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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. What hasn't changed is that our family medicine residents remain excited about health policy and advocacy. Phillips, Jr.

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Practice organization characteristics are more impactful than intentions in practice scope of early-career family physicians [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Family physician (FP) scope of practice (SOP) has declined, with fewer physicians providing basic primary care services and fewer bridging the clinic-hospital divide. Study Design and Analysis: A longitudinal cohort was surveyed through the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM).

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An Escape Fire for Healthcare

Noreta Family Medicine

Bill Skelton, founder of the Acupuncture Clinic here in Columbia, SC, gave me the film to watch and said he thought that as a Direct Primary Care physician and owner of Noreta Family Medicine, I would appreciate it. As a family doctor who has worked for a large hospital system in the past, I fully agree with this contention.

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Key Facts GPs Should Know About GLP-1 Analogs

Family Medicine Initiative

13 Here is some evidence: From 2004-2020, 8,718 GLP-1 analogs-associated tumors were reported to the FDA. Patients with heart failure show less hospital admissions improved symptoms (in correlation to their weight loss). Der Beitrag Key Facts GPs Should Know About GLP-1 Analogs erschien zuerst auf Family Medicine Initiative.

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Better Together: Pre-Existing Community Partnerships Assist in Development of Community-Based Service-Learning Curriculum [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied: Starting in 2020, 15 residents annually from the Mankato Family Medicine Residency Program were included. Community-based service learning is a proposed way to develop resident proficiency in core competencies and addressing and exploring social determinants of health.

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Geriatric Medicine Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

At this meeting, the Geriatric Medicine Board received statistics on the current state of certification in geriatric medicine, assessment enrollment, demographics and pass rates, and data from post-assessment surveys. Chen, MD , Chair of the Geriatric Medicine Traditional, 10-Year MOC Exam Approval Committee, and Niharika N.

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Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya

BMJ

By Paul Amendola, Executive Director, VecnaCares Reference: Bartlett L , Avery L , Ponnappan P , et al, Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000845.