IAFP Offers...

• IAFP CME opportunities provide more than 50 CME hours a year -conveniently and cost-effectively.
• Family Medicine Updates
• Special symposia - offer CME on the latest medical breakthroughs of interest to family physicians. Enduring materials on many of Family Medicine's hottest topics.

Publications

• Valuable resources published for you by IAFP.
• Iowa Family Physician Magazine, is published 4 times a year and features news about upcoming meetings, legislation, and the specialty of family practice; practice management information and practice opportunity notices.
  

Representation

• Representation on critical issues in organized medicine.
• Professional services of IAFP's lobbyist and the Academy's network of contacts with other healthcare organizations ensure your professional future on critical issues.
• IAFP delegations to state and national medical organizations give Iowa family physicians a voice in organized medicine.
• Recruiting future family physicians through programs at the medical-school level.
  Professional staff always available to answer your question provides references and offer assistance.
• IAFP has joined coalitions and initiated legislation that enhances its ability to provide better care and greater access to our patient population. Socioeconomic issues including women's health, tobacco, violence and managed care receive careful deliberation and effective response from the Academy to those who influence and make policy.

Public Relations
Activities designed to promote the family practice specialty including:

• Annual Awards- IAFP sponsors several awards recognizing outstanding family physicians and the services they provide to their communities.
• Tar Wars- National Tobacco Education program for 4th and 5th graders to prevent tobacco use