2014: Year of the Family Physician (Part XXII)
May01

2014: Year of the Family Physician (Part XXII)

David Tran, Co-Vice Chair of the CAFP Student Council, recently blogged about his cognitive awakening regarding the counter-culture roots of #FMRevolution. He paid homage to Dr. G. Gayle Stevens’ sage insight and guiding vision of family medicine as a movement rather than a discipline. In essence, our culture is counter-culture.  That premise requires us to examine prevailing culture. We prioritize what we crave. We gravitate to the...

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2014: Year of the Family Physician (Part XXI)
Apr07

2014: Year of the Family Physician (Part XXI)

The finale of “How I Met Your Mother” achieved the highest viewing audience in its nine year run.  Fans of the television series stormed social media to express their disapproval or sad reluctant acceptance of its ending.  #HIMYMFinale was a top trending hashtag immediately after the episode concluded.  People had invested nearly a decade of their lives watching a father tell his children how he met their mother.  They saw much of...

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2014: Year of the Family Physician (Part XX)
Apr02

2014: Year of the Family Physician (Part XX)

WOW!  1,146 US medical school graduates chose family medicine in the 2014 residency match! A total of 3,000 family medicine residency positions were filled. This represents a continuing upward trend in the past five years regarding medical student interest in family medicine. The data are encouraging, but what inspired me was the number of future colleagues who posted pictures of their match notification letter in one hand and their...

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2014: Year of the Family Physician (Part XIX)
Feb05

2014: Year of the Family Physician (Part XIX)

Once-in-a-lifetime opportunities are rarely once in a lifetime.  And the events we initially thought were the most important or dire tend to blend into the background as we experience more of life.  On February 4th, Kelly Conniff, Special Projects Editor at Time Magazine, tweeted “I need your favorite Twitter accounts, please.”  I will sidestep educing her motive for now and focus on this Tweet’s potential as a nidus for shaping...

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2014: Year of the Family Physician (Part XVIII)

A few years back, I asked a group of UC Davis family medicine residents to record their rendition of “Turn! Turn! Turn!” the profound classic written by Pete Seegar and popularized by The Byrds.  On the track is CAFP’s Chair of the Legislative Affairs Committee, Ashby Wolfe, who sang and played guitar.  She was accompanied by Shomir Banerjee, Sonia Liu, Joby Morrow, and Kristin Setliff.  I have come to consider “Turn! Turn! Turn!” as...

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