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Improving treatment of opioid use disorder in pregnancy: first define the workforce

As Hollander et al1 report, the maternity care workforce in the United States has not adapted to care adequately for […]

PROGRESS ON A PILOT PROGRAM OF RESEARCH CAREER DEVELOPMENT DURING RESIDENCY

In late November 2017, the ADFM Research Development Committee reported on a proposal made to and approved by the American […]

New Allopathic Medical Schools and Family Physicians

In 2018 the 8 national family medicine organizations set a goal of having 25% of graduating US medical students choose […]

PURSUING PRACTICAL PROFESSIONALISM: FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION

Still early in a long game of delivery system transformation, the United States is already experiencing some of the negative […]

New Allopathic Medical Schools Train Fewer Family Physicians Than Older Ones.

The first significant expansion of allopathic medical schools since the 1970s was anticipated to produce more physicians capable of addressing […]

“That Was Pretty Powerful”: a Qualitative Study of What Physicians Learn When Preparing for Their Maintenance-of-Certification Exams

BACKGROUND: A key component of Maintenance of Certification (MOC) for family and internal medicine physicians is the requirement to pass […]

Primary care financing: a systematic assessment of research priorities in low- and middle-income countries

Introduction Financing of primary healthcare (PHC) is the key to the provision of equitable universal care. We aimed to identify […]

Facilitating Practice Transformation in Frontline Health Care

This supplement to the Annals of Family Medicine brings together early learning from multiple examples of health extension and practice […]

Improving Quality Improvement

In February 2019, the Vision Committee recommended that the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) chart a new course for […]

Utilizing PHATE: A Population Health–Mapping Tool to Identify Areas of Food Insecurity

Family physicians have long recognized the importance of the social determinants of health, like adequate access to food, on a […]