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Bup-ing Up Residency: A Dose of Change for OUD Care [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context With buprenorphine prescribing restrictions lifted, primary care physicians (PCP) are frequently the first contact for patients who have opioid use disorder (OUD) and require treatment with buprenorphine. Study Design A behavioral health curriculum was designed for second year residents.

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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. What hasn't changed is that our family medicine residents remain excited about health policy and advocacy. Phillips, Jr.

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Using Machine Learning to advance primary care: an example of predictive modeling of hypertension risk to impact outcomes [Hypertension]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: While hypertension is the most common chronic disease cared for during adult primary care visits, it is challenging to know which hypertensive patients have the highest risk of cardiovascular complications in the future. of those patients have 1-3 primary care visits per year.

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Why I don’t do “weight loss” as a primary care physician

Vida Family Medicine

From specialized obesity clinics to online services offering quick prescriptions, the options can feel overwhelming. Some of these medications might cause weight loss, but that’s not the primary goal. It's about caring for your whole self—mind, body, and soul. If you've been trying to lose weight for years, you’re not alone.

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Primary Care Physicians Responses to Treatment Burden in People With Type 2 Diabetes: A Qualitative Video Analysis in China [Original Research]

Annals of Family Medicine

METHODS We retrospectively analyzed 29 videos of GP-patient consultations in an academic general practice clinic in China. CONCLUSIONS In clinical encounters, GPs used a wide variety of approaches to respond to different aspects of the treatment burden of type 2 diabetes.

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Physicians Perspectives on the Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (ASCVD) Risk Calculator. [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Using race to guide clinical decision-making is a controversial practice and efforts to revise medical equations incorporating race are underway. Population studied: Actively practicing North Carolina internal medicine and family medicine physicians. Results: Five men and five women participated in the study.

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Book Review: Has Medicine Lost Its Mind? by Dr. Robert C. Smith

Common Sense Family Doctor

The COVID-19 pandemic and the isolation caused by public health measures to slow its spread exacerbated a mismatch between the need for mental health care and the number of professionals trained to provide that care. In Has Medicine Lost Its Mind? This relatively slim volume is divided into three parts.