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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

Health Policy Fellowship three years ago, though I still enjoy working alongside these talented family physicians in clinic, such as Dr. Brian Antono, who recently blogged about his fellowship experiences for Harvard Medical School's Center for Primary Care. CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield joined the program in 2020.)

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

Annals of Family Medicine

CONTEXT Primary care (PC) is well-positioned to address rapidly evolving public health priorities and research meaningful to patients and other stakeholders. Culturally-competent, high-quality training is provided via coursework, seminars/workshops, and mentored, hands-on research. Research training is rate-limiting.

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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. Population Studied Upper Midwest based providers interested in providing gender affirming and primary care for transgender adults located in rural areas.

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Forecasting and adapting to the family medicine workforce shortage

The Health Policy Exchange

But how has the specialty of family medicine fared, and what else can be done to extend capacity of the existing primary care workforce? These questions were the subjects of two recent Georgetown University Health Policy seminars. Image courtesy of the American Academy of Family Physicians Modest gains in the numbers of U.S.