BECOME THE PHYSICIAN YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO BE!
Pennsylvania is home to 55 family medicine residency programs, all of which have active voices in the PAFP. With the commitment of the programs, the PAFP has come close to 100 percent resident membership for the past several years, bringing resident members services, resources, and opportunities designed to enrich your residency experience.
Get Involved
Membership in the PAFP and AAFP opens a window to great leadership opportunities.
- Available leadership opportunities: The Resident Assembly represents the interests of residents in the PAFP. The Resident Chair sits on the Board of Directors and, with the Vice Chair and Delegates, sits on the Resident and Student Affairs Commission. We invite all resident members to participate in the annual meeting of the Resident Assembly and run for elected office or to be a commission representative.
- Meet your resident leaders: Say hello to your elected resident leaders! They'll gladly answer any questions you might have about resident involvement in the PAFP.
Tools
The PAFP offers plenty of assistance to help you through your residency.
Advocacy
Because you're a leader in your community for your profession and your patients, the PAFP works to provide you tools and evidence to help you advocate for your patients’ health and for a strong primary care system. Elected officials locally and nationally need to hear from you how decisions they make affect primary care and public health, and why they should care.
- Government Affairs: Protecting the interests of family physicians through lobbying efforts.
- PAFP-PAC: Furthering the goals and objectives of family medicine by supporting candidates who stand up for the interests of family physicians.
- Family Medicine Advocacy Day: join your PAFP at the state capitol in Harrisburg!
Conferences and Events
With membership in the PAFP, a whole world of exciting conferences, meetings and events opens before you!
- Research Day: Come present your original research to a friendly, supportive audience at the PAFP and Foundation's Research Day.
- AAFP's "FUTURE" (formerly AAFP National Conference): With hundreds of exhibitors and dozens of workshops and open business meetings, the AAFP's National Conference provides a wonderful opportunity to learn about family medicine.
- Family Medicine Education Consortium (FMEC) Annual Meeting: FMEC brings residency programs, med schools, residents & students from throughout the Northeast region of the US together each year for one of the largest, most inspiring events of the year. Submit to present, submit a poster, or just attend to tap into that FM magic to fill your bucket and find your people. A particularly great meeting for folks applying to FM - the residency fair brings together the largest collection of Northeast region programs. Come for the networking; stay for the community!
- RESIDENCY AND FELLOWSHIPS
We've put Pennsylvania's family medicine residency programs on the map! Click here for our map & directory of the family medicine residency programs. There are also fellowship programs in faculty development, research, geriatric medicine, palliative care and sports medicine offered in Pennsylvania.
