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Forecasting and adapting to the family medicine workforce shortage

The Health Policy Exchange

Projecting future physician workforce needs is a challenging calculation that must take multiple variables into account to avoid missing its mark. is actually experiencing a physician shortage that will worsen with population growth, the aging of the baby boomer generation, and an influx of newly insured from the Affordable Care Act.

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Do Wellness Interventions During Residency Impact Burnout of Family Physicians 3 Years into Practice? [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Physician burnout continues to rise. Evidence suggests that it begins during medical training, persisting into practice. The Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education has mandated incorporation of wellness curricula into all residencies, although there is limited data related to intervention effectiveness.

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Physician focused practice and added competence on primary care quality for older adults: A propensity score-matched study [Geriatrics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Older adults frequently use primary care services, and family physicians exhibit differences in their knowledge and skills to care for older patients. Some family physicians pursue added training or focus their medical practice to increasingly care for older adults, which may influence quality of care and patient outcomes.

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Register Now for the AAFP 2024 Fall Forum CME Event

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

The Alabama Academy of Family Physicians invites medical professionals in the state to register now for the 2024 Fall Forum scheduled for the weekend of Saturday, December 14, and Sunday, December 15. AAFP is proud to offer the Musculoskeletal Knowledge Self-Assessment CME on Sunday at this event.

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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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Factors Associated with Documenting Social Determinants of Health in Electronic Health Records by Family Physicians [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Social determinants of health (SDOH) significantly impact health outcomes more than medical care alone, yet their integration into decision-making is inconsistent. Understanding SDOH documentation in electronic health records (EHRs) is crucial for care management to improve patient outcomes and mitigate health inequities.

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Primary care severe asthma registry project-phase 1: e-Delphi results for registry entry and indices of clinician behaviour [Pulmonary and critical care]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting or Dataset: The University of Toronto Practice-based and Learning Research Network (UPLEARN) in Ontario, Canada, comprises ~400 primary care physicians contributing data on ~400,000 patients.

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