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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. I stepped down as director of the Robert L. Phillips, Jr.

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Extended duration of use of long-acting reversible contraceptives: Systematic review

Canadian Family Physician

Data sources A systematic search of MEDLINE, Embase, and Global Health electronic databases. Other adverse events were infrequent. Study selection The search identified articles published between January 2000 and June 2023 on long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods and extended duration of use.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

Nguyen shared the multiple benefits of an AI ambient listening tool — recently rolled out nationally to more than 25,000 Permanente physicians — that transcribes office visits (with patient consent) that can be edited and added to electronic health records. I’m a family physician by training.