Family practice is not just a specialty. It's a calling. When you chose to be a family physician, you affirmed a set of ideals and took on a mission. But that mission gets harder and harder to fulfill with every passing year. Managed care. Medicare. Urgicare. Bottom-line care. The world is filling with suits, with rules, with pressures, with boundaries. It's getting hard to remember that the whole point is to help people get well and stay well over a lifetime.
Do you want to reclaim that mission? Family Practice Management is on your side. The suits and the rules and the pressures may be inevitable, but we believe that energetic, creative, proactive family physicians can still make family practice work today.
FPM shows you the variety of ways family physicians are working to preserve and advance family medicine and to improve the quality of care in today's varied practice environments. We give you tools for dismantling barriers, we help you stay in control, and we help you practice the way you want.
FPM believes that family physicians have what it takes to solve a lot of the problems facing their practices and the health care system as well. We're here to help you make family practice work today.
Why Family Practice Management?
Educational Objectives
Family Practice Management aims to promote the ideals of family practice and to help readers improve their knowledge and skills in several areas:
- High quality, cost-effective patient care
- Effective, ethical practice in managed care
- Computerizing practice and maximizing the usefulness of computers
- Diagnosis and procedure coding
- Career and practice development
- Developments in Medicare and other federal health care programs
- The evolving health care system and the place of family practice in it
- Balancing the demands of professional and personal life
- Developing and exercising leadership skills
