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News from the 2016 AAFP National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students: 

Students pass resolutions on patient welfare, training issues

Delegates to the AAFP's National Congress of Student Members adopted a resolution calling for the Academy to advocate for maintaining funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Delegates also adopted resolutions asking the AAFP to consider developing resources for rural training, develop a position paper on lead contamination and lobby for an end to the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 2 Clinical Skills requirement for US medical school graduates.

Residents, Students Elect New Leaders at 2016 National Conference

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Program of Excellence (PoE) Award Winners

Each year, the AAFP Family Medicine Interest Group (FMIG) Network recognizes FMIGs that exhibit exemplary efforts in all of the following areas: infrastructure, student involvement/retention, family medicine advocacy, and community outreach/patient advocacy. View the 2010 PoE award winners.

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Is your FMIG looking for some new programming ideas? The PoE Award applications can help you discover new ideas for communicating, recruiting members, fundraising, and workshops. Check out the award winners and learn what other FMIGs are doing.

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