The challenge posed to Family Medicine Interest Groups is to educate about family medicine and encourage students to get involved.
Family medicine offers a unique opportunity to the practicing physician and to their patients.
Family physicians provide care for the whole person and their entire family while serving as patient advocates, educators, and preventive health providers. In light of this core challenge, individual FMIGs face other challenges in executing their mission. The goal becomes to find a time when they can attend and plan activities that would interest them. Some other suggestions are to try other forms of communication to reach this population, and to ask for their suggestions for activities. Also, get them involved at the planning level where they can have more input and peer influence.