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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. The AFMC surveys all graduating medical students in Canada (1,838 responses and response rate of 60% in 2022).

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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. Whether these residents will acculturate to family medicine is unknown. Study Design and Analysis: Survey of US PGY1 FM residents.

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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. The University of California recognized this imperative and has supported the Programs in Medical Education (PRIME).

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Evaluation of Project ECHO(R) Sessions on Wellbeing and Burnout for Family Medicine Residents [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Burnout among family medicine residents is widespread, impacting the workforce. Study Design and Analysis: Family medicine residency programs applied to participate in the Project ECHO series. Intervention: 4 series: Fall 2022; Spring 2023; Fall 2023; Spring 2024.

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Primary care for all Americans

Common Sense Family Doctor

Don Berwick's dire warning about the existential threat of greed on the failing American health care system seems to be coming true, to the extent that the brazen assassination of an insurance company executive in midtown Manhattan elicited far more outrage about delayed or denied care than sympathy for his family's loss.

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Dr. Paul Thomas Gives the Welcome to Detroit Lecture for Incoming Class of 2027 at WSU SOM

Plum Health

These medical students will be immersed in the Detroit community over the next 4 years, and upon graduation, many of them will continue to serve the Detroit and Metro Detroit community. WSU SOM’s incoming class of 2026 had 300 Students, with 192 in-state and 108 out-of-state students.

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MAFP Supports Two Student Programs This Summer!

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

6-week Medical Student Externship - Medical Student Externship Report – Molly Mann, MS2 2023 July – August "My externship experience consisted of shadowing Dr. Der Simonian at the Falmouth Family Medicine office and at the Maine Medical Center Mother Baby Unit.