Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Brief dermoscopy training has been shown to improve diagnostic accuracy on image recognition tests, but few, if any, studies have examined its effect on clinician behavior and clinical outcome measures. Conclusions: Brief dermoscopy training can improve primary care providers' skin lesion diagnostic accuracy in clinical practice.

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Primary Care Provider Nurse Practitioner Clinical Practice 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The University of California recognized this imperative and has supported the Programs in Medical Education (PRIME). At the University of California Los Angeles, the PRIME Leadership and Advocacy (PRIME-LA) program prepares medical students to be leaders and advocates in clinical care, research, or policymaking for marginalized communities.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Patients with diabetes who receive structured and integrated care have better control and outcomes; however, care may shift between multiple settings making coordination challenging. Most (n=26) patients requested a referral; twelve referrals were to diabetes education, 11 to nutrition, 9 to pharmacy, and 2 to other services.

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Primary Care Diabetes Referral Integrated Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied Upper Midwest based providers interested in providing gender affirming and primary care for transgender adults located in rural areas. Using participant feedback to iterate on an educational intervention can improve efficacy across cohorts.

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Education Primary Care Provider Community 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: We aimed to compare medication review activities between private and public clinics. Study Design: Survey of medication review activities after primary care visits. Results: Medication review forms were collected for 103 and 302 visits in private and public clinics, respectively. vs 41.1%) background.

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Clinic Medical Primary Care Insurance 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Large-scale electronic health record (EHR) programs have reported a number of issues to their implementation in primary care including physician patient-centredness and clinical performance. Setting: An academic primary care clinic based in a hospital. Sessions were virtual and recorded over Zoom.

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Electronics Education Patients Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To determine medical trainees’ perspectives on current NBM practices and on narrative humility, and to assess their views on the effectiveness of NBM education via peer-led interactive workshop. 5) that they intended to incorporate aspects of narrative humility into their clinical practice.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

BACKGROUND: Despite the emphasis of primary care’s (PC) role in breast cancer follow-up improvements have had limited clinical impact. OBJECTIVE: To prioritize implementation strategies to support PC adoption of evidence to guide breast cancer follow-up care.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Education Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The Transitional Care Management (TCM) clinic visit is a uniquely billed visit type to review a recently discharged patient’s hospital course, reconcile medications, and continue ongoing workup. Objective: Our objective was to improve the TCM clinic no-show rate and thereby improve patient outcomes.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Primary care must address the complex needs of patients with multiple chronic conditions, given 40% of patients seen in primary care have behavioral health needs. Setting/Dataset Forty-two primary care practices across the U.S. 6.1), Integration Methods 4.6 (95% 7.6), Patient Identification 2.9 (95%

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is a virtually-delivered health professions education model, designed to improve patient care by enhancing primary care capacity in specialty topics. Conclusion The burden of rheumatic disease is rising.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Management Diagnose Clinical Practice 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

One proposed reason is the lack of knowledge about PGx among clinicians slowing down the potential for clinical implementation, showing the main barrier to implementation is lack of healthcare professionals’ education. Objective The aim of this study was to explore the role of PGx in primary care (i.e.

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Primary Care Education Family Medicine DO 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Chronic pain is a common, complex, and costly condition that is managed primarily in primary care in Canada. The goal of ECHO Pain is to educate, support, and improve chronic pain and opioid management in Ontario’s rural, remote, and underserved areas.

Management 130

Management Telehealth Education Community 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population studied: This review includes English and Persian articles (1806-2023) focusing on the impacts of infectious crises on family physicians' mental health in diverse primary care settings (e.g. long-term nursing homes, clinics), highlighting their perceived needs.

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Family Physician Mental Health Families Family 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Expansion of medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) within primary care practices is often met with resistance. Objective: We offered educational videos aligned with key determinants of behavior change and assessed their impact on attitudes and intention to explore MOUD.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Education Patient-Centered Chronic Disease 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Primary care team members involved in high blood pressure management. Results: 72 care team members at 9 clinics participated. Consideration of the care team workflows (i.e., teaming) was described as essential across sites, as it promotes care quality (e.g.,

Electronics 130

Electronics Patient-Centered Hypertension Primary Care 130

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.

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Primary Care Board-Certified Patient-Centered Family Medicine 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: One of the most common primary care illnesses is acute rhinosinusitis (ARS). Patients were recruited from primary care practices, emergency rooms and urgent care centers, and the community (e.g., Guidelines currently suggest treating ARS with antibiotics when persistent symptoms or double sickening occur.

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Telemedicine Primary Care Emergency Room Patient-Centered 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care physicians and practice teams face well-documented challenges increasing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates among their patients. Multi-level interventions that address patients, clinicians, clinical care environments and larger systems (hospitals, networks, etc.)

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Primary Care Physician Clinic 130

Annals of Family Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

PURPOSE Offering medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) in primary care can increase access to effective opioid use disorder treatment and help address the US opioid crisis. METHODS This is an evaluation of an intervention to increase clinic capacity to offer MOUD.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Consulting Medical Clinic 130

Annals of Family Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

Primary care physicians (PCPs) rarely receive training about adoptees including their mental health needs and increased suicide risk. METHODS We used critical adoption studies as a theoretical framework for this study to understand how adoptive identity might shape clinical experiences.

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Primary Care Physician Primary Care Patients Mental Health 130

Canadian Family Physician

JUNE 16, 2025

The second theme described participants’ personal strategies (eg, creating flex time, setting boundaries) and system solutions (eg, need for compensation for administrative time, funding to increase clinic staff, and interventions by regulatory bodies) to address administrative burden.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Family Physician Relationship Families 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To describe how primary care clinics have considered social needs in DM, and identify opportunities to support primary care clinics. Setting: Ambulatory clinics (e.g.,

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Diabetes Management Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Physicians receive little QI training in their formal education and require professional development opportunities to learn necessary QI training and skills. Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore what is required to conduct QI work, the supports and resources necessary, and perceptions of QI prioritization to improve healthcare.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Primary Care Physician Education Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Reaching rural or low-income pregnant and postpartum women with parenting education designed to support healthy child development is difficult for a range of logistic reasons. Setting: 17 WIC clinics in a rural southern state. Leveraging an existing program that serves this target population can alleviate the access barrier.

Education 130

Education Community Primary Care Specialization 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Medical Office Assistants (MOAs) are front line workers and the most accessible member of the team for patients seeking primary care. Historically, their contributions to primary care have been unrecognized and undervalued. The COVID-19 pandemic put pressure on existing roles and systems in primary care.

Family Medicine 130

Family Medicine DO Primary Care Families 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Partnerships between Comprehensive Cancer Centers and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) in these communities is critical to build capacity among primary care providers (PCPs) and staff (e.g., Context: Cervical cancer burden is high in the Chinese and Latinx communities.

Education 130

Education Screening Patient-Centered Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: 1) prioritize community needs by analyzing EHR metrics of the residency clinic site; 2) map AAFP curriculum topics to EHR results to identify training gaps; 3) triangulate EHR results with resident and faculty survey data. Study Design and Analysis: We conducted a multi-method study, incorporating both survey and EHR data.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 17, 2019

She is passionate about medical education and is excited to be staying at UAB next year doing both adult primary care and pediatric hospital medicine. [link] Episode description Drs. In her spare time she enjoys reading (and is proud of the book club she started in Birmingham), doing calligraphy, and traveling.

Clinic 52

Clinic Internal Medicine Primary Care Education 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Successful implementation required the development of a scalable family history collection tool, the Genetic and Wellness Assessment (GWA) and Breast Health Assessment (BHA) tools; integrated pharmacogenomics programming; educational programming; electronic medical record integration; and robust clinical decision support tools.

Community 130

Community Patient-Centered Primary Care Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: 1) implement an ICP for adults with complex needs in health and social services organizations and primary care clinics; 2) evaluate organizational and governance factors influencing implementation; and 3) make recommendations from key stakeholders to facilitate scale-up.

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Integrated Care Primary Care Healthcare Professional Management 130

The Clinical Problem Solvers

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Her clinical interests include pulmonary and critical care, the care of geriatric patients in the ICU, ethics and communication, and medical education. She is an intern of the Brigham and Women’s Internal Medicine Residency/Division of General Internal Medicine Primary Care Program in Boston, Massachusetts.

Internal Medicine 52

Internal Medicine Primary Care Education Patient-Centered 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

[link] In this Clinical Reasoning Rafael Medina Subspecialty episode, Dr. Kuchal Agadi presents a case to Dr. John Woller and Dr. Areeb Masood of a 67 year-old male with altered mental status. If you would like to get involved as a case presenter or discussant (or nominate an attending/educator), fill out the form HERE.

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Diagnosis Internal Medicine Primary Care Medical Student 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

The second piece is getting folks to be successful at restricting their calories, which works well when nutrition education and behavioral counseling strategies are combined—and even better when provided in a group setting. How might primary care physicians coordinate this care in settings with limited specialist access?

Management 52

Management Primary Care Physicals Telehealth 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Davis is a general internist and Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of California San Francisco. She serves as Associate Director for Faculty Development for the SanFrancisco VA Center of Excellence in Primary Care Education. Download CPSolvers App here RLRCPSOLVERS

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Medical Student Primary Care Patient-Centered Education 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 19, 2024

[link] In this clinical reasoning Rafael Medina Subspecialty episode, Dr. Mark Heslin presents a case to Dr. Tony Breu of a man presenting with facial swelling. If you would like to get involved as a case presenter or discussant (or nominate an attending/educator), fill out the form HERE. Case Discussant: Anthony C.

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Internal Medicine Education Primary Care Clinic 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

JULY 12, 2023

Session facilitator: Maddy Conte The goal of this series is to expand access to subspecialty, primary care, and internal medicine-adjacent specialty education to learners around the world. If you would like to get involved as a case presenter or discussant (or nominate an attending/educator), fill out the form HERE.

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Patients Internal Medicine Primary Care Education 52