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Fiscal Cliff, Grand Bargain, and Kick the Can Down the Road
What do these have in common? They are the new post-election lexicon of legislators and lobbyists, pundits and commentators. What do the election results mean for the lame duck session of Congress that...
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Stalemate or Innovate: What Will the Future of Federal Legislation Bring?
This past session of Congress was frustrating. Seemingly no movement was made on spending levels for health programs, GME reform, and on broader national issues such as gun control or immigration...
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Growing the Impact of Family Medicine Through Advocacy
Since medical school, I have seen the unrivaled value family physicians provide to the patients they see. I was unaware—until this month—of the impact family physicians can have beyond their clinic...
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SGR Repeal and Teaching Health Center GME Extension: What Does it Mean for You?
The long-sought-after repeal of the failed Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula has finally happened. Earlier this week the Senate passed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (HR...
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Leading the Way
As a medical educator, I often ponder the uncomfortable paradox of training medical students to become “ideal” physicians, only to send them out into a far less than ideal health care system upon...
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Med School Gap Year: One Student’s Journey Advocating for Health Care
While my medical school classmates were deep in their sub-I’s, I took a year off and spent my days being chased off parking lots by grocery store managers. I often wondered what I was doing and how did...
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STFM Member Bikes Across the Country, Recording Small Town Health Care Access...
Paul Gordon, MD, MPH recently started his two-month bicycle tour from the Washington, DC to Seattle, stopping along the way to learn what people think of the Affordable Care Act. On his journey,...
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Our Nation’s Primary Care Academic Infrastructure: What Is Needed to Protect...
When one thinks of the repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the major tax and coverage provisions required by insurance come to mind. Efforts by the new Trump Administration and Congress to...
View ArticleMoving Away From Data Points and Back to the Patient Story
This past spring, I consciously moved away from learning clinical skills and spent time at two conferences: the National Medical Legal Partnership Conference, and the Family Medicine Advocacy Summit....
View ArticleSTFM’s Top 10 Ways to Win (Policy) Friends and Influence (Government) People
by Joseph W. Gravel, Jr, MD and Hope Wittenberg, MA Wikipedia defines advocacy as “an activity by an individual or group which aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social systems...
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The Family Medicine Advocacy Summit 2018 was super dope. On May 21, I joined family medicine physicians and teachers from all over the nation to converge on the District of Columbia to advocate for...
View ArticlePhysician, Scientist, Educator…Advocate?
As both physician and educator working primarily with underserved patients, I have seen time and again how the idealism in caring for patients can fall short of reality when working in our current...
View ArticlePhysician Coaching, An Evidence-based Tool for Resident Wellness
Tonya L. Caylor, MD, FAAFP tlcaylor@mac.com Clinical Associate Faculty, On-call Faculty for Alaska Family Medicine Residency Joy in Family Medicine Coaching Services® Physician coaching, a key tool for...
View ArticleDouble Feature: A Spotlight on Global Health Education
Note from the Editor: The December blog contains two important submissions on global family medicine and the factors that contribute to inequities in the field including but not limited to funding,...
View ArticleImproving the Clerkship Learning Environment for Introverts
There are strengths and weaknesses associated with introverted traits and with extroverted traits. Extroverts thrive in social situations, can rapidly form relationships with team members, and are...
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