Although AAFP News Now regularly covers developments that affect family physicians on the national level, many of those developments originate in the various AAFP constituent chapters. The Chapter Spotlight series is designed as an opportunity to look at chapters, their members and the innovative ideas being promulgated at the chapter level. Many chapters, their members and their communities struggle with the same problems, and this series allows these stories to be told so other AAFP members can learn from their lessons.
Part of the U.S. mission in Afghanistan in 2003 was to build a medical infrastructure to strengthen the autonomy of the Afghan people. Here, Col. Mary Krueger, M.D., immunizes a young woman of childbearing age against tetanus in an attempt to decrease one of the leading causes of neonatal death in that country.
USAFP Chapter is Connection Point for Military FPs Worldwide
(4/25/2012, 4:40 p.m.)
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On March 22, during its annual meeting in Las Vegas, the Uniformed Services AFP (USAFP) installed its new president via the Internet phone service known as Skype. The Las Vegas ballroom was packed with USAFP chapter members and their families who exploded in applause and rose to their feet cheering when they saw Col. Michael Place, M.D., on an enormous screen at the front of the room. Place was sitting in an army tent with an American flag placed strategically behind him. It was the middle of the night somewhere in Afghanistan when AAFP President Glen Stream, M.D., M.B.I., of Spokane, Wash., stepped to the stateside podium to administer the oath of office to Place. And then Stream turned the laptop armed with a webcam around to the audience.
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Kansas AFP Seeks Out Resources to Help Members Transform Practices
(3/30/2012, 5:25 p.m.)
Family Medicine Message Resonates With Rural Oregon During Student Bike Tour
(2/29/2012, 4:55 p.m.)
Alaska AFP Provides 'Gathering Place' for Far-flung Physicians
(1/31/2012, 6:00 p.m.)
Texas AFP Overcomes Attempts to Legislate Independent Practice for Nurses
(12/28/2011, 8:10 p.m.)
Kentucky FPs Join Fight to Make Pseudoephedrine Prescription-only
(11/30/2011, 7:05 p.m.)
Indiana AFP Values Opportunity to Serve, Mingle With State Legislators
(10/26/2011, 3:55 p.m.)
Pennsylvania AFP Assists Primary Care Residencies, Practices With PCMH, EHR Initiatives
(9/30/2011, 4:10 p.m.)
Illinois AFP Focused on Helping Small Practices Meet Challenges of Health Care Reform
(8/31/2011, 5:40 p.m.)
California AFP Teams Up With State's Family Medicine Residents to Spotlight Specialty
(7/27/2011, 6:35 p.m.)
Georgia AFP Provides Funds, Support to Launch 'PCMH University'
(6/30/2011, 5:35 p.m.)
Magnolia State Grows Its Own Rural Primary Care Physicians
(5/25/2011, 1:55 p.m.)
Family Physician Efforts Put Rhode Island on Front Line of PCMH Implementation
(4/30/2011, 1:30 p.m.)
Community-focused Colorado Health Care System Touted as National Model
(3/30/2011, 5:00 p.m.)
Geography Challenges Hawaii AFP's Ability to Grow Family Medicine
(2/28/2011, 7:10 p.m.)
Arkansas FPs, Other Physicians Rally to Help Injured Colleague
(1/31/2011, 7:40 p.m.)
Louisiana AFP Members, PCMH Critical to Health Care Revitalization in New Orleans
(12/22/2010, 4:15 p.m.)
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