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Celebrating Ten Years of ECHO Ontario Chronic Pain and Opioid Stewardship [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Chronic pain is a common, complex, and costly condition that is managed primarily in primary care in Canada. The goal of ECHO Pain is to educate, support, and improve chronic pain and opioid management in Ontario’s rural, remote, and underserved areas.

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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. Kenny Lin, MD, MPH Director, Robert L. Phillips, Jr.

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MN Legislative Session 2025: MAFP Priorities Remain in Play

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

These include health care, jobs and labor, K-12 education, energy, higher education, taxes, transportation and bonding. Medical Assistance Rate Reimbursement – Aligning primary care reimbursement rates under Medical Assistance with Medicare rates.

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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

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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Staying psychologically safe as a doctor during the COVID-19 pandemic

BMJ

Some will be at the forefront, others will be doing telehealth, or may find themselves back in a hospital situation rather than in the community. By Jill Benson, Discipline of General Practice, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, jill.benson@adelaide.edu.au

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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

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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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

Kate: Yeah, some of the thoughts I’ve had in thinking about this: we did not require communication, training and education of the clinicians. Palliative care outpatient was a single visit a month for six months. We started pre-pandemic and very quickly it went to telehealth, so it was primarily telehealth.