How YOU Can Raise Your Voice for Family Medicine in 2025

UAFP is preparing for what may be one of the most impactful legislative sessions yet. Now more than ever, we need Utah family physicians to learn how to speak out on behalf of their profession, their patients, and public health. UAFP has a number of ways you can be engaged:  Engaging with legislators is a…

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Resident and Med School Student Scholarships Available for Family Medicine Advocacy Summit

Take an active role in shaping family medicine’s future when you come together with peers at the AAFP Family Medicine Advocacy Summit (FMAS), taking place Sunday-Tuesday, June 22-24, 2025. Whether you’re a first-time attendee or an advanced advocate, you’ll learn tactics for being a specialty champion. Plus, you’ll flex your skills when you lobby directly with members of Congress to…

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2024 Utah Fam Med PAC Endorsed Candidates

Dear UAFP Members, The UAFP Political Action Committee (Utah Fam Med PAC) has endorsed the following candidates for the 2024 general election. These are candidates who, as elected officials, have shown strong support for the important issues that directly affect family physicians and/or their patients. If these candidates are in your voting district(s), we encourage…

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2024-25 Match Resources

Download the AAFP’s FREE Guidebook for this Year’s Match!With practical tips and expert advice to lean on every step of the way, Strolling Through the Match has been helping medical students for decades in the dash to match. As a comprehensive guide to the Match, this booklet provides reliable insight on professional development for all osteopathic and…

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Utah Academy of Family Physicians Celebrates National Family Medicine Week

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, Sept. 30, 2024 Maryann Martindale CEO, Utah Academy of Family Physicians  martindalemm@utahafp.org Utah Academy of Family Physicians Celebrates National Family Medicine WeekSalt Lake City, UT — The Utah Academy of Family Physicians celebrates National Family Medicine Week and thanks the family physicians, residents, and medical students in Utah for their commitment…

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Join the Utah Health Alert Network (HAN) Today

Stay up to date on urgent health issues in Utah and across the nation through the Utah Health Alert Network, or HAN. The HAN is a notification system designed to quickly distribute urgent information during a disease outbreak, environmental threat, natural disaster, or act of terrorism, from public health to thousands of healthcare professionals and other key partners across Utah. This messaging system will only be…

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DHHS Seeking Physician Committee Members

The Utah Dept of Health and Human Services is recruiting members with expertise in the practice of family medicine, ideally including obstetrics, for our Maternal Mortality Review Committee and our Infant Mortality Review Committee. These interprofessional committees review all pregnancy-associated maternal deaths (death during or within 1 year of the end of pregnancy) and perinatal…

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Utah Family Medicine Match Results

Results from the 2024 National Resident Matching Program® Main Residency Match (NRMP) indicate that this will be the largest class of incoming family medicine residents in history, with 4,595 medical students and graduates matching into family medicine residency programs. This year, family medicine offered 5,231 residency positions,124 more than in 2023! Read more about this year’s match…

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