(齐康网) STFM has taken the lead in the family organizations on Recommendation#8 of the Future of Family Medicine report, namely "To promotea sufficient family medicine workforce." As the FFM educationalprogramming is woven into all STFM-sponsored conferences thisyear, we must now consider how we take on phase 2, "to initiatepremedical school recruitment."
Now how do we do this? How do we affect the pipeline of studentsinto family medicine before they enter medical school? Maybewe have been too passive about the recruitment into medicalschool. We need an intensive, personal, public relations driveby each STFM member to find 2 or 3 more of us, for the future,recruited by us from the ranks of the children and teens andyoung adults in the communities we serve. We guide them andmentor them and then they join us and replace us as family physiciansin the community. This is particularly important if we practicewith medically underserved and other vulnerable populations,since we see yearly that, with rare exception, the childrenin these communities have little chance of entering medicalschool.1281
Suppose each and every family physician and educator took thison as his or her personal crusade, to fill the next generation?It seems daunting, but romantic, and yet pragmatic. We havebeen drawn to family medicine out of a sense of mission. Nowit is time for us to pass on and rekindle that passion thatdrove us into this marvelous patient care field that cares forfamilies, for communities, for whole people.
So STFM will take on several activities: (1) We will collectstories as we survey you about your current mentoring activitiesor those of your mentors. (2) We will survey you to find outabout existing pipeline programs. (3) We will create a campaignto stimulate mentoring activities by family physicians and teachersof family physicians. (4) We will develop a toolkit with resourcesto support your mentoring and role modeling activities withstudents and schools, from grade school to college.
(文章出处：《家庭医学史册》)齐康网
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