The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Misplaced Training Dollars: Lack of funding for community-based training impacting the primary care physician pipeline Hospital-based graduate medical education (GME) receives significantly more funding than community-based programs, a disparity linked to fewer new primary care physicians entering the workforce.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

JUNE 2, 2025

Entry level roles typically don’t require education beyond a high school diploma or GED. Advanced Practice Provider Jobs Advanced practice providers are healthcare professionals who have pursued advanced education and clinical training. Advanced practice providers play a critical role in caring for patients at PACT.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Physicians receive little QI training in their formal education and require professional development opportunities to learn necessary QI training and skills.

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Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

METHODS We used the 2019 Virginia All-Payers Claims Database to identify primary care physicians (PCPs) and the number of distinct patients seen by each physician. Multiple enabling factors (ie, marital status, education, English language proficiency) were significantly associated with PCP access.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care physicians and practice teams face well-documented challenges increasing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates among their patients. Multi-level interventions that address patients, clinicians, clinical care environments and larger systems (hospitals, networks, etc.)

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Dr. Zaar

JUNE 1, 2025

Understand the Different Types of Diabetes Doctors Before searching for a diabetes doctor, it’s important to understand the types of medical professionals who treat Type 2 diabetes: Primary Care Physician (PCP): Often the first point of contact, they handle basic diabetes management.

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Diabetes Board-Certified Management Internal Medicine 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In recent years, given significant challenges with accessing primary care physicians in Canada, there has been increased attention towards involving other health care providers, such as rehabilitation professionals, for managing different conditions.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

After residency she plans to pursue training in cardiology, and takes particular interest in transcatheter interventions and medical education. He works as a hospitalist and primary care physician. She is a second year internal medicine resident at Northwestern.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 19, 2021

She is an internationally recognized investigator in medical decision making, quality of care, and cancer prevention and outcomes, an award winning teacher, and a practicing primary care physician. She is a founding member of the 501c3 Women of Impact dedicated to advancing women leaders in healthcare.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 18, 2025

Smith proposes a pathway to redirect the medical-industrial complex "back to a more humanistic orientation," which involves commissioning a "New Flexner Report" and federally-led reforms to medical education to require schools to fully embrace the biopsychosocial model. This is not to say that this book is not worth reading - far from it.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

It takes more than just a physician’s clinical expertise to achieve optimal outcomes for these patients; it also requires effective communication and care coordination to ensure that physicians receive all the information necessary to care for their patients. Communicate clearly with appropriate non-clinical staff.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

APRIL 12, 2025

Bureau of Labor Statistics, 56% of medical assistants are employed in the offices of physicians. They may support primary care physicians, specialist physicians, or multi-specialty groups. Some medical assistants work in the offices of other health practitioners, outpatient care centers, or hospitals.

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Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

An Escape Fire for Healthcare I recently watched a film, called “ Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, ” a 2012 documentary about how the priorities in the US healthcare system are focused on increasing revenue, instead of on goals that improve health, like preventive care.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

The second piece is getting folks to be successful at restricting their calories, which works well when nutrition education and behavioral counseling strategies are combined—and even better when provided in a group setting. How might primary care physicians coordinate this care in settings with limited specialist access?

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

One of the most rewarding parts of being a primary care physician is when I am able to work with a patient to help them find answers to unexplained symptoms they have been dealing with, sometimes for years! They do not hold an educational credential that qualifies them to diagnose and treat you.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 26, 2023

Clinically, she is boarded in both Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine and practices as a primary care physician and teaching hospitalist. Her research focuses on understanding how stigma impacts access to care for people living with chronic pain and opioid use disorder. Small changes can have a large impact.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

During my training, I didn’t receive much education about radiation oncology, and I’m not entirely sure what some of the terms mean (hypofractionated means fewer sessions, right?). Anish 07:54 I would say sort of echoing what Emily was just referring to is education is key. So I think education is key.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As you know, our population is aging at a rapid speed and older, adult older persons is no longer cared for only by a geriatrician or a primary care physician. Lona: Yeah, no, I think, Thank you for the question. There’s a team now with them behind them making sure that they stay safe and held in our communities.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 97

The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Self-surveillance solutions, disease guides, educational apps as well as telehealth platforms appeared naturally in dermatology in the past decade. Usually, patients go to their primary care physician for advice or try to ask in the pharmacy on the corner what the smiling pharmacists recommend.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

That means many older adults will be relying on other primary care physicians, who already can’t keep up with demand , and nurse practitioners, whose ranks are booming. “We tend to be a little stronger in care coordination, family and patient education, and integrating care and social and medical needs.

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Vida Family Medicine

MARCH 28, 2024

As a primary care physician, I am asked about these medications at least once a day, either by a patient, a colleague, a family member, friend, or acquaintance. There is a lot of information and a lot of marketing out there creating a lot of confusion.

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Diabetes Primary Care Physician Medical Patients 52

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Alex 00:41 And we’re delighted to welcome Noelle Marie Javier, who goes by “she” “her” and is a geriatrician and palliative care doc professor, newly minted – c ongratulations – And a clinician educator at Mount Sinai in New York City. Noelle Marie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Noelle Marie 00:57 Hi, everyone.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Patient education and discussion are critical before initiating therapy. Only clinicians familiar with dosing and absorption of ER/LA opioid transdermal fentanyl who educate their patients about it should consider prescribing it. Expected clinical benefits should be weighed against risks before beginning therapy. Recommendation 4. .

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

So the data relating to the number of geriatricians in this country, salaries in comparison to hospitalists or primary care physicians. Graduated in 2013, did a two-year clinician educator track. And finally the big thing was the match. The match numbers came out and they looked as bad as they ever had for a long time.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And I think one key part is educating the field, not just my fellow cardiologists, but also primary care doctors, geriatricians, that there’s this heart failure syndrome that is kind of sneaky, and it’s kind of difficult to diagnose any. And let me even say most times to me, I think of them as well as suggestions.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 114

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As you know, our population is aging at a rapid speed and older, adult older persons is no longer cared for only by a geriatrician or a primary care physician. Lona: Yeah, no, I think, Thank you for the question. There’s a team now with them behind them making sure that they stay safe and held in our communities.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

6 This graph shows the association between primary care physician density and life expectancy among US states: 3. Having Your Own Long-Term GP Can Save Your Life Patients who choose a GP rather than a specialist as their primary care provider have a 19% 8 lower mortality and produce 22% 9 -33% 8 lower healthcare spending.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 21, 2024

We advocated for the Resident Education Deferred Interest (REDI) Act (HR 1202 / S794). The AAFP has long made clear that patients must be able to depend on their physicians to help them in making critical decisions about their health. Read more in the AAFP’s statement.

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