Shape Your Path (Session 4) – Exploring Career Paths to Take Charge of Your Future
Explore diverse career paths and get advice about making choices that match your goals and interests in this fourth session of the Shape Your Path: Empowering New Physicians series.
Thursday, October 30, 2025
7:00 - 8:00 pm
Explore diverse career paths and get advice about making choices that match your goals and interests.
Explore career paths in medicine, from clinical practice to non-traditional roles, and gain practical strategies for making career decisions and advancing your professional journey. (Session 4 of the Shape Your Path: Empowering New Physicians series.)
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Panelists
Jay-Sheree Allen Akambase, MD, MPH, FAAFP
Family + preventive medicine physician, Mayo Clinic; President, AAFP Foundation Board of Trustees
Allen Akambase is a family medicine and preventive medicine physician at Mayo Clinic, dedicated to advancing disease prevention, health promotion and long-term well-being for patients. She also serves as president of the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation Board of Trustees, leading strategic efforts to advance humanitarian, educational and scientific initiatives that improve community and population health.
Najaha Musse, DO
Family physician; Founder, Frontier Primary Care PLLC
Musse is a family physician and founder of Frontier Primary Care PLLC, a direct primary care practice dedicated to providing personalized and accessible health care. She is passionate about empowering patients to take an active role in their health journey through a patient-centered approach.
Britta Reierson, MD, FAAFP
Family + obesity medicine physician; physician leader, Knownwell
Reierson is a family physician and obesity medicine specialist bringing holistic, comprehensive weight inclusive healthcare to all individuals as a practicing physician leader at Knownwell. She is a medical graduate of the University of MN Medical School and St. John’s Family Medicine Residency. Reierson is passionate about patient centered care, advocacy and education in the field of obesity medicine. As a leader in primary care, obesity medicine, population health and health care innovation and strategy, her goal is to remove inequity, stigma, bias and barriers of care across the health care ecosystem. Reierson is the chair of Medical Education for the Minnesota Obesity Society.
Facilitator:
Eduardo Medina, MD, MPH
Family physician, HealthPartners Park Nicollet; board member, The Ladder
Medina is the Josie Robinson Johnson Endowed Vice Chair for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the UMN Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Medina completed his MPH at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and his MD and family medicine residency at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He holds an undergraduate degree in Latin American Studies with a concentration in sociology from Wesleyan University. He is a proud alumnus of Deerfield Academy, Prep for Prep 9 and the New York City public school system.
Objectives
- Explore career paths in medicine, from clinical practice to non-traditional roles.
- Gain practical strategies for making career decisions and advancing your professional journey.
Continuing Medical Education
Application for CME credit will be filed with the American Academy of Family Physicians. 1.00 AAFP Live Prescribed Credit will be requested.
Activity #108462: The AAFP has reviewed Shape Your Path: Empowering New Physicians Series and deemed it acceptable for AAFP credit. Term of Approval is from 06/10/2025 to 04/3/2026. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This session, Exploring Career Paths to Take Charge of Your Future, is approved for 1.00 AAFP Live Prescribed credit.
Partnership Opportunities
Help family medicine residents and early career family physicians gain essential tools and insights to confidently navigate the early years of their family medicine career by supporting this informative series. Limited to three partners.
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