Student Interest Group

The Family Medicine Student Interest Group is a student-run organization designed to promote the profession of family practice by: increasing the awareness of and interest in family practice; distributing information about family practice; educating medical students about family practice; encouraging communication between members and faculty; and providing/developing medical student leadership opportunities.

 

Programs and activities include:
  • Follow-A-Mom (students follow an expectant mother throughout various stages of her pregnancy and are present for the delivery)
  • Follow-A-Resident ( students follow a resident on-call and observe triage phone calls, emergency room visits, and admissions)
  • Strolling through the Match (a guidebook/forum developed to help medical students through the process of residency selection)
  • Brown bag lunches/ lunches with various departmental faculty

 

Any medical student interested in Family Medicine is encouraged to become involved with the student interest group. See links below for other resources for students interested in Family Medicine.

For more information about the group or its various activities, please contact any of the officers below.

2005-2006 FMIG OFFICERS:

Stephanie Jellison - sej6n@virginia.edu

Grace Appiah - gda5f@virginia.edu

Kisha Young - kjy6e@virginia.edu

Melissa Fullerton - mjf4e@virginia.edu

Amit Phull - ap3g@virginia.edu

 

FAMILY MEDICINE MENTOR PROGRAM

Medical Students interested in Primary Care often feel isolated in a large hospital with numerous sub-specialties.  The Department of Family Medicine offers a way for you to make our home your home during medical school.  We invite you to come to our events, get to know our community of physicians, and meet other students interested in primary care.

One way to explore Primary Care is to sign up for our Mentor Program.  Interested students will be paired with a Family Physician mentor.   Students and mentors will be encouraged to meet occasionally to share interests and talk about a career in primary care.  Students may connect with their mentors at any of our weekly (Friday lunch) Grand Rounds series.  Students may shadow their mentors in clinic or on the wards and other informal activities can be planned with your mentor.

Mentors include Family Medicine faculty and community Family Physicians.  We will make an effort to pair mentors and students with similar interests (for example, obstetrics, rural medicine, international medicine, academic medicine, research, or women's health).

We hope you will take advantage of this informal, personal way to contemplate a career in Primary Care. 

 PLEASE CONTACT:

Wanda Hudson, Predoctoral Program Coordinator if interested in this program.  924-1609; wmh9v@virginia.edu

 

 

Links for Students Interested in Family Medicine

National Family Medicine Interest Group
Virtual FMIG provides information and resources that empower a student to explore the discipline of family medicine, and topics such as, career choice, role models, leadership development, the Match, residency, clinical resources, technology, and much more.

American Academy of Family Physicians
This web site contains information about the specialty of family practice, a private area for AAFP members, patient education materials, fellowship opportunities, faculty placement services, residency programs, and much more.