New AAFP President Ada Stewart, MD, told virtual FMX attendees that it was time for Family Medicine to take “its rightful place as the foundation of a high-quality health care system.” In her address as the newly installed AAFP president on Oct. 13, Ada Stewart, M.D., offered a lesson on a topic that FMX attendees […]
by Brent K. Sugimoto, MD, MPH, FAAFP, originally appearing in the California Family Physician Magazine, Fall 2020 On March 3, 1991, four White officers of the Los Angeles Police Department beat an unarmed Rodney King, a Black man, 56 times until he had among his injuries, a fractured cheekbone, 11 broken bones at the […]
Want to learn how to lead change to provide stability, improve your care team’s morale, and boost physician well-being in your workplace? Leading Physician Well-being (LPW) is a tuition-free certificate program from the AAFP and United Health Foundation that’s designed to help you spearhead change in your practice or organization. Starting in 2021, the LPW […]
Have you experienced feelings of burnout in the past five years? CAFP, Illinois AFP, American Board of Family Medicine and Robert Graham Center are conducting a study on burnout in family physicians to better understand burnout in the female family physician workforce. We aim to identify interventions, supports, or policy/structural changes that would be most […]
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San Diego Academy of Family Physicians [SDAFP] will be hosting their 63rd Annual Symposium ‘Family Medicine Update 2020’ on October 2–4, 2020. At the conclusion, participants should be able to: -Determine patients at risk for a particular medical condition in order to control or prevent further complications -Detect and provide treatment for a variety of disease states typically […]
Evaluation and management (E/M) codes are at the core of most family physician practices. Family physicians and other qualified health professionals can maximize payment and reduce the stress associated with audits by understanding how to properly document and code for E/M services. CMS has revised the E/M documentation and coding guidelines, with changes beginning January 1, 2021. These fundamental changes (www.ama-assn.org) are intended to reduce administrative burden and increase the amount of time physicians […]
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has selected Rita Hamad, MD, PhD as the 2020 James C. Puffer, MD/American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) Fellow. Dr. Hamad serves as associate professor and as Director of Social Policies for the Health Equity Research (SPHERE) program in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Philip […]
By Shannon Connolly, MD, FAAFPCAFP President-Elect I had the tremendous honor of meeting Ruth Bader Ginsburg as an undergraduate. My college was presenting her with an honorary degree at commencement, and by some stroke of pure dumb luck, I was selected as one of a handful of students to attend a reception with her the […]
