The Family Medicine Midwest (FMM) Faculty Development Collaborative (FDC) connects family medicine educators, leaders, and residents across an 11-state region to share best practices, exchange innovative teaching ideas, and build essential skills for training the next generation of physicians.

Why Join the Collaborative?

• Elevate Your Teaching: Gain the evolving instructional skills necessary to effectively train current and future undergraduate and graduate medical learners.
• Strengthen Your Support System: Access a vibrant forum where educators share resources, solve educational challenges, produce workshops, and help each other grow.
• Expand Your Network: Connect directly with peers, residency programs, and medical institutions via virtual meetings, workshops, and dedicated sessions at the annual FMM Conference.
• Advance Your Career: Build leadership capacity, accelerate the adoption of educational best practices, and contribute directly to strengthening the family medicine pipeline.

Who is Welcome?

We encourage active participation from the entire medical education spectrum across the Midwest, including:

• Undergraduate and graduate medical education faculty and staff
• Family medicine residents, fellows, and trainees
• Medical students interested in family medicine and teaching
• Members of the broader healthcare community dedicated to faculty development

How We Connect

The collaborative meets regularly throughout the year via Zoom and hosts dedicated in-person sessions at the FMM Annual Conference. Programs are highly encouraged to identify a dedicated faculty champion within their institution to participate in the Faculty Development Collaborative.

You choose your own level of involvement.

• Member Meetings (Even Months): Held on select Mondays from 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM (exact dates vary; please refer to the 12-month calendar). Each hour includes ~20 minutes for collaborative goals, updates, and member support, while the remaining time features a facilitated "Timely Topic" discussion.
• Planning Meetings (Odd Months): Held on an ad hoc basis to ensure FDC organization and long-term sustainability.
• Leadership Meetings (Quarterly): Strategic sessions for our leadership team, which includes the FDC Chair, FDC Chair-elect, Timely Topic Coordinator, and three Workshop Leads.

Get Involved

To request a calendar invite, lead a future Timely Topic conversation, or join our leadership team, please reach out to Lisa Stevak via email at lstevak@iafp.com.