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Comprehensive and Focus Practice changes in the Family Physician Workforce in Ontario:1993-2022 [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

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 average number of patient visits for family physicians in focused practice steadily increased from 1,440 in 1993/1994 to 2,636 in 2021/2022.

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Medicaid expansion is in the eye of the beholder

The Health Policy Exchange

In fiscal year 2011, Medicaid spending totaled $414 billion, with two-thirds going to services for disabled elderly persons. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation , more than half of today's 48 million uninsured have incomes below the new Medicaid threshold. Kenny Lin, MD Director, Robert L. Phillips, Jr.

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Exploring the gender composition of CERA survey authors [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: CERA (Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance) is a collaboration of the academic family medicine organizations (STFM, AFMRD, NAPCRG, and the ADFM) with the goal of facilitating and improving educational research in family medicine.

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GeneSight® Mental Health Monitor Results

Myriad Genetics

Roberts was struggling with her mental health after a string of painful life events, including her mother’s passing and other family members’ chronic health issues. “My I am able to help my family members, taking them to appointments, go to my job—in fact, I was just promoted–without wanting to just run away!” exclaimed Ms.

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Palliative Care in A Conflict Zone: Help Us Support Our Hospice and Palliative Care Colleagues in Ukraine

GeriPal

Families are unable to visit their loved ones and patients suffer from limited access to care and medications. The All-Ukrainian Associate of Palliative and Hospice Care was founded in 2011 and is currently working to provide support and direct supplies to hospices and palliative care wards in the country.

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Legislative passage of Medicare

The Health Policy Exchange

The legislative passage of Medicare was the subject of the first of a series of monthly one-hour health policy seminars for Family Medicine fellows and residents at Georgetown University School of Medicine. This short video produced by the Kaiser Family Foundation summarizes changes that occurred in the program in the intervening years.

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Influential women in the history of medicine

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

She was raised in a forward-thinking, socially active family. Rosalyn Yalow (1921-2011) America medical physicist Rosalyn Yalow received the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine in 1977 for the development of the radioimmunoassays (RIA) technique, which is used to measure peptide hormones in the blood.

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