Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Community Health Centres (CHCs) provide TBC for both urban and rural populations with barriers to care in Ontario, Canada, and they share a common electronic health record (EHR) system that records codes assigned by providers during an encounter.

Electronics 130

Electronics Provider Family Physician Mental Health 130

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

MAY 15, 2025

During the session, the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians actively represented the interests of its members on a range of healthcare initiatives. Sponsored by Representative Paul Lee, the legislation removes the burdensome 100-hour annual service requirement, facilitating greater access to care for underserved communities.

Insurance 130

Insurance Family Physician Hospital Management 130

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.

Family Physician 52

Family Physician Community Family Families 52

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MAY 6, 2025

The Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) Health Equity Committee has identified a need for an Interpreter Access Task Force to help identify gaps and barriers to interpreter access across the state. The task force will meet 3-5 times within a 12-month period, as determined by the task force chair and MAFP staff. Interested?

Family Physician 52

Family Physician Primary Care Telehealth Community 52

California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

MAY 14, 2025

Elimination of (State-Only) Prospective Payment System Rates to Federally Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health Clinics for Undocumented Immigrants – Eliminates Prospective Payment System rates to clinics for state-only-funded services provided to undocumented Individuals. million total funds ($1.46

Healthcare 204

Healthcare Family Physician Management Individual 204

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

APRIL 24, 2025

Minnesota’s Health Care Homes (HCH) certification program is transforming primary care by recognizing clinics that prioritize patient-centered, team-based care. This free and voluntary program offers significant benefits to clinics, health care professionals and patients across the state. What is a Health Care Home?

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Board-Certified Patient-Centered Family Medicine 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Community-based primary health care. Population Studied: Family physicians, general practitioners, and patients. learning), the use of guideline-based information in clinical practice, and subsequent patient health outcomes. Phase-2: We extracted descriptive statistics and tabulated them by type of outcome.

General Practitioner 130

General Practitioner Lab Testing Relationship Family Physician 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Safety net hospital/clinic system in Fort Worth, Texas. Intervention: A personal family physician and community health worker were assigned to each consenting patient. Population: 143 patients with 2+ hospital admissions or 4+ emergency department (ED) visits for medical indications in 6 months.

Utilities 130

Utilities Primary Care Finance Patients 130

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.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Family Physician Clinical Practice Diagnose 52

Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 12, 2025

In the two years since publication of the latest American Family Physician review article on osteoporosis , new guidelines and research studies have enhanced management of this common condition. Not only is it difficult to clinically predict osteoporosis risk, fragility fractures can occur in patients without osteoporosis.

Screening 52

Screening Family Physician Clinic Community 52

Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Watchful waiting refers to clinical observation only.

Routine Screenings 52

Routine Screenings Screening Complication Diagnose 52

Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

I’m a family physician by training. When I started over 20 years ago, saw babies being born, used to do circumcisions in clinics, and then taking care of patients as they got more mature in their life, so to speak, and really loved that. Like most everyone else, I started off really just taking care of patients.

Patient-Centered 52

Patient-Centered Patients Medical IT 52

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

However, at Mesa Family Physicians , we believe that preventive healthcare is the cornerstone of long-term wellness for our Mesa, Arizona community. Regular visits to your primary care physician at Mesa Family Physicians provide opportunities for early detection of potential health issues before they become serious problems.

Family Physician 100

Family Physician Preventive Care Preventative Care Family 100

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To understand perspectives and needs of primary care clinical staff in addressing the OUD epidemic. Study Design and Analysis: The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) hosted a year long, monthly Project ECHO ® educational series on OUD. Participants were surveyed at pre- and post-intervention.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Transportation Family Physician Education 130

Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

The US Preventive Services Task Force , the American Academy of Family Physicians , and the American College of Chest Physicians recommend annual low-dose computed tomography (CT) screening for adults 50 to 80 years of age who have at least a 20 pack-year smoking history and currently smoke or have smoked within the past 15 years.

Primary Care 59

Primary Care Screening Family Physician Family Medicine 59

Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 29, 2022

This included additional classes in medical ethics as well as a scholarly project examining the medical ethics of a specific clinical situation. All physicians are trained in medical ethics, but I have always taken a particular interest in this field. Medicine involves many extremely ethically challenging situations.

Family Physician 52

Family Physician Family Families Healthcare Professional 52

Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 11, 2025

Preventive” is more commonly used in clinical and formal writing, while “preventative” is more casual. Preventative: What’s the Difference? You may see both “ preventive ” and “ preventative ” used when talking about health. Are they the same? Both terms refer to care or actions taken to stop illness before it starts.

Illness 100

Illness Preventive Care Preventative Care Insurance 100

Canadian Family Physician

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Setting St Michael’s Hospital Academic Family Health Team, including 5 clinics and an interdisciplinary home-based outreach team, in Toronto, Ont. Design Population-based retrospective descriptive cohort study using electronic health records.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Hospital Electronics Consulting 52

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

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. The experience will certainly shape the rest of my career.

Medical Student 40

Medical Student Family Medicine DO Patient-Centered 40

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

You know your patients’ evolving story as well as their family, friends, coworkers, and the peculiarities of their local community. Over time, communication improves. On average, twice as many patients have contact with GPs than with all specialists (in offices and/or outpatient clinics) combined.

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Family Families GP 130