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Community Integration: Pushing the Boundaries for a Better World

Integrated Care News by CFHA

The plane was piloted by a native of the island, deeply committed to helping his community. What followed was a powerful expression of community and compassion. We offered trauma-informed support and helped newly displaced individuals connect with health and community resources.

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Envisioning roles for patient partners in primary health care systems of the future: A structured priority setting exercise [Patient engagement]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Primary health care (PHC) is a whole-society approach to health and well-being, providing holistic care to patients across their lifespan. Objective: To engage the PHC community and identify how patient partners can best support primary health care design, delivery, research, and education.

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Health professionals speak out against the new nuclear arms race

Common Sense Family Doctor

The organization, which later expanded its list of “gravest threats to health and survival” to include excessive military spending, fossil fuels, and climate change, provides education on the health effects of nuclear testing and reality checks on government messages (eg, duck and cover ) that suggest that nuclear war could be survivable.

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New Report: U.S. Primary Care System Crumbling Amid Historic Disinvestment and Surge in Chronic Diseases

The Physicians Foundation

primary care is posing a grave threat to the wellbeing of communities nationwide. State Highlights: Montana provides 65% of its medical training in community-based settings, far surpassing the national average of 16%. In 2022, only 24.4% of new physicians entered primary care—or 19.8% As the U.S.

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Rheumatology Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Chrostowski, DNP, APR-N, ANP-C , asked whether ABIM will offer continuing medical education (CME) credits through the LKA.

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Green Practice News: April 2025

My Green Doctor

It tells your office colleagues and patients that your healthcare practice or clinic is committed to forging a healthier work space and community. Behavior Change Happens in the Exam Room Unlike government agencies or corporations, healthcare professionals speak directly to individuals in a trusted, one-on-one setting. of total U.S.

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Episode 209: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 12 – Our Land is Our Health: Addressing Anti-Indigenous Racism in Medicine

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Learn tangible ways to center the Indigenous communities in advocacy efforts at the interpersonal and institutional level. This is especially important when we consider the lasting role colonialism, genocide, and racism has played in attempted erasure of these communities and their culture.