Secure your ticket for POP! 2025 in beautiful San Diego, September 5–7. Whether you're a practicing physician, resident, or medical student, POP! is the event to learn, get inspired, and make meaningful connections in family medicine. REGISTER HERE

The California Quality Collaborative is offering a hands-on Improvement Coaching Workshop on Thursday, October 9, 2025. This interactive session is designed to equip physicians with the tools and strategies needed to drive meaningful change in their practice. Approved for 6 AAFP Prescribed Credits. Lock-in early bird pricing by August 1. REGISTER HERE

Family medicine leads the way once again—UCSF has launched the Reproductive Health Hotline (ReproHH), a free and confidential phone line for clinicians with questions about sexual and reproductive health. Staffed by expert UCSF physicians, ReproHH offers on-demand, evidence-based clinical guidance Monday through Friday, 8 AM–4 PM PT / 11 AM–7 PM ET. Call 1-844-ReproHH (1-844-737-7644). […]

By Bright Zhou, MD, MS Most of us choose Family Medicine for the meaningful long-term relationships we form with our communities in the outpatient setting. However, did y’all know that 37% of new graduates also practice inpatient medicine? As a new attending physician practicing at both a community hospital and at an academic, tertiary care hospital, […]

Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law a series of bills to enact California’s 2024–25 state budget, including Assembly Bill 102 (Committee on Budget), Senate Bill 101 (Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review), and the health omnibus trailer bill AB 116. The $321 billion spending plan, which will take effect July 1, closes a projected […]

POP! Keynote Emily Silverman, MD is an internal medicine doctor in San Francisco and Founder of The Nocturnists podcast. She was awarded Honoree of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ 100 List in 2020, which celebrates creative changemakers whose work is in service of building sustainable, equitable, and regenerative communities. LEARN MORE Facing the […]

POP! Faculty Volunteers Needed! The CAFP Foundation is seeking volunteer faculty to lend a few hours for the annual POP! Student Procedures Workshop, being held Friday, September 5th from 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm. We are offering procedural workshops in Reproductive Health (Pap Smears, Nexplanon, IUD), Ultrasound/POCUS, and MSK/Joint Injections. The high preceptor-to-participant ratio is […]

CAFP family, we are heartbroken to share with those of you who don't know that CAFP Past President Dave Bazzo passed away this past Saturday morning after a more than two year battle with glioblastoma. Dr. Bazzo was an extraordinary human being and an incredible family physician. Those of you who knew him, were trained […]

View the latest version of the 2025 Resolution Dashboard, updated and posted on our website each quarter after the CAFP Board meeting.