Minneapolis, May 22, 2024 – The Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) has named Nicholas DeVetter, DO, as the 2024 Family Medicine Resident of the Year. This award is presented annually to a family medicine resident for outstanding contributions to the specialty through community involvement, leadership and educational activities.
DeVetter is a second-year resident physician at the Mayo Clinic Family Medicine Residency – Mankato. He is passionate about community health and family medicine and actively engaged in leadership and scholarship activities as well as outreach initiatives.
At the Mankato residency, DeVetter has been instrumental in developing the program’s community health and health equity curriculum, helps lead a social justice book club and leads a community health advisory committee which works to foster connections with community leaders and to help address health disparities in the Mankato community. He also is a co-founder of Connections Shelter Clinic in Mankato—a free clinic for patients experiencing homelessness—which is run by a collaboration of the Connections Shelter, Mayo Clinic Health System and Open Door Health Center.
In 2022, DeVetter was selected by the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation as a Family Medicine Leads Emerging Leader Institute scholar. He is also a Robert Graham Center scholar, working on the use of electronic social referral databases in the clinical setting, and has presented his research at the North American Primary Care Research Group annual meeting. DeVetter has also been a lead author on three peer-reviewed publications, helped update the Mankato residency’s curriculum around scholarship and research and developed tools and processes to encourage resident engagement in scholarship and research.
Nominators described DeVetter as dedicated, innovative and passionate. Co-resident Marijo Botten, DO, said, “Nick is involved in so many aspects of family medicine… [his] dedication to supporting and improving health care for patients is large scale, and he is always bringing others up and encouraging us to get involved in the things we’re passionate about too.”
The MAFP congratulates Nicholas DeVetter, DO, on this well-deserved recognition and looks forward to his continued contributions to family medicine and community health.
About the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians: The Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) is the largest medical specialty organization in Minnesota, representing more than 3,100 family physicians, family medicine residents and medical students. The MAFP promotes the specialty of family medicine in Minnesota and supports family physicians as they provide high quality, comprehensive and continuous medical care for patients of all ages.
About the MAFP Academy Awards: The MAFP recognizes its members for their hard work and dedication to family medicine via its own Academy Awards. Minnesota family physicians, resident physicians, medical students and researchers are nominated—by educators, learners and colleagues—for a variety of awards. For the Family Medicine Resident of the Year Award, the MAFP Board of Directors selects recipients after reviewing nomination letters and credentials. More background on the awards can be found at mafp.org/awards.
Media contact: Kendra Myers, 952-224-3876, kendra@mafp.org