Prioritizing Primary Care Can Save the U.S. Health Care System -- FPM
Aug 1, 2021 - Payers are being asked to commit to a change in primary care financing in the next two years.
Family Practice Management : Opinion
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2021/0700/p6.html
Practical Ways to Manage Your EHR Inbox -- FPM
Aug 1, 2021 - These 10 tips can help reduce your workload during and after clinic, so you can focus on what matters most.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2021/0700/p27.html
FMLA Does Not Need to Be a Four-Letter Word -- FPM
Aug 1, 2021 - These tips can help you complete FMLA paperwork quickly and accurately.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2021/0700/p12.html
Addressing Administrative Simplification -- FPM
Aug 1, 2021 - Physicians are spending too much time on paperwork and EHR-related tasks, but what can be done?
Family Practice Management : From the Editor
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2021/0700/p5.html
Practice Efficiency -- FPM Topic Collection
Jul 13, 2021 - This article collection features popular FPM content on the subject of practice efficiency. This article collection features popular FPM content on the subject of practice efficiency.
Family Practice Management : Topic Collections
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/topicModules/viewTopicModule.htm?topicModuleId=44
Physician Burnout & Work-Life Balance -- FPM Topic Collection
Jul 13, 2021 - This article collection features popular FPM content on the subject of life balance -- from finding joy in your work to blending work and family. This article collection features popular FPM content on the subject of life balance -- from finding joy in your work to blending work and ...
Family Practice Management : Topic Collections
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/topicModules/viewTopicModule.htm?topicModuleId=43
Prioritizing Primary Care Can Save the U.S. Health Care System - Editorials - American ...
Jul 1, 2021 - Can prioritizing primary care save the U.S. health care system?
American Family Physician : Editorials
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2021/0700/p14.html
Flexibility Envisioned in New Residency Requirements
A major revision of family medicine residency requirements is one step closer to fruition. Family Medicine has published nearly three dozen articles that will be considered by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education writing group tasked with updating the requirements.
AAFP News : CME
https://www.aafp.org/news/education-professional-development/20210630acgmeupdate.html
COVID-19 Impact on Behavioral Health Care | AAFP Free CME
Learn how to provide behavioral health support your patients, yourself and your care teams need as a result of the impact of COVID-19. This free AAFP CME focuses on depression, anxiety, and ADHD.
CME : All CME Products
https://www.aafp.org/cme/all/covid-19/covid-19-impact-on-behavioral-health-care-on-demand.html
Research Delivers Mixed News on E-cigarettes
New research indicates that although more American youth are aware of the risks and harms associated with e-cigarettes, more also are using these products. A family physician expert comments on these findings.
AAFP News : Patient Care
https://www.aafp.org/news/health-of-the-public/20210624e-cigresearch.html
The GATHER model: six principles for integrating behavioral health -- FPM
Using a behavioral health consultant and focusing on these six areas of emphasis can lead to better outcomes for patients.
Family Practice Management : Quick Tips : FPM Home
https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/blogs/inpractice/entry/gather_bhi_model.html
Task Force: Offer Interventions for Healthy Weight in Pregnancy
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has finalized a recommendation regarding behavioral counseling interventions aimed at promoting healthy weight gain and preventing excess gestational weight gain in pregnancy.
AAFP News : Patient Care
https://www.aafp.org/news/health-of-the-public/20210610pregnancyweight.html
Five tasks to delegate to a clinical pharmacist -- FPM
With increased demands on your time, collaborating with clinical pharmacists is a promising way to expand team-based care. Here's how.
Family Practice Management : Quick Tips : FPM Home
https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/blogs/inpractice/entry/clinical_pharmacist_collaboration.html
How to Integrate Clinical Pharmacists Into Primary Care -- FPM
Jun 1, 2021 - Clinical pharmacists can take team-based care to the next level.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2021/0500/p12.html
Integrating Behavioral Health Into Primary Care -- FPM
Jun 1, 2021 - Integrating behavioral health improves patient outcomes and makes medical practice more satisfying. Here’s one way to do it.
Family Practice Management : From the Editor
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2021/0500/p3.html
Chronic Kidney Disease in Diabetes: Guidelines from KDIGO - Practice Guidelines - ...
Jun 1, 2021 - The Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) group, an international organization dedicated to nephrology clinical practice guidelines, has developed a new guideline for management of diabetes with chronic kidney disease.
American Family Physician : Practice Guidelines
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2021/0601/p698.html
Latest FPM Supplement Examines Innovative Care Delivery
The latest installment in the FPM journal’s supplement series on value-based payment, 'Innovative Care Delivery: Behavioral Health Integration and Home-based Primary Care,' highlights these two alternative care solutions.
AAFP News : Practice and Career
https://www.aafp.org/news/practice-professional-issues/20210527innovcaredeliv.html
AAFP Continues Telehealth Push With Senate Testimony
As senators consider how to solidify telehealth policy flexibilities beyond the pandemic, a family physician advised them on action to ensure that virtual care improves comprehensive, continuous primary care.
AAFP News : Advocacy and Government
https://www.aafp.org/news/government-medicine/20210526telehealthsenate.html
2021 NCCL Tackles Telehealth, Coercive Employment Practices
Family physicians from around the country weighed in on a wide range of issues important to family medicine during the 2021 National Conference of Constituency Leaders, including measures that addressed telehealth, restrictive employment practices and the role of family physicians in ...
AAFP News : Inside the Academy
https://www.aafp.org/news/inside-aafp/20210512nccl-practenhance.html
CME By Topic | AAFP
Search for AAFP CME activities by specific topic.
CME : Browse
https://www.aafp.org/cme/browse/all-topics.tag-well-being.html
CME By Topic | AAFP
Search for AAFP CME activities by specific topic.
CME : Browse
https://www.aafp.org/cme/browse/all-topics.tag-pi.html
AAFP Tools Ease Patient Risk Stratification, Care Planning
Two AAFP resources ― the Risk-Stratified Care Management Scoring Algorithm and the Risk-Stratified Care Management Rubric ― can be useful in stratifying patients into risk levels based on utilization, chronic disease status, behavioral and mental health, and social determinants of health.
AAFP News : Practice and Career
https://www.aafp.org/news/practice-professional-issues/20210505rscmtools.html
COVID-19 lessons learned: one health system’s story -- FPM
The pandemic has taught us the importance of compassionate leadership, communication, and transparency, among other lessons.
Family Practice Management : Quick Tips : FPM Home
https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/blogs/inpractice/entry/covid_lessons_learned.html
FP Embraced Opportunity to Help Develop AAFP TIPS Topic
After using an agenda-setting tool in practice for a time with some success, Margaret Smith, M.D., M.P.H., M.H.S.A., knew she was on to something. But it wasn’t quite right. Then, she was approached by the AAFP National Research Network to participate in development of an AAFP TIPS ...
AAFP News : As We See It: Voices From the AAFP
https://www.aafp.org/news/opinion/20210407smithguested.html
Care Management and the Quadruple Aim -- FPM
Apr 1, 2021 - Care management not only addresses the Triple Aim. It could also help improve our work life.
Family Practice Management : From the Editor
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2021/0300/p5.html
Care Management in the Real World: A Small, Private Practice's Journey -- FPM
Apr 1, 2021 - Through the addition of a care management function, practices can help high-risk patients navigate complex conditions and vulnerable care transitions.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2021/0300/p33.html
Practice Pearls - Mar-Apr 2021 -- FPM
Apr 1, 2021 - Coordinate care of high-risk patients with regular team check-ins | Respond to positive and negative online reviews | This guide helps diabetic patients fast safely
Family Practice Management : Practice Pearls
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2021/0300/p38.html
Register for April 7-9 AAFP Well-being Conference Livestream
The AAFP has a wide range of resources to help family physicians cope with the extra burdens posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, including next month’s Physician Health and Well-being Conference Livestream.
AAFP News : Focus on Physician Well-being
https://www.aafp.org/news/focus-on-physician-well-being/20210324phwbconference.html
FPM Supplement Series Offers Intro to Value-based Payment
A series of FPM journal supplements aims to spell out what the shift from volume- to value-based payment means for family physicians and how they can succeed in a burgeoning VBP environment.
AAFP News : Practice and Career
https://www.aafp.org/news/practice-professional-issues/20210318vbpsupplements.html
Helping Ambivalent Patients Make Healthy Decision About COVID-19 - Lown Right Care: ...
Mar 15, 2021 - A collaboration between AFP and the Lown Institute promotes a vision of delivering health care that is based on the evidence, balanced in its approach, and focused on the patient.
American Family Physician : Lown Right Care: Reducing Overuse and Underuse
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2021/0315/p334.html
Neurology and Behavioral Health CME Self-Study Course | AAFP
Stay current with up-to-date strategies for your patients with neurological and behavioral health conditions with AAFP's Neurology and Behavior Health Self-Study CME course. Earn 26.25 CME credits.
CME : All CME Products
https://www.aafp.org/cme/all/neurology/self-study.html
Uncertainty and Hope: A COVID-19 Update From Rural America
As vaccination rolls out and health care teams continue banding together in videoconferences and other collaboration, Jen Brull, M.D., sees a light at the end of the tunnel.
AAFP News : AAFP Leader Voices | AAFP News Blog : Blogs
https://www.aafp.org/news/blogs/leadervoices/entry/20210225lv-ruralcovid.html
Frailty: Evaluation and Management - American Family Physician
Feb 15, 2021 - Frailty, which is a geriatric syndrome that affects 5% to 17% of older adults, is a state of increased vulnerability across multiple health domains that leads to adverse health outcomes. Frail older adults are at increased risk of falls, disability, hospitalizations, and death. Frailty ...
American Family Physician : Article
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2021/0215/p219.html
AAFP Advises White House on Building Robust Workforce
In a recent letter, the AAFP offered the Biden administration recommendations on strengthening the primary care workforce.
AAFP News : Advocacy and Government
https://www.aafp.org/news/government-medicine/20210205workforce.html
Addressing Cost of Medications
Learn team-based strategies for addressing medication costs with patients in this AAFP interactive PICME online activity.
CME : All CME Products
https://www.aafp.org/cme/all/online/addressing-cost-of-medications.html
It’s Official: AAFP TIPS Is Now Free to Members
One of the Academy’s premier practice enhancement tools ― AAFP TIPS ― is now available to members free of charge. Choose from multiple topics designed to help you tackle a specific aspect of practice.
AAFP News : Practice and Career
https://www.aafp.org/news/practice-professional-issues/20210202aafptipsfree.html
AAFP Sees Harms to Team-based Care in VA Interim Final Rule
The AAFP and other medical societies this month urged the Department of Veterans Affairs to rescind an interim final rule that would decrease the standard of care for U.S. veterans.
AAFP News : Advocacy and Government
https://www.aafp.org/news/government-medicine/20210127vascope.html
Students Optimistic About Future of Family Medicine
After a chaotic 2020, we asked four AAFP student leaders what they are excited about regarding the future of family medicine. Here is what they shared.
AAFP News : CME
https://www.aafp.org/news/education-professional-development/20210127fmfuture.html
FMX
AAFP's Family Medicine Experience conference is the place for family physicians to earn CME, get inspired, connect with peers, and find patient care solutions.
Events : FMX 2021
https://www.aafp.org/events/fmx.html
CME Session Topics
Learn more about workshop tracks at FMX, the AAFP's largest family medicine conference.
Events : FMX 2021
https://www.aafp.org/events/fmx/cme/opportunities/session-topics.html
Documentation Guidelines -- FPM Topic Collection
Jan 13, 2021 - This collection of articles from FPM will help you comply with Medicare's E/M documentation guidelines. This collection of articles from FPM will help you comply with Medicare's E/M documentation guidelines.
Family Practice Management : Topic Collections
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/topicModules/viewTopicModule.htm?topicModuleId=52
AAFP to Develop Value-based Payment Model for Primary Care
Noting that family physicians are foundational to the success of value-based care in United States, the AAFP Board of Directors has approved and funded a special project to empower Academy members to partner with payers to help improve quality and control total costs of care.
AAFP News : Practice and Career
https://www.aafp.org/news/practice-professional-issues/20210107vision2025.html
Don’t Return to Your Silo
MaryAnn Dakkak, M.D., M.S.P.H., writes that COVID-19 has broken down silos in health care, and the collaborative approach should continue after the pandemic ends.
AAFP News : Fresh Perspectives: New Docs in Practice | AAFP News Blog : Blogs
https://www.aafp.org/news/blogs/freshperspectives/entry/20210107fp-silos.html
Anorexia In the Time of COVID
Disordered eating has increased dramatically during the pandemic. Lalita Abhyankar, M.D., M.H.S., offers an example of virtual visits and team-based care that’s making a difference.
AAFP News : Fresh Perspectives: New Docs in Practice | AAFP News Blog : Blogs
https://www.aafp.org/news/blogs/freshperspectives/entry/20201217fp-anorexia.html
Cost Conversations with Patients Webcast
Cost Conversations with Patients: A Team-based Approach Webcast developed in partnership with GoodRx
Family Physician : Practice and Career
https://www.aafp.org/family-physician/practice-and-career/delivery-payment-models/medical-home/patient-caregiver-engagement/cost-conversations-with-patients-webcast.html
Four things your team can do to help you save time and avoid burnout -- FPM
While there are many problems in the health care system causing physicians to burn out, one possible solution is to lean on your care team as much as possible.
Family Practice Management : Quick Tips : FPM Home
https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/blogs/inpractice/entry/prevent_burnout_tips.html
Understanding and Improving Risk Adjustment in Team-Based Care -- FPM
Dec 1, 2020 - Understand the basics of risk adjustment and how it is used in value-based payment (VBP) arrangements. Learn strategies to thrive in VBP and risk-adjustment models to optimize payment while providing high-quality patient care.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2020/1100/p29.html
Point-of-Care Ultrasound: A Practical Guide for Primary Care -- FPM
Dec 1, 2020 - Ultrasound has head-to-toe applications for primary care, and the newest machines are portable and affordable enough to fit into almost any practice.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2020/1100/p33.html
Improving Physician Well-Being Through Organizational Change -- FPM
Dec 1, 2020 - Wellness Wednesdays and yoga breaks aren’t sufficient. Here’s how health care organizations can begin to address physician well-being.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2020/1100/p23.html
What Can a Scribe Do for You? -- FPM
Dec 1, 2020 - Evidence suggests that documentation support provided by scribes can help relieve physician burnout and increase practice productivity.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2020/1100/p17.html
Care Team & Staffing -- FPM Topic Collection
Nov 13, 2020 - This article collection features popular FPM content on the subjects of teamwork and staffing -- from implementing team This article collection features popular FPM content on the subjects of teamwork and staffing -- from implementing team huddles to retaining good employees.
- Creating a Successful Team
- Optimizing Nurses, MAs, and Other Staff
- Hiring, Firing, & Retention
- Effective Meetings
Family Practice Management : Topic Collections
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/topicModules/viewTopicModule.htm?topicModuleId=37
Andrew J.P. Carroll, MD, FAAFP
Director - Andrew J.P. Carroll, MD, FAAFP
About AAFP : Meet our Leadership
https://www.aafp.org/about/meet-our-leadership/board/carroll.html
Board of Directors
Learn more about the AAFP Board of Directors. Members can access minutes and historical information about the AAFP Board.
About AAFP : Meet our Leadership
https://www.aafp.org/about/meet-our-leadership/board.html
Danielle M. Carter, MD
Resident Member - Danielle Carter, MD
About AAFP : Meet our Leadership
https://www.aafp.org/about/meet-our-leadership/board/carter.html
Improving Patient Care
FPM and AAFP resources to help you improve the patient experience and the care delivery process
Family Practice Management : FPM
https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/patients.html
Want to Learn to Lead Change to Achieve Physician Well-being?
The Academy is offering members a free opportunity to learn how to lead change to boost physician well-being in the workplace, thanks to a collaboration between the AAFP and United Health Foundation.
AAFP News : Focus on Physician Well-being
https://www.aafp.org/news/focus-on-physician-well-being/20200928leadingphyschange.html
VTE, Antiplatelet Therapy, Treatment for Veterans, HIV Prophylaxis, Diabetes Mellitus ...
Sep 15, 2020 - Key clinical questions and their evidence-based answers directly from the journal’s content, written by and for family physicians.
American Family Physician : AFP Clinical Answers
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2020/0915/p332.html
NAM Publishes New Research on Opioid Tapering
The National Academy of Medicine recently published a discussion paper on best practices for opioid tapering for patients with chronic non-cancer pain.
AAFP News : Patient Care
https://www.aafp.org/news/health-of-the-public/20200825opioidtapering.html
Update Supervision Rule to Advance Rural Care, AAFP Advises
In a recent letter, the Academy urged CMS to update its cardiac rehabilitation policy to eliminate barriers for rural communities.
AAFP News : Advocacy and Government
https://www.aafp.org/news/government-medicine/20200818cardiacrehab.html
Palliative Care Is More Important Than Ever in Pandemic
Paul Tatum, M.D., M.S.P.H., writes in the FPs on the Front Lines blog that the pandemic has made palliative care even more challenging, but it also presents an important opportunity to serve others.
AAFP News : FPs on the Front Lines: Meeting the Challenge | AAFP News Blog : Blogs
https://www.aafp.org/news/blogs/fpsonfrontlines/entry/20200817fl-palliativecare.html
Striving for Birth Equity: Family Medicine's Role in Overcoming Disparities in Maternal...
Position Paper on Striving for Birth Equity.
About AAFP |AAFP Policies and Recommendations : Policies
https://www.aafp.org/about/policies/all/birth-equity-pos-paper.html
Two Habits of a Healthy Team: Managing Conflict and Practicing Gratitude -- FPM
Aug 1, 2020 - Most teams try to avoid conflict, yet can’t stop focusing on the negative. Healthy teams do the opposite.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2020/0700/p11.html
Ten EHR Strategies for Efficient Documentation -- FPM
Aug 1, 2020 - Applying even one of these 10 strategies can help you reduce frustration, improve productivity, and get home earlier.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2020/0700/p5.html
Increasing Pneumococcal Immunization Rates -- FPM
Aug 1, 2020 - This supplement from the American Academy of Family Physicians shares learnings from state chapter quality improvement initiatives designed to increase adult pneumococcal vaccination rates. The project was supported by a grant from Pfizer Independent Grants for Learning and Change.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2020/0700/p17.html
Art of the Pivot: Redeployment as a Family Physician
Michael Hanak, M.D., writes in the FPs on the Front Lines blog that family medicine played a key role in handling a COVID-19 surge at a Chicago hospital.
AAFP News : FPs on the Front Lines: Meeting the Challenge | AAFP News Blog : Blogs
https://www.aafp.org/news/blogs/fpsonfrontlines/entry/20200723fl-covidsurge.html
Lock In Telehealth Flexibility, Protections, Says AAFP
In two recent letters, the AAFP and other groups asked Congress for permanent telehealth flexibility and laid out principles to ensure ongoing virtual care success.
AAFP News : Advocacy and Government
https://www.aafp.org/news/government-medicine/20200702telehealthletters.html
Video
FPM videos
Family Practice Management : FPM
https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/multimedia/video.html
Study Examines Community-based Lung Cancer Screening
Results of a recent Annals of Family Medicine study indicate that under the right conditions, lung cancer screenings can be performed safely and effectively in the community health setting.
AAFP News : Patient Care
https://www.aafp.org/news/health-of-the-public/20200622lungcascreen.html
FPM Past Issues 2013
FPM 2013 Past Issues
Family Practice Management : FPM
https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/issues/2013.html
FPM Past Issues 2019
FPM 2019 past issues
Family Practice Management : FPM
https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/issues/2019.html
FPM Past Issues 2014
FPM 2014 Past Issues
Family Practice Management : FPM
https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/issues/2014.html
FPM Past Issues 2018
FPM 2018 Past issues
Family Practice Management : FPM
https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/issues/2018.html
AAFP, Other Groups Issue Diabetes Self-management Report
The AAFP has collaborated with several other health care and diabetes organizations to publish a consensus report on the use of diabetes self-management education and support in adults with type 2 diabetes.
AAFP News : Patient Care
https://www.aafp.org/news/health-of-the-public/20200609diabetesconsensusrpt.html
How Do We Talk About the Worst-case Scenario?
Against the backdrop of a pandemic, Allison Edwards, M.D., ponders the best way to broach the subject of end-of-life care with a relatively young patient panel in the Fresh Perspectives blog.
AAFP News : Fresh Perspectives: New Docs in Practice | AAFP News Blog : Blogs
https://www.aafp.org/news/blogs/freshperspectives/entry/20200520fp-endoflife.html
AAFP Online CME
View all AAFP CME online activities.
CME : Browse
https://www.aafp.org/cme/browse/all-formats/online.html
Behavioral Health and Tobacco Cessation
Participate in the Office Champions Tobacco Cessation Behavioral Health project.
Family Physician : Patient Care
https://www.aafp.org/family-physician/patient-care/care-resources/tobacco-and-nicotine/office-champions/behavioral-health-tobacco-cessation.html
Supplements
Supplements for FPM Journal
Family Practice Management : FPM
https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/supplements.html
Member Value
Find out more about the value that the AAFP offers, including access to tools, solutions, and insights that you can implement into your daily work.
Membership : Member Benefits
https://www.aafp.org/membership/benefits/member-value.html
DRAFT Member Value
Find out more about the value that the AAFP offers, including access to tools, solutions, and insights that you can implement into your daily work.
Membership : Member Benefits
https://www.aafp.org/membership/benefits/DRAFT-MV.html
AAFP Delivers Strong Advice to Reduce Maternal Morbidity
The AAFP recently sent a detailed response to a Senate Finance Committee request for information on how to improve the nation's maternal morbidity and mortality rates.
AAFP News : Advocacy and Government
https://www.aafp.org/news/government-medicine/20200420maternalrfi.html
AAFP to CMS: Medicare Rules Must Cut Burden, Empower FPs
In response to a proposed rule for Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D plans, the AAFP advised CMS to focus on changes that make it easier for their patients.
AAFP News : Advocacy and Government
https://www.aafp.org/news/government-medicine/20200416partscdrule.html
Sponsor a BLSO Course
Bring the Basic Life Support in Obstetrics (BLSO) Course to your area to equip emergency personnel and first responders with life-saving maternity care knowledge and skills.
CME : Programs
https://www.aafp.org/cme/programs/blso/sponsor.html
Panel Size Is Just a Number: A Rubric for Opening and Closing Panels -- FPM
Apr 1, 2020 - Deciding whether primary care doctors have the capacity to take on more patients requires accounting for things like productivity, as well as panel size.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2020/0300/p7.html
ALSO Armed Forces
AAFP's Advanced Learning Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) is an approved option for the Department of Defense-mandated training for staff involved in the provision of military maternity care and meets all requirements of the program.
CME : Programs
https://www.aafp.org/cme/programs/also/armed-forces.html
Hold a Course
Bring the very best training opportunity to maternity care providers in your area when you hold an Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) Course. Begin the process here.
CME : Programs
https://www.aafp.org/cme/programs/also/hold.html
Hold an Provider Course
Learn how to offer an Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) Provider Course in your area.
CME : Programs
https://www.aafp.org/cme/programs/also/hold/provider.html
Hold an Instructor Course
Learn how to offer an Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) Instructor Course in your area.
CME : Programs
https://www.aafp.org/cme/programs/also/hold/instructor.html
Sponsor Questions
Sponsors can find answers to frequently asked questions regarding the AAFP's Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO).
CME : Programs
https://www.aafp.org/cme/programs/also/faq/sponsor.html
Course Questions
Find answers to frequently asked questions regarding the AAFP's Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO).
CME : Programs
https://www.aafp.org/cme/programs/also/faq/course.html
AAFP CME on Physician Well-being
View all AAFP Continuing Medical Education on physician well-being and earn CME credit.
CME : AAFP CME by Topic
https://www.aafp.org/cme/topic/physician-well-being.html
AAFP Performance Improvement CME
View all AAFP Continuing Medical Education on performance Improvement and earn CME credit.
CME : AAFP CME by Topic
https://www.aafp.org/cme/topic/performance-improvement.html
Editorial Mission and Policies
The editorial mission and policies of FPM journal
Family Practice Management : FPM
https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/about/mission-policies.html
Get Started
Begin using the Office Champions Adult Immunizations tool
Family Physician : Patient Care
https://www.aafp.org/family-physician/patient-care/prevention-wellness/immunizations-vaccines/office-champtions/get-started.html
Increasing Adult Pneumococcal Immunization Rates Through AAFP State Chapters
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and Pfizer Independent Grants for Learning and Change (IGLC) grants are being utilized to support quality improvement (QI) initiatives that will increase adult pneumococcal vaccination rates through three AAFP state chapters: Kansas, ...
Family Physician : Patient Care
https://www.aafp.org/family-physician/patient-care/prevention-wellness/immunizations-vaccines/office-champtions/increasing-adult-pneumococcal-immunization-rates.html
Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO)
AAFP's Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) is an evidence-based multidisciplinary training program that prepares maternity health care providers to better manage obstetric emergencies.
CME : Programs
https://www.aafp.org/cme/programs/also.html
Communication Tools for FMIGs
Watch, listen, and download resources that will help your family medicine interest group promote family medince at your medical school.
Students and Residents : Medical Students
https://www.aafp.org/students-residents/medical-students/fmig/lead-fmig/fmig-communication-tools.html
Spring 2019
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Family Physician : Patient Care
https://www.aafp.org/family-physician/patient-care/nrn/news/spring2019.html
Treatment and Management
The primary goal of treatment is to minimize the impact of ADHD symptoms on patient function while maximizing the patient’s ability to compensate or cope with any remaining difficulties. Not all symptoms can be resolved with treatment; it is important to manage expectations of treatment...
Family Physician : Patient Care
https://www.aafp.org/family-physician/patient-care/prevention-wellness/emotional-wellbeing/adhd-toolkit/treatment-and-management.html
Team documentation: who does what during the visit? -- FPM
Team documentation can boost physician efficiency, but which tasks should you delegate and which tasks should you keep?
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https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/blogs/inpractice/entry/team_documentation_process.html
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