Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Comprehensive primary care is the foundation of an effective healthcare system but has been on the decline as more family physicians pursue careers in focused practice. The trend of very part time primary care physicians (i.e., in 2009/2010 and ending at 20.4% and focused practice physicians increased by 317.9%.

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Primary Care Physician Family Families 130

Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 19, 2025

But that wasn’t the case for the estimated 1 in 15 US patients whose screening colonoscopies were performed by family physicians in 2021. The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) maintains that clinical privileges should be based on documented training and experience rather than the physician’s specialty.

Family Physician 52

Family Physician Family Families Board-Certified 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dataset We used an aggregate dataset derived from CHC EHRs containing 13,688,536 encounters between 2009 and 2019 from 220,580 clients. We also observed that family physicians and nurses tend to use more clinically-oriented codes, while mental health care providers and therapists use more codes related to social determinants of health.

Electronics 130

Electronics Provider Family Physician Mental Health 130

Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 28, 2025

In a 2024 American Family Physician editorial , Dr. Doug Campos-Outcalt reviewed best practices for diagnosis and prevention of measles. For comparison, there were 285 cases of measles in the United States in 2024, and there have already been more reported cases than in all but two years since 2000.

Vaccination 52

Vaccination Family Physician Illness Family 52