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Does staffing impact health and work conditions of staff in long-term care homes?: a scoping review Open
Background Long-Term Care (LTC) homes are highly regulated and task oriented, with demanding work and insufficient resources. Chronic underfunding of the sector, coupled with increased complexity of care, has deteriorated working condition…
0027 Extreme risk protection orders: understanding the role of health professionals Open
Statement of purpose Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPO) allow a petitioner to file for a civil order to temporarily reduce access to firearms among individuals ('respondents') at extreme risk of harming themselves, others, or both. Alth…
View article: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Silver Linings for Patient-Centered Care
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Silver Linings for Patient-Centered Care Open
Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, the Association of Departments of Family Medicine concluded work in partnership with the Family Medicine for America's Health (FMAHealth) initiative regarding the addition of a public member to its…
WHAT ADFM LEARNED FROM BRINGING A PUBLIC MEMBER ONTO ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Open
The Association of Departments of Family Medicine’s (ADFM’s) overall mission is to “support academic departments of family medicine to lead and achieve their full potential in care, education, scholarship, and advocacy to promote health an…
Leadership Pathways in Academic Family Medicine: Focus on Underrepresented Minorities and Women Open
Background and Objectives: Leadership positions in academic medicine lack racial and gender diversity. In 2016, the Council of Academic Family Medicine (CAFM) established a Leadership Development Task Force to specifically address the lack…
ADFM: FROM PAPER CLIPS TO PERFORMANCE—THE LAST 15 YEARS Open
Patterns of organizational development appear more clearly in retrospect, as do their lessons learned. The Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM) has evolved over more than 40 years in distinct phases as previously described …
ADFM LEADS FELLOWSHIP: LEADERSHIP EDUCATION FOR ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SUCCESS Open
For nearly a decade, ADFM has run a successful yearlong leadership development fellowship geared toward those interested in becoming the chair of a department of family medicine. Each year of the program, we trained 4 to 8 fellows; 42 in t…
REBUILDING AFTER THE FLOOD: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE 2019 ADFM WINTER MEETING Open
In February, the Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM) hosted another successful annual conference, this year in Houston, Texas. The theme of the meeting, “Rebuilding After the Flood: Designing Our Departments’ Move Toward V…
WHAT’S IN A NAME? DEPARTMENTS OF FAMILY MEDICINE AND … Open
Every department that is a member of the Association of Departments of Family Medicine includes the term “family medicine” in its title. Fewer than one-half our member departments, however, only have family medicine in their titles. Many t…
View article: ADVANCING DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, AND HEALTH EQUITY TO THE NEXT LEVEL
ADVANCING DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, AND HEALTH EQUITY TO THE NEXT LEVEL Open
The Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM), as part of its mission, has made diversity, inclusion, and health equity priorities. This mission is being carried out with adherence to the core values that are crucial to our memb…
ALTERNATIVE PAYMENT MODELS IN DEPARTMENTS OF FAMILY MEDICINE: OUR JOURNEY TOWARD THE QUADRUPLE AIM Open
A combination of escalating costs of health care and an aging population with increased longevity and complexity is changing the environment of the patient office visit and how physicians are reimbursed for their services. In 2008, Berwick…
“THE GME INITIATIVE” AND GME IN STATES Open
Family medicine struggles to fund graduate medical education (GME) due to antiquated Medicare rules that fund hospitals for GME. Medicare GME funding inadequately covers family medicine residencies, is inequitable with variation across the…
THE IMPERATIVE FOR A COLLECTIVE IMPACT APPROACH AMONG FAMILY MEDICINE ORGANIZATIONS Open
It is increasingly apparent that many of the most pressing problems of our time are too formidable, complex, and resistant to change to be solved by individuals and individual organizations acting alone. In family medicine, we have our sha…
WHERE WE’VE BEEN & WHERE WE WANT TO GO: ADFM’S 40TH BIRTHDAY MEETING Open
ADFM celebrated its 40th “Birthday” at our annual Winter meeting in Washington, DC with champagne, cake, singing and dancing, the return of 20 former members to help us reminisce, and reflection on where we have been and where we should be…
ADFM AND FMAHEALTH BOARDS’ ENGAGEMENT AROUND A PUBLIC MEMBER PILOT STUDY Open
Family Medicine for America’s Health (FMAHealth. org) is a collaborative effort of 8 national family medicine organizations including the Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM). FMAHealth has recommended that each sponsoring …
A SHARED AIM FOR STUDENT CHOICE OF FAMILY MEDICINE: AN UPDATE FROM ADFM AND FAMILY MEDICINE FOR AMERICA’S HEALTH Open
Recently, through the Family Medicine for America’s Health (FMAHealth) Workforce team, 8 family medicine organizations endorsed a “shared aim” to: increase the percentage of US senior allopathic and osteopathic medical students choosing fa…
A PHYSICIAN SCIENTIST PATHWAY IN FAMILY MEDICINE RESIDENCY TRAINING PROGRAMS Open
In the specialty of family medicine, a consensus is emerging nationally on the need for a greater focus on increasing research capacity to match a well-established culture of clinical and educational excellence.[1][1]–[4][2] However, incre…
Collaboration Between ACGME and AOA Programs to Enhance Success in the Single Accreditation System: A Process Paper Open
Beginning in 2020, all residency programs will be accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Programs accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) that do not achieve ACGME pre-accreditation…
ADFM IS TURNING 40! Open
The Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM) is turning 40 next year! Founded in April 1978 with Paul Young, MD, as the first ADFM President, ADFM’s founding vision was to organize departments of family medicine to lead transfo…
ONE YEAR OF ADFM’S JOY IN PRACTICE INITIATIVE Open
As health care transformation accelerates in the United States, the problem of physician burnout has worsened and is now receiving national attention. In family medicine, wellness, burnout, and resilience among our care teams were topics o…
FINDING AND MAINTAINING THE JOY IN WHAT WE DO: THE 2017 ANNUAL ADFM WINTER MEETING Open
“Joy and Effectiveness in the Work of Family Medicine: Now and in The Future” was chosen as the 2017 ADFM Winter Meeting theme to encourage department Chairs and Administrators to reflect on the important and meaningful work across the con…
PUTTING THE FOUR PILLARS FOR PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN WORKFORCE INTO PRACTICE LOCALLY Open
The United States faces a shortage of 25,000 primary care physicians (PCPs) by 2025.[1][1] This report is a guide for departments of family medicine for developing local strategies () to increase the PCP workforce, framed around the
THE LAST 5 YEARS OF THE MU/ADFM NEW CHAIRS WORKSHOP Open
Leaders in academic medicine are confronted with constant change. Chairs in family medicine, often instrumental during this dynamic time, require training to be successful leaders. First started in the 1990s, there was a hiatus in the Univ…
THE BUILDING RESEARCH CAPACITY (BRC) INITIATIVE: TO BE LAUNCHED AT THE 2016 ANNUAL NAPCRG MEETING Open
ADFM and NAPCRG approved the recommendations of a Joint ADFM-NAPCRG Task Force in November 2015. That Task Force recommended creation of a steering committee to implement a bi-national research capacity building initiative for Departments …
STEPPING THROUGH: THE TRANSITION FROM DEPARTMENT CHAIR Open
As the average tenure of department chairs grows shorter and the opportunities after being a chair expand, the question of life after being a department chair becomes more common. Family medicine departments are beginning to see the second…
THOUGHTS AND THEMES FROM THE 2016 ADFM WINTER MEETING Open
Are we Luddites? How can we “recalibrate”? What is a more pressing need in our Departments than producing outstanding family doctors? How can we bring joy back to clinical practice? These questions are a few among many that stimulated our …
BUILDING RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP CAPACITY IN DEPARTMENTS OF FAMILY MEDICINE: A NEW JOINT ADFM-NAPCRG INITIATIVE Open
Transformative growth in the capacity of family medicine and primary care research and scholarship in the United States and Canada is crucial.[1][1] Far greater capacity is needed to: generate the necessary knowledge; design, evaluate, and…