2011 AAFP NCFMR, #FMRevolution and Origin Stories
Greetings, fellow Family Medicine Revolutionaries! The 2011 American Academy of Family Physicians’ National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students begins today in Kansas City, MO. Many of you have flown in from every nook and cranny of our vast nation (and beyond) to explore all that Family Medicine has to offer you: not only the future of our great specialty, the future of American medicine. As a soon-to-be...
Leadership From the NCSC
It has been said that the mere act of showing up is an act of leadership. That would be true for the vast majority of family docs who remain present for their patients and communities. However, I believe that the time is upon us for a paradigm shift. Merely showing up is not enough. I have been trying to wrap my mind around how family medicine and civic engagement, natural fits for one another when you think about it, sometimes mix...
#FMRevolution = Family Medicine Revolution
Ah, change. Isn’t it lovely? With the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) last year, much change has been afoot and most of it has been rapid and frantic change. Many stakeholders, from physicians to health plans and from patients to employers, are probably not entirely comfortable with the ground beneath them moving and so quickly (though I would argue that here in California, we’re...