Travel
AAFP and chapter scholarships can help offset conference registration, travel, lodging, and meals.
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, 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
Get free travel.
AAFP has offered hundreds of student scholarships for FUTURE, including support for FMIG leaders. We can help surface deadlines and opportunities.
Travel + conferencesAnother 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 studiesRight now
A few concrete 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 + projects
Explore rural medicine research, posters, health-tech projects, and student innovation opportunities.
Want the opportunities sent to you?
One short form for leadership, volunteering, travel, events, mentorship, research, and more.
Links to national and Florida family medicine organizations. UMiami FMIG is a student organization.