Family Medicine Through Visual Arts

Purpose
We believe that the visual arts offer a powerful medium for sharing family medicine’s vision, interests and value. We invite submissions of visual art that reflect our identity as family physicians and our mission to serve as the backbone of healthcare to the world. 

Eligibility
Faculty and clinicians, residents-in-training, and medical students in the northeast region of the US are eligible to participate.

Submission Process

  • Submissions are welcome from family physicians, residents, medical students, or representatives of organizations who are FMEC members in the northeast region of the US ((Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and the District of  Columbia (D.C.)).
  • Photographs, paintings, sculptures, drawings, posters, web sites, digital movies or any other visual media that can be used to celebrate the richness and diversity in family medicine are welcomed.
  • Submissions will be reviewed by a review committee that is made up of FMEC members and previous award winners.
  • While submissions remain the property of the author, a submitter grants the FMEC unrestricted use of the material.
The award winner will be recognized at the FMEC annual meeting.
Questions? Contact [email protected]

Past Award Winners (2017 and older)

2023 Winners
Aimee Burke Valeras, PhD, LICSW - first place, "Hoping Against Hope" - photograph
Sruthi Srinivasan, MSIV - honorable mention, "Human Touch" - painting

2022 Winner
Lisa Gussak, MD - "Shattered:  Our Healthcare System in Covid" - photograph

2021 Winners
Henry Del Rosario, MD - "Workers of Worcester" - Best Website
Rebecca Collins, DO, MPH, FAAFP, CPE - "Waiting for Mom to See the Doctor" - Best Photo
Andrew Kwok, MSII, "A Beautiful Mind" - Best Painting (poem and painting)

2020 Winners
Brian Kaszuba, MSIV - Film:  "Healthcare America:  Uniting Our Voices"
Archana Jayakumar, DO - Illustration - "Portrait of the Physician During a Pandemic"
Munirah Bomani, MD - Dance/Song - "RIVER:  a salve  in a time of social injustice"

2019 Winner
Cassandra Rodrigues, DO - photograph entitled "Lydia"

2018 Winner
Hajat Avdovic, MD - photograph entitled "Life on the Batey, Dominican Republic, 2018"

2017 Winner
Luis Garcia, MD - photograph entitled "Anciana" (Elderly Woman)