Student recognized for family medicine recruitment efforts

Christina Sheu, student membership coordinator for the Family Medicine Interest Group at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, was recognized by AAFP for outstanding student recruitment efforts for the 2007-2008 academic year.

The main responsibility of the AAFP student membership coordinator is to inform other medical students on his or her campus about the specialty of family medicine and the benefits and services of being a student member in the AAFP, according to AAFP. They do this by coordinating student orientations, handing out issues of the American Family Physician Journal, and providing AAFP student membership applications and materials to their peers.

Under Sheu’s leadership, the UT Houston FMIG doubled their total student membership and submitted more than 10 AAFP membership applications. Two other coordinators in the country were recognized during the FMIG Breakfast during National Conference in May.