Students Court Family Medicine at 'Speed Date Our Specialty' Events
It's not easy to grab the attention of medical students, but a program created by the family medicine interest group (FMIG) at Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minn. -- and supported by the Minnesota...
View ArticleStrength of Oklahoma AFP Rooted in Student Programming
Each September, first-year students at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in Oklahoma City are invited to a welcome luncheon organized by the school's Family and Community Medicine Interest...
View ArticleProject ECHO Trains, Empowers New Mexico FPs to Provide Subspecialty Care
Thanks to an innovative program that links subspecialists with primary care professionals, a growing number of New Mexico patients are receiving subspecialty care directly from their family physicians.
View ArticleUtah AFP Fights for Regulation of E-cigarettes
Given active promotion of e-cigarettes in Utah combined with growing use of the products among teenagers, the Utah AFP is aggressively lobbying to ensure e-cigarettes are regulated by the state.
View ArticleSmaller Chapters Face Unique Challenges
Despite facing unique challenges with often limited resources, some of the AAFP's smaller chapters find creative ways to spread family medicine's message of the importance of prevention and patient...
View ArticleWisconsin AFP Leads Effort to Bolster State's Primary Care Workforce
Before 2012, the Wisconsin AFP had focused on helping members transform their practices into patient-centered medical homes and then on payment reform. That focus shifted in 2012, when the chapter...
View ArticleFor Massachusetts AFP, Advocacy Is Major Focus
The Massachusetts AFP takes advocacy seriously, committing significant amounts of time and resources to ensuring family medicine?s voice is heard by federal and state lawmakers.
View ArticleSouth Dakota AFP Focuses on Student Pipeline Programs
The South Dakota AFP works closely with the Department of Family Medicine at the University of South Dakota's Sanford School of Medicine in Sioux Falls -- the state's only medical school -- to support...
View ArticleDelaware AFP Wholeheartedly Supports State's Million Hearts Initiative
Just as it is in the rest of the United States, heart disease is the leading cause of death in Delaware, according the latest CDC mortality statistics. But in 2012, when current Delaware AFP (DAFP)...
View ArticleMichigan AFP Joins Grassroots Efforts to Expand Medicaid
If you asked one Michigan family physician how she spent her summer vacation last year, she would tell you she worked diligently toward expanding Medicaid for state residents. Tina Tanner, M.D.,...
View ArticleTennessee AFP Taps Into Student, Resident Energy
Those who haven't visited the website of the Tennessee AFP recently might notice the addition of the Facebook icon now prominently displayed on the site's home page along with a request to "Like us on...
View ArticleWest Virginia AFP Doc for a Day Program Helps Lawmakers, FPs
The winter of 1989 was tough on West Virginia legislators who had gathered at the state capital in Charleston for their regular session. Flu, flu-like symptoms, colds and coughs permeated the capital,...
View ArticleNebraska FPs Betting on Success With Their Own ACO
Can a small, mostly rural, family medicine-based accountable care organization provide high-quality, coordinated care for its Medicare patients while also saving Medicare money? Nine independent family...
View ArticleMontana AFP Nurtures Rural Residency Program
What do family physicians do when the 1 million plus citizens of their state -- celebrated for its wide open spaces -- are starved for the kind of comprehensive health care that only family physicians...
View ArticleMaine Program Helps FPs Serve Mental Health Needs
Many largely rural states have difficulty ensuring mental health services are available for all their citizens, leaving family physicians in these states to step in to fill the mental health care gap...
View ArticleMaryland FPs Lead Health Care Efforts, Innovations
Family physicians in Maryland practice and work in various settings and capacities, using their skills and expertise to deliver and improve health care for thousands of patients throughout the state....
View ArticleCommunication Efforts Pay Off in Show-Me State
When it comes to cultivating and nurturing its family physician members, the Missouri AFP holds the magic key -- communication -- a term defined by Merriam-Webster as an act of transmitting a verbal or...
View ArticleFlorida AFP Diabetes Program Uses Registry, Team Approach to Enhance Care
According to the American Diabetes Association, 25.8 million people in the United States -- 8.3 percent of the population -- have diabetes, with the overall cost of diagnosed disease estimated at $245...
View ArticleNew Hampshire AFP Encourages Interest in Family Medicine
Until last year, when she spent a month practicing obstetrics in a rural clinic in Uganda, Mary Moreno, M.D., a family medicine resident at the New Hampshire Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency Program...
View ArticleIdaho Program Lures Many to Rural Medicine
A program's longevity often is an indication of its success. Such is the case with the 24-four-year run of the Idaho Rural/Underserved Opportunities Program (R/UOP), which represents a successful...
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