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The LAFP is here to support you, through your residency, as a new physician and throughout your family medicine career. Through conferences, scholarships and other opportunities, LAFP helps residents of family medicine access the resources they need to make their future practices great. Benefits of Academy Membership
AAFP/LAFP resident membership represents an important step in your career. It signifies your decision to identify and associate with the most knowledgeable physicians in an organization dedicated to advancing and representing the specialty of family physicians worldwide. You get the benefits both across Louisiana and throughout the country.
Networking Academy membership offers not only an opportunity to build lifetime relationships but also to network with colleagues and others involved in family practice. Through Academy membership, residents discover a mechanism for idea exchanges among members worldwide, as well as opportunities to meet with family practice administrators and recruiters. Now more than ever, resident membership in the AAFP provides exceptional personal and career growth advantages.
Career Planning AAFP Placement Services is an interactive program accessible 24 hours a day that matches family physicians with clinical and faculty career opportunities. This service is free to all AAFP resident members! Starting a Medical Practice-- Published by the Academy, On Your Own: Starting a Medical Practice From the Ground Up is a resource manual that combines general information about starting a business with information tailored specifically to starting a practice. More: Info, Insights and Resources - Membership enables residents to access the AAFP's numerous web-based resources that offer you information on everything about family medicine. Leadership OpportunitiesLeadership Development in Primary Care - There's no better way put your professional career on the fast track than with active involvement in your specialty's professional association. Involvement introduces valuable networking and learning opportunities, along with the chance to help shape the specialty for future residents. LAFP provides opportunities for Louisiana resident leaders to coordinate state wide activities for medical students interested in family medicine. By serving as officer, you have the opportunity to advocate for the resident membership to the LAFP's General Assembly, AAFP's National Congress of Family Medicine Students and Residents, LAFP Board of Directors and LAFP Medical Student and Resident Affairs Committee. This group also helps organize a Family Medicine Conference for Medical Students and Residents each year. Act today! Educational Activities
AAFP National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students Family Medicine Conference for Medical Students and Residents Web & Print Publications: Louisiana Family Doctor Magazine The AAFP Web Site
With access to the member’s side of the AAFP Web site -- http://www.aafp.org-- you have access to information and on-line databases and library search services providing everything you need to keep pace with the latest issues affecting your career. It also provides online publications, patient education, Academy news and policies. For information related specifically to residents, go to www.aafp.org/residents.
Advocacy
The AAFP is a strong advocate for the family physician and their patients. The Academy monitors and represents your views to the CDC, National Institutes of Health, and, most importantly, to government lawmakers. The Academy’s “Speak Out Legislative Action Center” alerts you to current legislative issues affecting family medicine, as well as gives you a guide to Congress and allows you to write to Congress on issues important to family medicine. Through aggressive legislative efforts, the Academy fights for fair reimbursement and to reduce the hassle factors of practicing medicine. AAFP also directs strong efforts towards the social, economic and political factors that shape the environment in which you practice. Member Only Services
As a member of the Academy, many of our services are available exclusively to members only. They include:
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