Overview

Suggested topics

Suggested educational sessions, discussions, demonstrations, or panels relating to the following topics:

Curious what has worked before? See where past workshops have focused, just below.

• Advocacy, community engagement, and social justice
• Alternative pathways in medicine and health
• Arts, history, and the health humanitiessuch as narrative medicine, history of medicine, visual arts, music, dance, and performance
• Culturally informed approaches to patient care and public health
• Effects of migration on health
• LGBTQ+ health
• Mental health
• Professional growth for residents, fellows, and attending physicians
• Reinforcing the educational pipeline
• Reproductive health
• Specialty-specific topics
• Support for International Medical Graduates (IMGs) and medical students applying for residency
• Hands-on clinical and simulation skills, such as:

  • Suturing
  • Intubation
  • Cervical screening for HPV and cervical cancer
  • Splinting and casting
  • Ultrasound
  • IUD placement
  • Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment demonstration
  • Standardized patient encounters
  • Mock codes and rapid response

Conference audience

Workshops should be designed for an audience encompassing students, trainees, healthcare practitioners, medical educators, researchers, public health advocates, and cultural and community leaders.

Select all that apply On the form, choose as many audiences as your workshop is designed for. Many workshops serve more than one stage. The options follow the path from pre-health to practice:

1. Pre-health
   • Undergraduate and pre-health students
   • Post-baccalaureate, gap year, and reapplicant students
2. Medical training
   • Medical students (MD/DO)
   • Residents and fellows
3. In practice
   • Practicing physicians
   • Other health professions students and professionals (nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, PA, public health, and more)
4. Mentors and community
   • Advisors, educators, and mentors
   • Family and community members

You can also add another audience under Other.

Workshop Formats

The total time allotted for workshop blocks is expected to be up to 60 or 80 minutes for the 2027 CYFAM Conference.

In person or virtual

CYFAM values in-person and virtual engagement equally. Virtual presenters are full contributors to the program, and their sessions receive the same promotion, visibility, and recognition as in-person sessions. The Pre-Conference Workshop Series expands access for those who cannot travel to San Diego.

Level of prior knowledge

Optional on the form. Choose the level that best fits the attendees you have in mind.

1. Level 1

   Introductory

   No background needed

2. Level 2

   Intermediate

   Some familiarity helpful

3. Level 3

   Advanced

   Designed for those with experience in this area

CME eligibility

If you are planning a workshop directed toward a certain stage of training (e.g., for Continuing Medical Education credit, for first year medical students, etc.), please indicate this information in your responses. We cannot guarantee your workshop will be CME-eligible.

Your Proposal

Have these ready before you open the form.

Workshop information

• TitleA proposed workshop title for the program and itinerary, 100 characters maximum
• Learning objectivesAt least three (3) objectives attendees will take away from the workshop
• Purpose of workshopHow it aligns with the conference theme, and what new perspectives or pathways it opens for attendees, 2,000 characters maximum
• Vision and engagementAn ideal workshop itinerary, any relevant logistics, the methods and materials you will use, or strategies to engage attendees
• Format, audience, and levelIn person, virtual, or either; the audience(s) your workshop is designed for; and, optionally, the level of prior knowledge expected
• CME preferenceWhether you would like your workshop to be considered for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit. If yes, please plan to respond to organizers in a timely manner. Financial relationships with ineligible companies may make a workshop ineligible.
• Clinical workshops: supervision and safety planArrange appropriate supervising individuals, and prepare a safety plan for the Conference's Safety & Security Subcommittee.
• Optional supplementary materialsPDF, slides, images, or video. Up to 5 files, 10 MB each.

Speakers and point of contact

• Primary SpeakerThe Primary Speaker will be listed in the program. Have their name, pronouns, degrees or title, affiliated institution or organization, city and state, email, and phone number ready.
• Point of ContactThe Point of Contact will be the person we reach out to for all correspondence regarding your submission. This may be the Primary Speaker or someone submitting on their behalf.
• Co-speakers (optional)You may list up to one (1) co-speaker. Panel workshops can accommodate up to three (3) co-speakers. Please ensure each co-speaker has reviewed and agreed to be listed in this submission.

Good to know

Required disclosures for all presenters

Open your session with a cover slide, then the two required disclosure slides, plus a CME slide if your workshop is accepted for CME. Your agenda can come right after the cover or right after the disclosures. Accepted presenters will receive templates.

1. CYFAM 2027Your Workshop TitlePresenter names · Affiliations

   Cover slideWorkshop title, presenters, and affiliations.

3. FlexibleAgenda

   AgendaHere, or right after the two disclosure slides.

5. DisclosuresNo relevant financial relationships to disclose

   Financial relationships RequiredList any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies, or state that you have none.

7. DisclosureUse of AIIdeationDraftingImages

   Use of AI RequiredName each way AI was used (see categories below), or state that it was not.

9. If acceptedCMEContinuing Medical Education

   CME slide If accepted for CMEProvided by the Conference Committee through your Committee Contact.

11. Your workshop begins

    Then, your contentEverything else is yours to design.

Ineligible company: any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. If you have any financial relationships with ineligible companies, your workshop may be ineligible for CME, regardless of what you indicate on the submission form.

Examples

Use these as a guide, not a template. Strong proposals are specific about what attendees will take away, and how the session will get them there.

Writing learning objectives

Please provide at least three (3) objectives. A helpful pattern: begin with "Attendees will be able to," followed by an action attendees can show by the end of your session.

• Identify
• Describe
• Compare
• Explain
• Demonstrate
• Apply
• Practice
• Reflect
• Develop
• Construct

Examples from the call

Accepted workshops from 2026

Two proposals accepted for the 6th Annual CYFAM National Conference in Houston, laid out the way the form asks for them.

Session lengths reflect the 2026 conference. For 2027, non-clinical workshops run up to 60 minutes and clinical workshops up to 80 minutes (see Formats).

Review Criteria

Submissions will be evaluated based on the following criteria, which reflect CYFAM's values of excellence, inclusion, and community partnership:

1. 1

   Relevance and Impact

   The proposed workshop effectively engages CYFAM's conference audience and supports the broader goal of promoting Filipinx American representation in medicine and health.

2. 2

   Alignment with Conference Theme

   The content and aims match the 2027 conference theme and key objectives.

3. 3

   Clarity and Originality

   The workshop's goals, structure, and activities are well-defined and showcase creativity, innovation, or a new approach to the topic.

4. 4

   Integration of Intersectionality

   The workshop thoughtfully addresses the intersections of identity, culture, and lived experience within the Filipinx American community and wider health and medicine contexts.