Travel + funding
AAFP, FAFP, and outside scholarships can offset conference costs and medical school expenses.
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.
Useful from day one.
FMIG should give you things worth doing on their own, not just another line on a CV.
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 + deadlinesAnother 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 studiesResearch • 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Links to national and Florida family medicine organizations. UMiami FMIG is a student organization.