Shape Your Path (Session 5) – Strength in Numbers: Physician Organizing for Advocacy and Impact
Learn how collective action can shape the future of health care—and how you can be part of it—in this fifth session of the Shape Your Path: Empowering New Physicians series.
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
7:00 - 8:00 pm
Learn how collective action can shape the future of health care—and how you can be part of it.
Physicians have a unique voice—and when we come together, that voice becomes a powerful force for change. This session explores the impact of physician organizing, from advocating for better patient care and safer workplaces to influencing health policy. Whether you’re new to organizing or already involved, you’ll gain practical tools and strategies for building networks, engaging colleagues and driving meaningful progress in your workplace and beyond. (Session 5 of the Shape Your Path: Empowering New Physicians series.)
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Presenters
Katherine Oyster, MD, is a family medicine with obstetrics physician with Allina Health in Cottage Grove, MN. She completed her medical training at Medical College of Wisconsin for medical school and Michigan State University-affiliated Grand Rapids Medical Education Partners for residency. While always interested in political activism, she personally became interested in physician organizing to address what she views as the increasing encroachment of corporate medicine on the ability to give patients individualized, personally tailored medical care. She sees physician organizing as one of the last measures to advocate for patients and to protect working conditions to make primary care a sustainable career path.
Cora Walsh, MD, MSc, is a family physician currently practicing at the Allina Health West St. Paul Clinic. Her professional passions include reproductive health care, mental health care, pediatrics, and more recently union organizing.
Objectives
- Understand the power of physician organizing by exploring the benefits of collective action in health care, including advocacy, workplace improvements and policy influence.
- Develop effective organizing strategies by learning key principles and practical approaches for building physician networks, engaging colleagues and driving meaningful change.
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, Strength in Numbers: Physician Organizing for Advocacy and Impact, 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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Thank You, Partners!
We’re grateful for our health care partners and their support of this series and Minnesota’s family physicians.
