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The Family Medicine Interest Group at the 51��Ʒ��Ƶ School of Medicine received the 2018 Award of Excellence for Innovative Programming at the American Academy of Family Physicians National Conference in Kansas City in early August.

Elise Pearson and Sarah Minney, both members of the 51��Ʒ��Ƶ School of Medicine’s Class of 2020, accepted the award on behalf of the group, which promotes advocacy, service and education regarding current issues in family medicine. Both are coordinators for the group.

The group’s initiatives, which helped earn them the award, included connecting with local organizations to offer blood pressure and blood sugar screenings at health fairs, holding a fundraiser and day of service benefiting a local food pantry, hosting a family medicine mixer event for students to meet family medicine physicians in an informal setting, and participating in the creation of a five-session mini-elective for students called “Transitions: Primary Care’s Role in Addiction Medicine.”