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Collaboratives
Launched in 2024 by the Family Medicine Midwest Foundation, with support from the American Board of Family Medicine, the FMM Learning Network brings Family Medicine Residency Programs (FMRPs) together across the Midwest to collaborate, scale up innovations, and improve care. Learning networks have a well-established track record of strengthening educational, clinical, and administrative capacity—ultimately improving both training quality and health outcomes.
We are on a mission to build a community where people and programs connect, share resources, and engage in continuous learning and development in pursuit of improving clinical training and outcomes.
The FMM Learning Network welcomes all Family Medicine Residency Programs (FMRPs) and their affiliated faculty, residents, and staff across our eleven-state region: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Medical students and medical schools are also encouraged to join. Research shows students who participate in scholarly activities with FMRPs or Departments of Family Medicine are more likely to choose a career in family medicine.
We are a collaborative, mission-driven community focused on enhancing residency training, strengthening the Family Medicine pipeline, and improving health outcomes. While rooted in the Midwest, we actively partner with individuals and institutions nationwide who share our commitment.
Participation in a learning network is strongly encouraged by the ACGME, and for good reason:
The FMM Learning Network makes active participation easy. Regular meetings and workshops provide primary care professionals a valuable opportunity to connect with peers, residency programs, and institutions across eleven states. Members collaborate, share ideas, support one another, and strengthen competencies through multi-site projects and targeted training. These enhanced skillsets and networks empower faculty, residents, students, and clinicians to advance their practice and career, enrich graduate and undergraduate medical education, accelerate the adoption of best practices, and improve health outcomes.
Whether you're a faculty member, resident, staff, or medical student, you’ll find meaningful opportunities to connect, learn, and lead.
The FMM Learning Network is organized into three physician-led collaboratives, each with defined leadership and goals:
We encourage you to explore these collaboratives to determine how they can support you and your program.
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Launched in 2022, the Scholarly Activity Collaborative aims to create a network to improve residency scholarship through multi-site collaboration with the ultimate goal to improve health outcomes.
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Inaugurated in 2023, the Faculty Development Collaborative offers a virtual support system where educators come together, learn from each other, and disseminate information to the wider medical community.
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Established in 2023 at the Family Medicine Midwest Annual Conference, this collaborative serves as a thinktank to increase, promote and sustain equitable birthing practices across Family Medicine.
Whether you’re guiding a program, teaching tomorrow’s physicians, or just starting your journey, the FMM Learning Network offers a community that supports your mission and strengthens your impact.
FMM collaboratives meet throughout the year via Zoom and in person at the FMM Annual Conference. Email Lisa Stevak to learn more and get involved.