Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In response to a call initiated by CIHR in 2023, inviting patient, public, and community participation, the Patient Council of the Canadian Primary Care Research Network (CPCRN) responded with a Report on March 25, 2024.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To examine the association between community-based training and subsequent care of population in the community with high social needs among family physicians Study Design and Analysis: A retrospective cohort study. Results: Among the 15,851 family physicians in this study, 36.1%

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In October 2023, the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) and the Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM) announced their strategic plan for family medicine research. One emphasis of the plan is to develop and normalize the team science approach in family medicine research.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The ECHO (Extensions for Community Healthcare Outcomes) model is an ideal platform for dissemination of best practice guidelines and standards of care in common, complex, acute and chronic conditions. Results From November 2019 to June 2024, 636 clinicians attended ECHO Concussion sessions. 11 (9%) participated in FGDs.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JULY 11, 2024

Doc4aDay is a community outreach program provided through the Maine Medical Center Department of Medical Education. For the past few years, MAFP has provided financial support for this opportunity hoping to encourage young adults in communities under-represented in medicine to become physicians (and hopefully family physicians!).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Burnout among family medicine residents is widespread, impacting the workforce. As part of the BRIDGE program, the AAFP hosted Project ECHO® (ECHO: Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) sessions, focusing on resident wellbeing and burnout prevention. Setting: 4 Project ECHO series with a total of 61 residencies.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: We evaluated seven IPCT meetings from December 2022 to January 2024 with 80 project representatives invited to attend across 29 project categories. The IPCT brought together disciplines across primary care and developed a community intending to continue collaborating beyond the TPC project.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A Collaborative Approach Between Health Care Providers and Community Partners Food insecurity affects thousands of Minnesotans, often contributing to chronic health conditions and overall poor health outcomes. An excerpt follows: 2024-04. Essentia Health partners with Second Harvest Northland to provide emergency food access.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: Electronic health record data from 11 community-based clinics within a safety-net system in the Midwest from 07/01/2021-3/31/2024. Objective: To examine the association of level of risk of 11 SDOH indicators and provision of assistance for tobacco cessation. Design and Analysis: Observational study.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Hospitals write discharge summaries to family medicine providers. Family medicine is uniquely placed to help, but lacks structures, tools and funding to do so. Objective The GP-MATE study has built a new intervention for family medicine and patients/carers through co-design.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 19, 2025

This position statement from the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) outlines our organizational commitment to Measurement-Based Care (MBC) as a foundational element of integrated healthcare. Families, Systems, & Health, 39(2), 259–268. Use of Measurement-Based Care for Behavioral Health Care in Community Settings.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Understanding where Ontario’s family physicians practice and how many can provide language-concordant care to official language minority communities can inform future research and policy development. Outcomes Measured: Prevalence and distribution of community-based family physicians in Ontario (all, and French-speaking).

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 8, 2025

A 2024 editorial in Science , noting rising tensions between the United States and Russia, China, and North Korea, observed that “the risk of nuclear war has not been so high since the Cuban Missile Crisis.” Both countries are spending enormous amounts to modernize their existing arsenals.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Family physicians are being squeezed by two accelerating trends: (1) too few of us to care for the growing US population and (2) the rising number of tasks that we are asked to accomplish for each patient. Since 2020, the starting ages for breast, lung, and colorectal cancer screening were lowered to 40, 50, and 45 years, respectively.

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Permanente Medicine

APRIL 16, 2025

The affiliation between NWP and TPMG strengthens the commitment to high-value, quality-driven care for their patients and communities. Through this affiliation, we will bring cutting-edge IT, virtual care capabilities, and more than 100 specialties and subspecialties to benefit the patients and communities of Oregon and southwest Washington.”

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Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

Primary care improves the health of communities and decreases health inequities. Guided by the Andersen model of health care utilization, we identified predisposing, enabling, need, and structural community characteristics from public data sources. Analyses were performed from 2023 to 2024. RESULTS In Virginia, 56.0%

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Using a community-based research approach, our study aims to understand healthcare navigation, in addition to facilitators and barriers to health services among Latino Farmworkers. Setting: Our focus group sessions were conducted at various community sites in El Centro, Brawley, and Calexico, California.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

They explore the impact of racism, trauma, and inequities in care, while emphasizing the need for culturally grounded, community-based prevention. Clinically, he cares for youth and families through the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the new Division of Addiction Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 1, 2025

An article on acute migraine headaches in the April 2025 issue of American Family Physician reviewed current treatment strategies for acute migraine headaches, which “account for … 3.6 million primary care visits annually and are the fifth most common reason for emergency department visits” in the United States.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

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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ABIM

JUNE 12, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. In 2024, 75% of ABIM Board Certified geriatricians who chose an assessment opted for the LKA, while 68% of ABFM geriatricians chose the LKA. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

She was awarded the Society of Biological Psychiatry Humanitarian Award and the Community Outreach Award by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Clinically, he cares for youth and families through the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the new Division of Addiction Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 22, 2025

In the 2024 National Committee for Quality Assurance’s annual report , Kaiser Permanente’s commercial and Medicare plans rated highest or tied for highest for overall treatment, prevention, equity, and patient experience among competitors in every geographic region served. million Kaiser Permanente members.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

AUGUST 29, 2024

Read Summer Edition Part 2 - HERE Some of the faces of MAFP 32nd Annual Family Medicine Update - April 2024 - "Campfire Conference" Congratulations to our newest *AAFP Fellows and members of the MAFP Board of Directors! Fellows of the AAFP are recognized as champions of family medicine.

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California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

MAY 14, 2025

The revenue from this tax has been used to fund key Medi-Cal services, such as supplemental payments for family planning and reproductive health care services and dental care. CAFP is actively advocating to preserve critical workforce funding that trains and sustains family physicians across the state. million total funds ($1.46

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Sound Physicians

OCTOBER 30, 2024

I was born and raised in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, before immigrating to Toronto with my family. We understand each other’s personal and family situations, so if a need arises, we can handle it accordingly. It allows for better communication and more compassion in how you deliver care.

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PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

Learning Objectives Demonstrate the ability to use shared decision-making strategies when discussing imaging options with families of pediatric patients presenting to the Emergency Department. 2024-066854. 2024-066855. Optimizing Advanced Imaging of the Pediatric Patient in the Emergency Department: Policy Statement. Pediatrics.

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Family Physicians of Greeley

APRIL 22, 2024

Whether you’re a parent, caregiver, educator, or simply curious about autism, this post aims to provide a comprehensive overview of what autism is and what it means for individuals and their families. The post Demystifying Autism: Understanding the Spectrum appeared first on Family Physicians of Greeley, PLLP.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Add in the complexities of family life, child-rearing, and pursuing any interest outside of your career, and much of your time is spoken for. You spend your life dedicated to patient care while still hoping to leave work and have the energy to be mentally and physically present for your families and friends.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 28, 2025

For comparison, there were 285 cases of measles in the United States in 2024, and there have already been more reported cases than in all but two years since 2000. In a 2024 American Family Physician editorial , Dr. Doug Campos-Outcalt reviewed best practices for diagnosis and prevention of measles. since last week.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

She enjoyed talking with the half dozen other residents at her adult family home in Washington state. “It’s also often the family member or the person helping to manage them.” According to a 2024 survey , of the roughly 431,000 licensed nurse practitioners, 15% are, like Johnson, certified to treat older adults.

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Myriad Genetics

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Storm was first diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) in January 2024 and underwent a lumpectomy shortly after. It wasn’t until her own diagnosis that she realized that cancer on both sides of her family – maternal and paternal – could have an impact on her lifetime risk of getting breast cancer. What should you ask?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 4, 2024

Her research, writing, and community engagement focuses on shifting consciousness in medical education toward abolitionist possibilities. She came from an activist family, with her mother being one of the first South Asian feminist activists in the country. Learn more about her work at www.sayantanidasgupta.com.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

It will support one to three projects that focus on tracking and understanding health issues in the community, CNN reported. This multi-disciplinary research program will focus on public health tracking and surveillance of the community’s health conditions.” The new funding will take a more in-depth look at possible long-term impacts.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. They created a seamless link between this Community Partnership program and 911 calls for falls. Eric and I enjoyed talking with Carmen and Katie about this innovative and common sense approach to addressing falls in the community. Word of mouth spread rapidly.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And so, three years of seeing over and over people having really difficult end of life experiences in the ICU, not being able to advocate for themselves, a lot of trauma for their families, I just thought, we have to do better than this. In their communities?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. The more we can notice that, the more we can actually be present for that family and actually see how they’re experiencing it. Family member, and with some chagrin- Eric: Powerful nudge. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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