The chfm also serves as the official repository for the 8 organizations which comprise the "family" of family medicine. Acting as the scribe for the specialty, the center for the history of family medicine (chfm) is dedicated to serving as the collective memory as well as informing the future. In 2024, the center: 1) held the fourth annual chfm student and resident essay contest to encourage future physicians to engage with the specialty's history to direct the future, awarding grants to two projects: "medicalizing marginalization: the role of the family physicians in treating the social determinants of health "the compendium of hardknocks: a window into the history of family medicine 2) awarded the fellowship award for a research project, "lessons in family medicine from the ancient greeks 3) awarded a grant for the creation of oral history interviews focused on family medicine to a project titled "healing beyond crisis: the lasting legacy of a pandemic on the health community in an underserved population", and 4) the number of tours, reference requests, and other engagements reached 753. Https://www.aafpfoundation.org/our-programs/center-history-family-medicine.html family medicine discovers: the aafp foundation's scientific program, in partnership with aafp national research network and dartnet, focuses on building a robust family medicine research infrastructure by cultivating scholarship and engagement among community family physicians. Family medicine discovers rapid cycle scientific discovery and innovation (fmd rapsdi) program seeks practicing family physicians with little or no research experience to generate new evidence and innovative models for "what works" in real-world primary care settings. In 2024, two scholars of the fmd rapsdi program started their respective projects: 1) assessing the impact of a virtual sel-management education course on symptoms and quality of life for adults living with long covid, and 2) exploring the feasibility of using wearable fitness trackers and ai-delivered text messaging to provide self-management education and support for adults living with type 2 diabetes. Https://www.aafpfoundation.org/our-programs/scientific-initiatives.html