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Flipping the Script: A Design thinking Approach to Enhancing Interprofessional Collaboration in Primary Care [Research capacity building]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To enhance interprofessional collaboration among primary care teams within family physician groups (FMGs) and to optimize care resources along clear and simple care trajectories. One intervention consisted in facilitating discussions to highlight the role of each healthcare professional.

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Reflecting on the Success of the AAFP 2024 Annual Meeting & Scientific Symposium

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

The Alabama Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) held its 2024 Annual Meeting and Scientific Symposium from June 20 to June 23 at the beautiful Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort. Her career before this includes significant positions across Alabama, showcasing her commitment to family medicine and rural health.

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"Survival Mode": Experiences of moral distress in Canadian primary care professionals during and after the COVID-19 pandemic [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: News and scholarly reports have highlighted that primary care professionals, including physicians, nurses, social workers, and administrators, are leaving comprehensive family medicine practice because of COVID-19 circumstances that may have fostered moral distress.

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Planning scale-up of integrated care programs for people with complex needs: a multiple case study [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population studied: Key informants involved in the implementation: people with complex needs (n = 2), managers (n = 17), hospital case manager (n = 1), case managers in primary care clinics (n = 14), project managers (n = 2), physicians in charge of participating clinics (n = 4), and other healthcare professionals (n = 2).

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Why Regular Check-ups Matter: Preventive Care at Mesa Family Physicians

Mesa Family Physician

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.

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A family physician's response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade

Vida Family Medicine

This is not to mention the significant harms that we can expect to see shortly from unsafe self-induced abortions and from delays in care for nonviable pregnancies due to limitations placed on healthcare professionals. The last few years have been extremely medically and ethically challenging due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary health care workers in a district of Istanbul: A cross-sectional study from Turkey

BMJ

Family physicians and family health workers, considered reliable sources of vaccine information, have a unique position where individuals in rural and urban areas can access frequently, uninterruptedly, cheaply, and easily [2]. Two hundred seventy-six of the healthcare professionals were reached (response rate: 85.4%).