Medical education curricula increasingly are incorporating courses on cultural competency
and skills development in working with ethnically diverse patient populations as well as …

Purpose To examine the opinions of family medicine residency program directors concerning
the potential impact of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) resident duty hour recommendations …

Here’s what is really amazing: These things naturally occur when there is an adequate
workforce of family physicians. If you want an illustration, ask Leiyu Shi of the Johns Hopkins …

The NIPDD 9-month fellowship provides instruction, education, and formative experiences
designed for family medicine physician educators to enhance and develop the knowledge, …

• Every residency program must focus on appropriate resident supervision to reduce inevitable
errors of resident training.• Any efforts to reform duty hours should not further threaten the …

The Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry Programs provide grants to public or nonprofit private
hospitals, schools of medicine, osteopathic medicine, dentistry, physician assistants and …

The organizational symbol of AFMRD has at its center the statement,“Leadership in
Education”. An equally suitable statement for the center of the symbol would be,“Quality in …

The impact of the hospitalist movement upon family medicine training is in the forefront of
conversation throughout family medicine and among other disciplines. The ACGME Review …

A major turning point came through a Strategic Planning exercise in 1999. This process
galvanized ADFM’s move to become a more organized and productive organization …

In patients with chronic low back pain, sensory training is no more effective than control
therapy for pain relief (SOR: B, meta-analysis of mostly small randomized controlled trials [RCTs])…