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88 February 2007 Family Medicine Innovations in Family Medicine Education Joshua Freeman, MD, Feature Editor Alison Dobbie, MD, Feature Editor Editor’s Note: Send submissions to jfreeman3@. Articles should be between 500–1,000 words and clearly and concisely present the goal of the program, the design of the intervention and evaluation plan, the description of the program as implemented, results of evaluation, and conclusion. Each submission should be accompanied by a 100-word abstract. Please limit tables or figures to one each. You can also contact me at Department of Family Medicine, KUMC, Room 1130A Delp, Mail Code 4010, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, KS 66160. 913-588-1944. Fax: 913-588-2496. Smiles for Life: A National Oral Health Curriculum for Family Medicine. A Model for Curriculum Development by STFM Groups Alan B. Douglass, MD; Wanda Gonsalves, MD; Russell Maier, MD; Hugh Silk, MD; Nancy Stevens, MD; James Tysinger, PhD; A. Stevens Wrightson, MD The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Group on Oral Health released Smiles for Life: A National Oral Health Curriculum for Family Medicine in October 2005 to address a need for high-quality resi- dency and medical school curricula in an area of documented physician knowledge deficit. This article describes the background, planning, fund-raising, development, dissemination, and impact of the cur- riculum. Lessons learned, particularly in the areas of long-distance collaboration, fund-raising, and marketing are reviewed with a goal of serving as a model for future curriculum development efforts. (Fam Med 2007;39(2):88-90.) A major activity of Society of 12