PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF FAMILY

Supports educational activities that expose medical students and residents to the profession of family medicine.direct exposure to family practice is one of the most effective ways of building medical student interest and addressing the critical shortage of family physicians in pennsylvania. Introduces future physicians to the family medicine specialty by providing medical students with scholarships to attend the national conference of family practice residents and medical students, a meeting to encourage medical students to pursue a career in family practice.the family practice educational fund (fpef) was created in 1991 to support medical school activities for students interested in pursuing a career in family practice. Medical school graduates, local component chapters of the academy, and members of the academy and the american academy of family physicians donate the funds for this program. Fpef criteria require funds be used only to support group activities such as educational meetings, speaker fees, etc., and not for individual activities.