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How to Prepare for Your Preventive Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

Dr. James Martínez, family medicine physician at Community Health Partners, explains: “Preventive care represents one of the most powerful tools we have in medicine. The Affordable Care Act requires insurance companies to cover a wide range of preventive services without patient cost-sharing.

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Pathways to primary care for underserved communities

Common Sense Family Doctor

Several past colleagues in the family medicine department at Georgetown recently published an informative scoping review of specialty disrespect in the medical learning environment. The authors term "primary care yield" as the percentage of physicians who start training in primary care and complete it in primary care.