Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: 1) Measure the uptake of publicly-funded vaccines against respiratory infections; 2) Understand the hesitancy towards these vaccines in a population of adults followed in Family Medicine Groups (FMGs). Recruitment continues but will close before NAPCRG, final results will be presented.

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Primary Care Vaccination Family Doctor Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Family physicians in Canada have one of the broadest scopes of practice and shortest postgraduate residency training periods among high income nations. In 2018, the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) reviewed Canadian family medicine training and determined it must evolve to meet contemporary societal needs.

Family Medicine 130

Family Medicine DO Education Family 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) recognizes the critical role of family medicine (FM) research in primary care and healthcare systems. Engaging researchers and leveraging evidence are essential for addressing the challenges faced by FM and family physicians.

Family Physician 130

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JULY 11, 2024

Dr. Marco Cornelio presented a brief overview of opportunities with the MAFP and AAFP.

Family Medicine 40

Family Medicine DO Families Family 40

Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

DECEMBER 27, 2024

A couple of years ago, I partnered with six family medicine residency programs for my CHARM Well-Being Leaders Longitudinal Certificate Course project. Prioritizing your well-being makes you more efficient, effective, and present. This benefits not just you but also your family, friends, colleagues, staff, and patients.

Physicals 130

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The Cohort in Primary Care (COPRI) is ongoing in 29 Family Medicine Groups (FMG) across Québec. Study design and analysis: Time between each step of the submission process were measured in days and descriptive results will be presented with tables and figures.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Family Medicine DO Families 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Intervention ECHO Pain started in June 2014 and offered weekly 90-minute sessions that include a didactic lecture followed by a de-identified patient case presentation. In this study, we present a narrative summary of our program achievements and research in the past ten years.

Management 130

Management Telehealth Education Community 130

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 1, 2025

At a recent conference, a neurologist demonstrated an AI tool that captured and structured his clinical notes while he was able to be present and maintain eye contact with the patient. Annals of Family Medicine , 23(1), 5–6. How are you integrating AI into your clinical, teaching or supervisory work? References Menchaca, J.

Patient-Centered 130

Patient-Centered Integrated Care Primary Care Healthcare Professional 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: New ACGME guidelines in Family Medicine Residency training newly encourage training in point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS). In accordance with ACGME recommendations, we performed a community needs assessment to inform POCUS curriculum development within a Family Medicine residency.

Community 130

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Hospitals write discharge summaries to family medicine providers. Family medicine is uniquely placed to help, but lacks structures, tools and funding to do so. Objective The GP-MATE study has built a new intervention for family medicine and patients/carers through co-design.

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GP Family Medicine DO Hospital 130

Annals of Family Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

PURPOSE Family medicine research is essential to improving population health. Increasing research capacity continues to be a challenge; however, recent literature has touted the success of incentivization in several academic medicine specialties. Summary statistics and logistical regression analyses were conducted.

Family Medicine 130

Family Medicine DO Family Families 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Individuals with diabetes often present with co-occurring chronic conditions (CC), or multimorbidity. of respondents with diabetes presented with CC, FL, and GS, whereas only 1.8% presented with at least 6 conditions, including 18.4% When examining C-MM, 61.6% had none of these conditions, 10.5%

Diabetes 130

Diabetes Chronic Condition Education Individual 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Emergency department clinicians (physicians, nurses and physiotherapists) (n=269) and patients aged 18 years and older who presented to an emergency department with non-specific or radicular low back pain (n=4,625) were included.

Management 130

Management Referral Education Patients 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Background: Multiple chronic conditions (MCC) the most common condition seen in practice are present in 33% of adults and 80% of individuals age > 65. Results of testing and evaluation will be presented.

Chronic Condition 130

Chronic Condition Patient-Centered Primary Care Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Owing to the protean clinical presentations, heterogeneous diagnoses discussed in each patient case presented, and varied management approaches, capturing impact regarding clinical outcomes has proven challenging.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Management Diagnose Clinical Practice 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: CERA (Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance) is a collaboration of the academic family medicine organizations (STFM, AFMRD, NAPCRG, and the ADFM) with the goal of facilitating and improving educational research in family medicine.

Family Medicine 130

Family Medicine DO Education Family 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The SPARK Tool presents a validated tool which can serve as a standard for the systematic and routine collection of demographic and social needs data in health care. Conclusions: The SPARK Tool performed reasonably well with a large diverse sample, demonstrating comparable classification with well-established national survey questions.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Individual 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Instruments: The Teams video conferencing platform and the Mentimeter interactive presentation software were used for data collection and recording. Setting: Quebec, Canada Population studied: Occupational therapists providing chronic self-management support interventions.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Management Chronic Condition Education 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population: We interviewed family physician educators based at three teaching units in Montreal. Using a purposive approach to recruitment, participants had to be practising family doctors who supervised family medicine residents in their clinics. Supporting quotes will be presented for each theme.

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Education Family Families 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied A total of 1,305 women presenting for CC screening and 50 CC providers at the study hospitals were surveyed. Study Design A cross-sectional survey was conducted as part of a larger randomized controlled trial evaluating a web-based intervention to improve retention in CC care.

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Screening Provider Hospital Government 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study design and analysis: Descriptive statistics were used in SPSS to present demographics and responses and Chi-squared tests evaluated relationships between demographics and attitudes. Objective: To understand COVID-19's impact on physicians-in-training and their preparedness and well-being amidst clinical and lifestyle changes.

Telemedicine 130

Telemedicine Education Telehealth Mental Health 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Patients will complete all visits by August 2024 and completed patient data, including satisfaction data, will be presented. Two practices were FQHCs. 145 patients were referred and 73 patients enrolled in the study (~50% enrollment rate). 61 patients completed a virtual CGM initiation visit and 50 completed at least one interpretation visit.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Diabetes Patients Education 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In the US, opioid use disorder (OUD) presents significant and urgent public health concerns. Unfortunately, most individuals suffering from OUD do not have access to necessary care. A critical shortage of clinicians who specialize in treating patients with OUD exacerbates this issue.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Education Individual Screening 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The results have been integrated during the experts’ consultation to collect data on professional practice and the integration of SDM for PCCNs. Setting Any context across PCCNs healthcare services utilization.

Mental Health 130

Mental Health Chronic Condition Consulting Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Resulting resources were drafted, circulated, and finalized with partners’ input and include written project summaries, an overview presentation, technical definitions, and FAQs plus project overview and dashboard demonstration videos.

Community 130

Community Healthcare Electronics Patient-Centered 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Scatter plot visualization of the data revealed a trend of lower patient-centredness and SOO scores with increased proportion of time actively using the EHR and navigating within the EHR while the simulated patient was present. Overall, this was not a statistically significant correlation.

Electronics 130

Electronics Education Patients Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective The present study investigates the factors influencing the dynamics of medication and non-medication adherence in young Chinese adults with hypertension. However, the factors influencing the dynamics of adherence among young Chinese patients with hypertension remain unclear.

Hypertension 130

Hypertension Patient-Centered Family Families 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: This study was conducted at the 2023 annual Primary Care Leadership Track retreat for Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and at the 2023 GHHS Northeast Regional Conference. Population Studied: Participants were mainly medical students, as well as residents and clinicians.

Education 130

Education Medical Medical Student Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We will be presenting findings from the baseline and weekly urine cultures. We will describe the urine samples in terms of appearance, microscopy and significant growth on culture and have included exploratory work on urinary biomarkers and novel point-of-care tests. We have currently recruited 69 participants from eight care homes.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 23, 2021

[link] Simone and Lindsey present a case to Dr. Kirsten Austad, followed by a discussion about women in leadership and “the double bind” Want to test your learning? She completed her residency in Family Medicine at Boston Medical Center, the largest safety-net hospital in New England.

Clinic 52

Clinic Family Medicine DO Patient-Centered 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Discussion: Quebec's current organizational context presents obstacles to integrating reflexivity-based training into prenatal services, but existing resources and strategies could be marshalled to overcome these challenges.

Healthcare Professional 130

Healthcare Professional Education Healthcare Management 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The rampant rise in the prevalence of diabetes presents a public health burden and a challenge to the primary care setting. Diabetes Self-management Coaching is an emergent, client-centered, solution-focused approach to enhancing self-efficacy and self-care behavior.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Diabetes Individual Management 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

MOHR presented a list of 10-15 actionable evidence-based strategies that patients could select to improve the risk. Intervention Patients were connected with a patient navigator to help them complete a Health Risk Assessment (HRA) and care planning tool, MOHR. Patients could create a care plan for up to two identified risks.

Mental Health 130

Mental Health Primary Care Patients Community 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Efforts to reduce frequent and multi-dimensional acute care presentations using current care models appear ineffective. Health services must contain costs and meet the felt needs of under-resourced personal journeys and underserved communities. Conclusion: Super-utilization is an expanding concern within academic literature.

Utilities 130

Utilities Management Hospital Community 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The present study reports on the findings from one-year follow-up qualitative data collected to better understand the interventions’ effects. Therefore, we conducted a comparative effectiveness trial (N=770) to assess the impact of MBT and CBT over one year on pain, function, QoL and opioid dose.

Management 130

Management Mental Health Physicals Community 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Positive or negative reported effects were not consistently attributed to certain practice characteristics, and yet clinicians emphasized several qualities which were present across clinic settings. But independent practitioners also felt a lack of agency in the struggle for funding and resources in a system built around larger institutions.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Clinic Healthcare Management 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The context: Immigrants, particularly those moving from lower to higher-income countries, often exhibit a heightened susceptibility to non-communicable diseases, such as Type 2 diabetes (T2D), which may manifest at an earlier age and present with different complications compared to the native population.

Complication 130

Complication Diabetes Individual Chronic Disease 130