The purpose of the Family Medicine Interest Group is to allow students to discover family medicine on a local, state, and national level. At the local level, the goal is education and promotion of the mission of the ECU School of Medicine in providing North Carolina with quality family physicians. FMIG holds monthly meetings featuring speakers who focus on aspects of the specialty. Members are also trained in skills necessary for service projects such as blood pressure screening. FMIG has recently undertaken a new annual service project at the Boys and Girls Club of Greenville.
Students screen the childdren for everything from lice to neurological deficits.
This is a fun project for both the students and the children, and everyone is encouraged to participate. Each summer, FMIG sends members to Kansas City to the National Conference of Family Practice Residents and Students.