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Do Wellness Interventions During Residency Impact Burnout of Family Physicians 3 Years into Practice? [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design and Analysis: A prospective cohort of family medicine residency graduates was surveyed about burnout and combined with their residency program director responses about residency workload or "culture of wellness" (residency organizational- and individual-level curricula). Context: Physician burnout continues to rise.

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Why did efforts to expand Canadian family medicine residency training to three years fail? An education policy analysis [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Family physicians in Canada have one of the broadest scopes of practice and shortest postgraduate residency training periods among high income nations. In 2018, the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) reviewed Canadian family medicine training and determined it must evolve to meet contemporary societal needs.

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Treatment of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea in Primary Care and Its Patient-Level Variation: An American Family Cohort Study [Original Research]

Annals of Family Medicine

METHODS We used electronic health records from the PRIME registry to identify patients with diagnosis codes or positive test results for chlamydia and/or gonorrhea from 2018 to 2022. We examined how well chlamydia and gonorrhea treatment in primary care settings adhered to guidelines.

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A portrait of primary care use in community dwelling persons with dementia in Quebec between 2018 and 2020 [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context As the population ages, access and continuity of primary care with the family physician are crucial for managing the complex health needs of persons with dementia. Objective To provide a comprehensive overview of primary care use among community-dwelling persons with dementia in Quebec from 2018 to 2020.

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Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

GeriPal

Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube. We discuss an article they wrote about PULET for the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, including: What makes a PULET a PULET?

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

Family medicine is neither the most prestigious nor the highest paid medical profession. Should GPs actually be treated as the stars of medicine? million people in 2018), shows that the longer you know your GP, the better off you are. Family medicine today is therefore more important than ever.

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Book Review: Booster Shots by Dr. Adam Ratner

Common Sense Family Doctor

In two decades of practicing family medicine, I've never seen a patient with measles. But if there was ever a more fertile environment for this age-old contagion to come roaring back in the U.S., this is it. This real-life scenario is probably Dr. Adam Ratner's worst nightmare, but it couldn't have come at a better time for his book.