The Chief Resident Conference is offered in Dallas, Texas on an annual basis and is designed to provide incoming Family Medicine Chief Residents with an appreciation of the scope of their new positions.  Skills training intended to enhance job performance include exercises, didactics and panels regarding team-building, administrative duties, leadership qualities, and coping strategies.  The chief residents are encouraged to form, and later take advantage of, an informal network of their Family Medicine chief resident colleagues.  Further, the participants are urged to involve themselves with the issues that challenge organized Family Medicine.  

This conference, which was started in 1988, served as a model for the national Family Practice Chief Resident training program initiated by the American Academy of Family Physicians in 1997.