RESIDENT PARTICIPATION AT NATIONAL SGIM MEETINGS. D.W. Brady 1 , L.J. Schultz 1 , W.T. Branch 2 ; 1 Emory University, Decatur, GA; 2 Emory Healthcare, Atlanta, GA OBJECTIVES: 1. Expose residents to general medicine career options by having them attend National SGIM meetings. 2. Encourage residents to participate in National SGIM meetings by submitting vignettes, abstracts, and workshops. METHODS: Our residency training grant affords us the opportunity to send all 10 of our second-year primary car residents to the national SGIM meeting each year. We encourage the residents to actively participate in the meeting by collaborating with faculty on workshops and submitting their own research abstracts or clinical vignettes. By exposing them to generalists from various institutions and supporting their own scholarly activity, we hope they will pursue generalist careers and remain active in SGIM. RESULTS: Beginning with the 1998 SGIM meeting in Chicago and including this year's meeting in San Diego, we have brought 40 second-year residents to national SGIM meetings. In 1998, all 10 residents collaborated on a workshop that won the David E. Rogers Award. In 1999, two of those residents returned as senior residents to present research posters. In 2000, three third-year residents presented research posters, and one second-year resident presented a clinical vignette poster. This year, one second-year resident is co-leading a workshop while the othe 9 second-year residents are all submitting clinical vignettes. So far, 90% of our graduates have remained in general internal medicine, with approximately 50% obtaining academicallyaffiliated positions. CONCLUSION: By exposing our residents to the myriad of people and opportunities afforded them at national SGIM meetings, we encourage them to remain excited about generalist careers and to pursue their own academic interests. We believe their attendance at the national SGIM meetings is an integral part of our internal medicine primary care residency program and our HRSA grant.