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Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

That small win reminded me that artificial intelligence is already shaping the way our patients (and our families) search for health advice. Traylor and colleagues (2025) show that generative‑AI tools can boost health literacy by translating medical jargon into plain language. Annals of Family Medicine , 23(1), 5–6.

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Family Practice: A more balanced, not just negative narrative based on data and evidence [Secondary data analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Concerns about family practice are well-founded, but also negatively biased. This can fuel poor impressions among medical students and dispirit practicing family physicians. Objective: Give a balanced description of family medicine and family practice, including positive evidence that is lacking in the public narrative.

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Pajama Time: The Association of EHR Documentation Time with Family Medicine Resident Outcomes [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design and Analysis: Survey of US family medicine (FM) residents. Setting or Dataset: 2023 American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) National Resident Survey (NRS) administered in October 2023 at the end of the ABFM (In-Training Exam) ITE merged with ABFM administrative data. There were no differences by EHR brand.

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Training a diverse physician workforce: a survey of alumni of a medical education program focused on underserved populations [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Concerns about declining diversity among medical students have emerged due to the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling against race-based affirmative action in college admissions. Medical schools must now eliminate race or ethnicity considerations, making it imperative to develop innovative approaches to preserve recent progress.

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Differences between Residents by How They Matched into Family Medicine: Does SOAP make a difference? [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: In the US, medical students enter residency through The Match. For many who didn’t initially match, family medicine (FM) may not have been their first choice. vs. 64.2%), and be an international medical graduate (40.9% Whether these residents will acculturate to family medicine is unknown. Overall, 10.4%

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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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Optimizing Medical Legal Partnerships for sustainable public funding through the tele-legal model [Mixed methods research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Medical legal partnerships (MLP) are an effective intervention for social determinants of health, like housing, education, and employment status. Study Design and Analysis: Tele-legal services were provided by one full time poverty lawyer and paralegal January 2021-June 2023.

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