What is Family Medicine Midwest?
The Family Medicine Midwest conference was designed to help identify and support Midwest students interested in family medicine. |
| Minneapolis at night |
- Showcase Midwest family medicine residencies
- Provide a forum for scholarly work and research presentations
- Highlight community-based practice and best practice sharing
- Promote cooperative and collaborative health care innovation
The third annual conference will be held October 10-12, 2014, at Radisson Blu Hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
What to Expect This Year
This year's theme is Innovate and Invigorate. We are honored to have North Memorial residency faculty Andrew Slattengren, DO, chairing the conference committee.
Event highlights:
- 75 peer-reviewed educational sessions and posters
- Topics range from osteopathic manipulation to interprofessional care to underserved medicine to addressing vaccination concerns and beyond
- Representation from 44 family medicine residency programs
- Opportunities to network during residency speed dating lunch or in the exhibit hall
- Pre-conference sessions on hot topics
- Topics include global health, maternal care, and population health
- LIVE performance by Hippocrates Cafe, featuring faculty Jon Hallberg, MD
Meet Minneapolis
Visiting Minneapolis? Meet Minneapolis is an excellent resource for restaurants, cultural events, shopping, and more.
Connect With Us
A number of University of Minnesota medical students, residents, and faculty will be giving presentations, leading workshops, and presenting posters. Representatives from our eight family medicine residencies will also be exhibiting at the conference and meeting with medical students.
We'll be actively using social media throughout the conference:
- Follow us on Twitter: @UMNFamilyMed
- Like us on Facebook: z.umn.edu/familymedicinefacebook
- Be sure to follow the event hashtag: #FMMidwest
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