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Changes in Family Medicine Department Research Funding Between 2016 and 2021 [Research capacity building]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context In 2016 and 2021, ADFM sent out a survey to departments of Family Medicine to understand research activities. Objective Identify changes in research capacity of family medicine departments between the years of 2016 and 2021. Study Design Secondary data analysis.

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Improving Scholarship in a Community Hospital Residency Program with a Curriculum featuring a Structured Roadmap, Indi [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

This study aims to evaluate the impact of implementing a structured roadmap to enhance resident scholarly activity within a specific family medicine residency program. Scholarly output of residents graduating between 2016-2018 (pre-intervention) was compared to those graduating from 2019 -2021 (post-intervention).

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Practice patterns of Ontario physicians working in 'boutique' medical clinics [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: Identify practice patterns of family physicians practicing within boutique clinics in Ontario. All fee-for-service physicians who billed at least 1 OHIP claim from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016 and from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023 under their clinic group codes were included. Study Design and Analysis.

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Mean Age of Moms at First Birth Increased From 2016 to 2023

Physician's Weekly

MONDAY, June 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — From 2016 to 2023, there was an increase in the mean age of mothers at first birth and at higher-order births, according to the June 13 National Vital Statistics Reports , a publication from the National Center for Health Statistics. Brown, Ph.D., Brown, Ph.D., All rights reserved.

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Predictors of exposure to high-priority drug-drug interactions among non-elderly adults in Quebec, Canada [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Drug reimbursement claims were used to identify periods of overlapping exposure to 2 or more prescription drugs between April 1, 2015 and March 31, 2016. of all prescriptions claimed were issued by a family physician. Study design and Analysis: Retrospective cohort study using provincial administrative health databases.

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

Common Sense Family Doctor

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.

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Association between family medicine residents practice intentions and their initial professional activities [Secondary data analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Amidst the ongoing crisis in family medicine (FM) in Canada, there is an increased need to gauge the future practice patterns of family physicians (FPs). The FM Longitudinal Survey data can serve as a valuable source for forecasting the future scope of family practice and help enhance health workforce planning.

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