Family Medicine Interest Group
The Family Medicine Interest Group (FMIG) at USU is dedicated to providing students with the opportunity to experience the full spectrum of Family Medicine. The FMIG is integrally involved in activities serving the university, uniformed service members, their dependents and the local community. Our Mission Statement is "To promote the education, career development and community service opportunities for uniformed medical students interested in family medicine".
One of the largest student-run activities at USU, the FMIG was honored by the American Academy of Family Physicians as a 2001 Program of Excellence.
Interested in getting involved?? Here's how
- 1. TarWars/KickButts. The FMIG coordinates an annual anti-tobacco campaign in local elementary schools. Teams of medical students visit local classrooms to provide a message discouraging youth from using tobacco products.
For more information please contact:
Alexis Beauvais at s11abeauvais@usuhs.mil
ENS Grace Landers at s11glanders@usuhs.mil
ENS John Mattingly at s10jmattingly@usuhs.mil
2Lt Daniel Allen at s10dallen@usuhs.mil
- 2.Get Up, Get Out, Get Fit. The FMIG coordinates an annual fitness and health campaign in local elementary schools. Teams of medical students visit local classrooms to provide a message encouraging youths to make healthy choices regarding fitness and dietary choices.
For more information please contact:
2Lt Danielle Dufresne at s11ddufresne@usuhs.mil
ENS Matthew Daab at s11mdaab@usuhs.mil
- 3.Community Service. The FMIG works with local community organizations to provide support for health promotion events. Activities include blood pressure screening, body composition and analysis screening and preventive counseling. FMIG students also help with the Marine Corps Marathon (www.marinemarathon.com) and Avon Walk for Breast Cancer and the GOSPEL Healthy Heart Symposium.
For more information please contact:
2Lt Elizabeth Landman at s11elandman@usuhs.mil
2LT Andrew Cleveland at s11acleveland@usuhs.mil
2Lt Dwight Xuan at s11dxuan@usuhs.mil
- 4. Shadow-A-Patient. This is an opportunity for students to follow a patient with diabetes as they navigate their way through the military healthcare system.
For more information please contact:
2Lt Alexis Beauvais at s11abeauvais@usuhs.mil
- 5. Sports Medicine Interest Group. The Family Medicine Interest group supports lectures, workshops and activities specifically related to sports medicine. Highlights for the group have included Joint Injection Workshops, Casting Workshops and shadowing Sports Medicine Physicians on the sidelines of live sporting events.
For more information please contact:
2Lt Justin Lamb at s11jlamb@usuhs.mil
- 6. Alternative Medicine Interest Group. The Family Medicine Interest group supports lectures, workshops and activities specifically related to alternative medicine. There is a Clinical Hypnosis Interest Group and Vegetarian Interest Group that each organize workshops and speakers.
For more information please contact:
2Lt Elizabeth Landman at s11elandman@usuhs.mil
2LT Olli Toukolehto at s11otoukolehto@usuhs.mil
- 7. Speakers Bureau and Workshops. Each month, the FMIG sponsors a luncheon with an expert in military medicine. Speakers range from "in the trenches" physicians to commanding generals. Workshops include such items as venipuncture and relaxation therapy. Bring your lunch and come with questions.
For more information please contact:
ENS Grace Landers at s11glanders@usuhs.mil
2Lt Alexis Beauvais at s11abeauvais@usuhs.mil
- 8. Thanksgiving Baskets. Join us in this opportunity to give back to those in need in the local military community. This annual event collects canned foodstuffs for military families around the Thanksgiving holiday.
For more information please contact:
ENS Grace Landers at s11glanders@usuhs.mil
- 9. Follow and Deliver. This is a unique opportunity to follow a pregnant patient from prenatal visits through labor and delivery. A cooperative venture with the OBIG
For more information please contact:
2Lt Alexis Beauvais at s11abeauvais@usuhs.mil
- Continuity Experience for Pre-Clinical Medical Students. Follow a patient through NNMC and find out truly 'what it's like to be a patient.
2Lt Alexis Beauvais at s11abeauvais@usuhs.mil - Useful Websites:
Virtual Family Medicine Interest Group
A useful link to network with other medical school interest groups.
American Family Physician
Link to the most widely read primary care journal in the U.S.
Uniformed Services Academy of Family Physicians
Links to information on all uniformed family medicine residencies, operational medicine, deployment information and PDA resources.
Faculty Advisor: CDR Mark B. Stephens mstephens@usuhs.mil
