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Resources to Help Incorporate Procedures Into FPs' Practices

By News Staff
1/17/2006

Check out these Web sites for courses and articles on incorporating procedures into your practice.
  1. Procedural Skills: Hands-On Opportunities, April 7-8 in Kansas City, Mo., and Sept. 1-2 in Albuquerque, N.M.,
  2. AAFP CME courses on topics such as skin care, women's health, maternal-child care and sports medicine,
  3. 2006 AAFP Scientific Assembly, Sept. 27-Oct. 1, Washington, D.C. (course offerings to be listed online in May; brochure to be mailed in May),
  4. The National Procedures Institute,
  5. "Advanced Procedures in Family Medicine: The Cutting Edge or the Lunatic Fringe?" (PDF file: 4 pages / 314 KB. More about PDFs.) from The Journal of Family Practice, March 2004, and other articles by W.M. Rodney, M.D.
  6. "Impact of the Limited Generalist (No Hospital, No Procedures) Model on the Viability of Family Practice Training," (PDF file: 10 pages / 91 KB. More about PDFs.) from The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice, May-June 2002.

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