FMIG in the US, in affiliation with AAFP, is created to enhance student’s interests in Family Medicine by providing resources, programming that may not be offered in the medical school curriculum. Through this group, students can cultivate their interests, shape leadership potentials, get involved in community services and mentoring activities, and focus on their future career as family physicians
. Cummings and Dr. Laura Goldman, family physicians and lecturers from Boston University, our dream is no longer a dream; it was definitely realised. Starting from little information, we keep moving forward to acquire and find sources to gain more understandings about family medicine. From not just to know but also deeply understand, we can feel how beneficial family medicine and family medicine interest group are for improving the quality of health care system in Cambodia. Through counselling and encouraging from them, we decide to work as a small group within colleagues whose one and only common is to let this new specialty exist in our country. The FMIG-UHSC aims to provide medical students with the tools required for effective intention of recruiting aspiring medical students to become family physicians.
