University of Miami Family Medicine Interest Group

Keep your options open.

Travel, volunteer, meet physicians, build leadership experience, and see what family medicine actually looks like. You do not have to be committed to family medicine to join.

Build a strong medical school experience. FMIG can connect you with leadership, research, travel, mentorship, innovation, rural and underserved medicine, fellowships, scholarships, and broad clinical exposure while you build a career around the kind of physician you want to become.

Medical students at an AAFP FUTURE conference
AAFP FUTURE

Useful from day one.

FMIG should give you things worth doing on their own, not just another line on a CV.

Travel + funding

AAFP, FAFP, and outside scholarships can offset conference costs and medical school expenses.

Do something real

Volunteer, lead a project, present a poster, join advocacy, or help build an event.

Build your path

Explore the clinical, academic, entrepreneurial, rural, policy, and leadership sides of family medicine.

One practical reason to join

Find funding early.

We track family medicine and general medical-student scholarships with real deadlines, including AAFP, FAFP, NHSC, Pisacano, White Coat Investor, and more.

Scholarships + deadlines

Another reason

See what the career can actually look like.

Employed outpatient practice is only one version. Family physicians also own practices, work in sports medicine, build DPC clinics, teach, lead organizations, and work in public health and policy.

Careers + case studies

Research • innovation • career development

Opportunities you can actually join.

Use FMIG to find concrete projects, mentors, research questions, fellowships, and organizations that can turn an interest into a body of work.

HEALTH TECH

TruCost Health internships + projects

Work on healthcare price transparency, medication and procedure access, primary-care affordability, rural and underserved data, or patient-facing tools. Projects can span clinical review, research, data, product, operations, and strategy.

RESEARCH

Rural + underserved medicine

Join or build research around access, workforce shortages, affordability, population health, care delivery, and outcomes in rural or underserved communities, with paths toward abstracts, posters, and publications.

CAREER PATH

Fellowships + focused training

Explore how family physicians develop deeper expertise through sports medicine, geriatrics, addiction medicine, maternal health, palliative care, academic medicine, global health, and other post-residency pathways.

LEADERSHIP + FUNDING

Scholarships, grants + national leadership

Track application dates for scholarships, conference funding, research awards, advocacy roles, national leadership programs, and chapter opportunities.

Right now

A few more ways to get involved without making this your entire extracurricular life.

Open positions

Programming, community outreach, communications, and project-based leadership roles.

Volunteering

Community projects and service events that are useful whether or not you choose FM.

Research + posters

Bring an existing project, find collaborators, or turn useful work into an abstract or presentation.

Want the opportunities sent to you?

One short form for leadership, volunteering, travel, events, mentorship, research, fellowships, health-tech projects, scholarships, and more.

American Academy of Family Physicians

Links to national and Florida family medicine organizations. UMiami FMIG is a student organization.