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The Midwest Trans Health Education Network: Increasing Access to Gender Affirming Care Through Virtual Training Cohorts [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Gender affirming medical care is associated with long term benefits for transgender and non-binary patients but access to such care does not meet the current need. Using participant feedback to iterate on an educational intervention can improve efficacy across cohorts. This mismatch is worsened in rural communities.

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Increasing Primary Care Research Workforce and Output through T32 Primary Care Fellowship Training [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Culturally-competent, high-quality training is provided via coursework, seminars/workshops, and mentored, hands-on research. SETTING: Academic medical center. POPULATON: Trainees with terminal degree in health care or related field and interested in PC-based research careers.

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Forecasting and adapting to the family medicine workforce shortage

The Health Policy Exchange

In the mid-1990s, the American Medical Association confidently predicted that the penetration of managed care would lead to a large "physician surplus" and convinced Congress to cap the number of graduate medical education (GME) positions subsidized by the Medicare program.

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Nutrition and dietary guidelines: stirring the (policy) pot

The Health Policy Exchange

At first glance, federal nutrition policy seemed to be an unusual topic for our Georgetown Health Policy Seminar for family physicians. As described in a recent JAMA Internal Medicine editorial , future doctors receive little formal instruction about healthy dietary habits. The USDA Food Pyramid, circa 1990.

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Program Edukasi dan Pelatihan Texas Medical Association bagi Tenaga Medis

Me and My Doctor

Texas Medical Association (TMA) adalah organisasi medis terbesar di Texas, Amerika Serikat, yang memiliki misi utama untuk meningkatkan kesehatan masyarakat dan memastikan kualitas tinggi dalam praktik kedokteran di seluruh negara bagian.

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What is a Leadership Course

LEAD Physician

For these reasons, physicians must learn about leadership skills not just as part of their general education but also as part of their continuing medical education (CME). These experiences can help physicians build resilience, which will prepare them for the many challenges they will face in a busy medical practice.