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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

Intervention/Instrument Virtual training program that provided educational seminars, opportunities for care conferences, telementorship, peer-cohort networking, and clinic site visits. 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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Secondary analysis of the SHaPED trial: shifting away from opioids to simple analgesics for emergency care of low back pain [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

Intervention: The SHaPED trial used a multifaceted clinician-targeted 4-week intervention to encourage guideline-adherent care that included educational seminars and materials, provision of non-opioid pain management strategies, education on referral to outpatient services and audit and feedback.

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The Massachusetts Avenue of health reform

The Health Policy Exchange

This month's Georgetown University Health Policy Seminar explored the politics of "Romneycare," a state-level health reform which in many ways made possible the future Affordable Care Act.

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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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Learning from primary care in Canada and Europe

The Health Policy Exchange

In this month's Georgetown University Health Policy Seminar, we explored two recent studies that shed light on successes and challenges of primary care reforms in Ontario, Canada and the European Union. What can family medicine in the U.S. learn from the organization of primary care in other Western countries?

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Tapping the potential applications of mHealth

The Health Policy Exchange

and abroad was the topic of a recent Georgetown University Health Policy Seminar. Mobile health, or "mHealth" for short, describes technology that allows clinicians or public health professionals to monitor and/or deliver health-related messages to patients via cellular phones, tablets, or other wireless devices.

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Caring for the underserved: The National Health Service Corps

The Health Policy Exchange

In this month's Georgetown University Health Policy Seminar, we critically evaluated the accomplishments and limitations of the NHSC in improving access to care for the medically underserved.