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Vaccine News You Can Use – Supplemental Resources for Family Physicians

Colorado Academy of Family Physicians

Walt Larimore has compiled even more information and resources to support family physicians like you to educate your patients and communities about the importance of vaccines. See his article and CME quiz in the latest issue of the magazine.

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A Mixed Studies Literature Review on Mental Health Perceived Needs of Family Physicians in Infectious Catastrophes [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

exert significant pressure on physicians as they are the frontlines of response. Family physicians' pivotal role in prevention and crisis management exposes them to mental stressors due to the highly demanding circumstances. Results: 4191 articles were initially retrieved. Context: Catastrophes (e.g., pandemic, etc.)

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Practice Characteristics and CGM Method Selection

Physician's Weekly

They enrolled Colorado primary care practices interested in CGM and allowed them to either adopt the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Transformation in Practice Series (TIPS): CGM implementation modules or refer individuals to a virtual CGM initiation and education service led by a primary care multidisciplinary team.

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An Escape Fire for Healthcare

Noreta Family Medicine

Early in the film, family physician Dr. Erin Martin, is featured. The first barrier to integrating nutrition education into a visit is that like many of my physician colleagues, I was taught next to nothing about nutrition in medical school. Martin would have made the leap to DPC in a heartbeat! Have a good week!

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Improving the Workplace … and More!

Faithful MD

This is a brief post to share a few updates, links to recent articles, and upcoming events. Earlier this year, I was one of five family physicians chosen to join the multi-specialty national WEL Alliance. First, Gratitude!

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Foreskin care: Hygiene, importance of counselling, and management of common complications

Canadian Family Physician

Objective To highlight the escalating need for enhanced education on foreskin care among patients and health care providers, particularly as neonatal circumcision rates decline. Articles were reviewed for relevance and quality of evidence was provided with the level of evidence in parentheses throughout the review.

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Does transitional care management improve outcomes after discharge from the hospital?

Common Sense Family Doctor

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.