PREMIER seeks to highlight innovation within residency programs and provide a platform for sharing ideas, faculty expertise, and resident learning opportunities. It allows for broader inter-residency collaboration by focusing on research projects and outcomes important to our local communities and patient populations. 

PREMIER’s signature event is our regional research competition which has taken place for more than 20 years. Held annually in early June, it includes educational faculty development (for CME) and a research competition, which includes both posters and oral presentations, along with case reports and research projects. Formal judging by participating residency faculty from the programs allows for PREMIER to highlight the best scholarly activity within our region, along with distributing cash prizes.

As an expansion of the research competition, there is now faculty development available the morning of the research competition. This allows program directors, associate program directors, and core teaching faculty to qualify for CME and learn best practices in education and teaching.

• Arrowhead Regional Medical Center Family Medicine Department and Residency Program
• Desert Regional Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program
• Eisenhower Health Family Medicine Residency Program 
• HCA Healthcare – Riverside Family Medicine Residency Program
• Kaiser Permanente Southern California Family Medicine - Fontana
• Kaiser Permanente Southern California Family Medicine - Riverside 
• Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium Family Medicine Residency
• Pomona Valley Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program
• Riverside University Health System/UCR Family Medicine Residency Program
• University of California Riverside Family Medicine Residency Program
• Southwest Healthcare MEC Family Medicine Residency Program

Email premier@familydocs.org.

Membership is open to any family medicine residency program from the Inland Empire area of California. Dues are collected on an annual basis and are $1,000 per year, paid to the CAFP Foundation. Membership dues allow residency programs to participate in the research competition.

The competition is hosted and organized by the Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium Residency Program.

2024 Submission Guidelines:

1. Programs are invited to submit 2 posters and 2 oral presentations in the competition.
   1. All submission forms should be completed no later than MAY 30, 2024.
   2. Submissions must include all of the following information: 
      • AUTHOR PRESENTING
      • TYPE of PRESENTATION
        
        • Oral research
        • Oral case report
        • Poster
          • Title
          • Affiliation
      • STANDARD POSTER SIZE: 24” x 36”

1. Programs should assign one person to serve as a judge in the competition. 
   1. If you are an author on a submission, you may not be a judge in the competition.
   2. Judges should bring their phones to scan a QR code to receive all the online evaluations for the posters and the presentations. On June 9th, judges will complete poster evaluations between 12:00-1:30 PM while lunch is served.
   3. Judges must attend the duration of the competition in case there is a tie.

       

2. Case report posters will be judged alongside all other poster presentations as equal competitors.
   1. Oral case reports will have a special designation and a different evaluation metric than the oral research presentations.

       

3. Cash prize amounts and numbers of prizes will be determined by number of submissions in each category; and, by donation amounts by PREMIER consortium members and the Riverside/San Bernardino County Chapter of CAFP.

    

4. Resident presenters and judges’ schedules should be adjusted for attendance at the PREMIER competition.

2023 Contest Winners