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Family Medicine: Finding Its Way on the Federal Research Roadmap [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Challenges persist in securing substantial funding for the Family Medicine (FM) research enterprise, particularly from major sources like the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This project emerged from the 2023 Family Medicine Research Summit, and serves as a periodic update to similar analyses conducted in 2008 and 2015.

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Family physicians perform high-quality colonoscopies, but access is an issue

Common Sense Family Doctor

In 2000, American Family Physician published an AAFP position paper (an updated version currently resides on the AAFP website) emphasizing that “colonoscopy can be a natural extension of the total care provided by a well-trained family physician.”

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Parental Support and the Built Environment: A 4-Way Decomposition Analysis of Childrens Physical Activity [Obesity, exercise and nutrition]

Annals of Family Medicine

Methods Data were from the QUALITY cohort, an ongoing investigation of the natural history of obesity in 630 Quebec families. A prospective analysis was undertaken using data collected in 2008-2010.

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Influential women in the history of medicine

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

In 2008, Barré, along with Luc Montaigner, discovered that the HIV retrovirus attacked lymphocytes, a blood cell that plays an important role in the body’s immune system. Throughout history, women have made significant contributions to medicine and we have benefitted from many incredible breakthroughs.

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Episode 236: ARM Episode 16 – Live from SGIM: Best of Antiracism Research at the Society of General Internal Medicine’s 2022 Annual Meeting

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Dr. Okah is a family medicine clinician and NRSA research fellow at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and she studies the association between the use of race in medical decision-making and beliefs regarding the etiology of disparities in health outcomes. 2008 Oct;100(10):1235-43. N Engl J Med.

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Pathways to primary care for underserved communities

Common Sense Family Doctor

Several past colleagues in the family medicine department at Georgetown recently published an informative scoping review of specialty disrespect in the medical learning environment. and 3.6%, respectively, in 2008-09 to 14.3% in 2023-24.