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Mar. 20, 2025This week, the Academy’s Board chair, president and president-elect sat down with lawmakers and congressional staff to lay out the AAFP’s top priorities.
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Mar. 20, 2025This week, the Academy’s Board chair, president and president-elect sat down with lawmakers and congressional staff to lay out the AAFP’s top priorities.
Mar. 18, 2025The AAFP is following up on a new executive order affecting the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and CMMI’s announcement that it’s terminating two primary care models.
Mar. 17, 2025Mikala Cessac was uncertain about her specialty until she noticed a trend. Wherever she went to do work that was important to her, whether in a free clinic or her state Capitol, family physicians also were there taking action to make a difference for patients. She shares her story in this Match Week post.
Mar. 13, 2025Conversations with members affirm that the AAFP must be a strong voice for the essential values that family physicians share, EVP and CEO Shawn Martin says in this video blog.
Mar. 06, 2025AAFP President Jen Brull, M.D., FAAFP, introduces Be Their First, a major new effort that the Board of Directors undertook last summer to spark the joy of family medicine in medical students’ hearts and keep it alive through Match.
Feb. 20, 2025Family physicians depend on HHS for guidance, research and support. The AAFP is telling policymakers that gutting the agency is likely to hurt public health.
Feb. 20, 2025AAFP President-elect Sarah Nosal, M.D., FAAFP, testified in a Senate committee to share stories about vulnerable patients who depend on Medicaid and related programs.
Feb. 19, 2025AAFP Director Shannon Dowler, M.D., C.P.E., FAAFP, the former CMO of North Carolina Medicaid, reflects on lessons learned during the first year of Medicaid expansion in her state and the potential that expansion could hold for the 10 states that have not adopted it.
