The BUSM Family Medicine Interest Group (FMIG) was started by Boston University School of Medicine Students and the Department of Family Medicine in the late nineties. Currently we have 83 student members and the group is continuously growing. Dr. Lana Habash, a clinical faculty member in the Department of Family Medicine, is the groups' Faculty Advisor and supports activities and events along with student elected Co-Leaders.
 
The FMIG was created with the purpose of increasing awareness and interest in Family Medicine, as well as helping anyone interested in pursuing a career in Family Medicine. All of our activities are open to non-member students so that we might educate all medical students about Family Medicine. We offer a variety of events: seminars and conferences, dinners, workshops, and more - throughout the year that may interest students considering areas of medicine. Being involved with FMIG provides educational and informational opportunities not provided through the traditional medical school curriculum, to assist students seeking residencies in Family Medicine, helps to assist you with opportunities to attend state and national conventions, provides the opportunity to build relationships with Family Medicine faculty and create a unity between FMIG colleagues.

Join The Group!

If you are a BUSM student and are interested in joining the BUSM Family Medicine Interest Group please contact either FMIG student co-leader: Joline Swonger (joline@bu.edu ), Alison Sullivan (alisons@bu.edu) or Ann Eapen (eeapen@bu.edu), or you may contact the Family Medicine Student Program Manager at Regina.Jungbluth@bmc.org. FMIG is open to all BUSM students interested in learning about the specialty of Family Medicine. * There are no dues.

Graduating Class of 2004

The 2004 BUSM graduating class had 12 students match into Family Medicine Residency programs; 3 of those students joined the Boston University Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program! Congratulations to Brian Penti, Eileen Pierce, and Heather Miselis.

Interested in a having a Family Medicine Advisor?

Please contact the Family Medicine Student Program Manager Regina Jungbluth at Regina.Jungbluth@bmc.org.

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FMIG 2004-2005 Co-Leaders

Ann Eapen	Alison Sullivan	Joline Swonger
eapee@bu.edu	alisons@bu.edu	joline@bu.edu

FMIG Faculty Advisor

Lana Habash, MD (lana.habash@bmc.org)
Dr. Habash attended the University of Maryland, School of Medicine and completed her residency at the University of Massachusetts Family Practice Residency program. She has focused on community health care settings in urban underserved populations, maternal-infant health, and has worked extensively with Healthcare for the Homeless. Dr. Habash is a member of the AAFP; American Medical Women's Association and was a recipient of the Howard C. Silver Scholarship for accomplishments in community service and the Humanism in Medicine Award. Her professional interests include homeless health care, domestic violence, cultural sensitivity, refugee health, and social justice in medicine.

FMIG Program Manager

Regina Jungbluth (regina.jungbluth@bmc.org)
 

Become the next wave of FMIG Student Leaders!

New FMIG Leadersofficers, second year students, are recruited in February and membersits current members hold elections every April. Your responsibility as an FMIG Co-Leader is to promote awareness and interest in family medicine through; development of the FMIG event calendar for the year, recruit for and promote FMIG events through; email correspondence, flyers, and in-person, contribute to the FMIG quarterly newsletter, procure funding, establish and balance budgets, facilitate all events, organize meetings, and attend state and national conferences.

Virtual FMIG
Visit the American Academy of Family Physicians' Virtual Family Medicine Interest Group.

Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians
Executive Director: Joseph Stone,
PO Box 1406
Manchester, MA 01944
E-mail: MASSAFP@SHORE.NET
Phone: (978)526-9753
Fax: (978)526-4417

BUMC Medline/Ovid http://med-libinfo.bu.edu/ovidweb/

American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org/

Society of Teachers of Family Medicine http://www.stfm.org/index_ns.html