2014: Year of the Family Physician Photos
CAFP has launched their 2014: Year of the Family Physician campaign and is looking for your participation! We’ve started our year campaign with our #2014YearFP photo campaign to help raise awareness of the family medicine specialty and we’re looking for your participation. Family medicine encompasses all ages, sexes, each organ system and every disease entity; we pay special attention to our patients’ lives within the context and the...
The Resurrection of the Family Physician
After rotating through so many specialties and now halfway done with residency, I realize even more the value of the generalist physician. This may seem easy for me to say as a hopeful family doctor, but every time I rotate through a specialist office (currently on surgery), my belief only grows. No one understands the whole patient or sees the big picture better. The value of broad-based training is hard to measure in some way, which...
Is There an Underlying Specialty-Bias in Medical Schools?
Cross posted from Future of Family Medicine A multitude of factors drive students towards, or away from, the path of family medicine. Much has been made recently of reimbursement schemes that incentivize specialty practice. Certainly, medical students strapped with debt are showing preference to more lucrative fields for residency. But is there more to this choice beyond the surface of financial incentive? What about the very...