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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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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. Sex-specific models controlled for age, income, parental education, and MVPA. SS was measured using the Sallis Parental Scale.

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Influential women in the history of medicine

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

Blackwell played an important role in both the United States and the United Kingdom as a social awareness and moral reformer, and promoted education for women in medicine through her inspirational book Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women.

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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.