A Bonus, Not a Burden: How Medical Students Can Add Value to Your Practice -- FPM
Oct 1, 2021 - When done well, precepting is a win-win-win for physicians, medical students, and patients.
Family Practice Management : Opinion
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2021/0900/oa1.html
Suggested Topics by Focus Area | AAFP National Conference
View suggested topics by focus area for the 2022 National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students, July 28-30, 2022.
Events : National Conference
https://www.aafp.org/events/national-conference/education/proposals/suggested-topics.html
AAFP Names 2021–2022 Board of Directors
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AAFP News : Media Center
https://www.aafp.org/news/media-center/releases/aafp-names-2021-2022-board-of-directors.html
AAFP Voices Support for Bill to Boost Collaborative Care
The Academy and 17 other medical and health care groups this month endorsed legislation supporting the collaborative care model.
AAFP News : Advocacy and Government
https://www.aafp.org/news/government-medicine/20210921cocm.html
AAFP Membership: What's It Worth?
Learn about the value that AAFP membership offers, including access to tools, solutions, and free CME activities.
Membership : Member Benefits
https://www.aafp.org/membership/benefits/member-value.html
Hold an ALSO Course | AAFP
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
Sponsor a BLSO Course | AAFP
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
Hold a Provider Course | AAFP ALSO
Learn how to offer an Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) Provider Course in your community.
CME : Programs
https://www.aafp.org/cme/programs/also/hold/provider.html
Hold an Instructor Course | AAFP ALSO
Learn how to offer an Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) Instructor Course in your community.
CME : Programs
https://www.aafp.org/cme/programs/also/hold/instructor.html
Diabetes-Related Foot Infections: Diagnosis and Treatment - American Family Physician
Aug 1, 2021 - Diabetes-related foot infections occur in approximately 40% of diabetes-related foot ulcers and cause significant morbidity. Clinicians should consider patient risk factors (e.g., presence of foot ulcers greater than 2 cm, uncontrolled diabetes mellitus, poor vascular perfusion, ...
American Family Physician : Article
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2021/1000/p386.html
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Using a behavioral health consultant and focusing on these six areas of emphasis can lead to better outcomes for patients.
Family Practice Management : FPM
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
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 : FPM
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.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
The pandemic has taught us the importance of compassionate leadership, communication, and transparency, among other lessons.
Family Practice Management : FPM
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 Decisions 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 : Blogs
https://www.aafp.org/news/blogs/leadervoices/entry/20210225lv-ruralcovid.html
HOSA Family Medicine Test
Tools for high school students taking the family medicine career explorer exam created by the AAFP and HOSA.
Students and Residents : Pre-med and Medical Students Educators
https://www.aafp.org/students-residents/premed-medical-students-educators/advising-pre-med-students/hosa-career-knowledge-test.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