The Family Medicine Champions program is a free, self-paced training that prepares physicians, students, and faculty to advocate for the specialty and connect with future health professionals. Through expert-led modules, you’ll learn to dispel myths, clarify misconceptions, and highlight the depth and breadth of family medicine careers.
Family Medicine Champions are guides along the pathway and process of medical education, providing information, tools and support to recruit a diverse workforce and promote a positive vision for the future of family medicine. Champions dispel myths, clarify misconceptions and advocate for the specialty’s wide-ranging opportunities.
As a foundation of the AAFP’s priority to strengthen pathways to family medicine, the program will prepare individuals to connect with students — and those who support them — to shed light on what it really means to be a family physician.
Whether you're advising premeds, mentoring students, or presenting to future clinicians, this program gives you the tools to lead.
Registration is open now through Jan. 9, 2026 for the next class that starts on Jan. 16, 2026.