Strategic Plan

Goal 1: Develop and promote family physicians as health policy leaders and partners.

• Continue to be the voice of reason for organized medicine.
• Increase engagement in the advocacy process at all levels of membership (students, residents, practicing physicians)
  • Increase PAC contributions
  • Increase members giving testimony and serving as key contacts
• Advocate for Primary Care Investment legislation and educate members
• Educate policy leaders on the value of Family Medicine 

Goal 2: Advocacy in Legislation

• Focus on introducing legislation where appropriate
• Promote workforce incentives
• Address scope of practice and health equity
• Continue to partner with WMS and others on mutual legislation and advocacy

Goal 3: Advocate for full scope family physician friendly practice of medicine to support all family physicians and patients

• Provide support for members who practice within large health systems and those who want to or do practice in other models (small group practice, independent
• practice, DPC, etc.)
• Provide data, resources, and advocacy for members in issues relating to health systems (scope of practice, using our voice, etc.)
  • Provide information and resources to members about alternative practice models
    • AAFP has DPC toolkits that we can share with members.

Goal 1: Identify opportunities for public health and family medicine to collaborate with a focus on DEI and social determinants of health

• Charge a workgroup comprised of student & resident workgroup and Health 3P’s workgroup members to collaborate on public health efforts 

Goal 2: Recruit and Retain Family Physicians

• Create value for student membership.
• Identify and implement strategies to assist with preceptor recruitment, retention, and training.
• Provide educational opportunities for FMIG activities.
• Create opportunities for students and residents to become engaged in legislative efforts.
• Identify opportunities to reach out to pre-med students.  Develop pre-med pathway.
• Encourage and support residents with wellbeing and anti-burnout activities and education.
• Retain – convey how well primary care (family medicine) is supported in Wisconsin
• Promote and make Family Medicine more attractive to those already interested in medicine by:
  • Reducing the stigma
  • Telling positive stories
  • Describe what Family Medicine is really like in recruiting efforts
  • Expand grant program and loan repayment to adjust to the increasing costs of medical school and rising cost of living

Goal 3: Create strategies to assist AAFP in achieving the goal of 25% of students selecting FM by 2030.

• How do you convince medical schools that 25% is what’s needed?
• How can we influence and get more FM residencies in Wisconsin to support 25% of graduating med students to go into FM?
• Leverage connections to push the message of FM and what it’s really like to the public through social media
• Promote the full scope of Family Medicine and the impact that Family Physicians have on their communities.