Greetings, colleagues, and we hope that you, your practices, and your family are well. It is now almost 15 months since COVID-19 reached our shores. I believe the pandemic will have a lasting effect on family medicine and, with the push of a new civil rights movement, society. ABFM has been busy in response—most immediately, working with all of you to delay continuing certification requirements and support practice change. We have also worked hard to increase the value of certification, promote residency transformation, and encourage policy change to support family physicians and their practice.

We have a number of positive updates since the last Phoenix.  Rather than sending a full summer edition, however, I wanted to use this message to describe these briefly and provide links for you to seek additional information, as desired.

We are cautiously optimistic about the course of the pandemic. Be well, and keep in touch.

Warren Newton, MD, MPH
President and CEO