Family Medicine

I started thinking about a career in medicine in high school.

I entered medical school thinking I was going to be a pediatrician.

New American Academy of Family Physicians President Jennifer L. Brull, MD, FAAFP, said she is committed to helping create a more stable system focused on physician well-being during her tenure.

After college, I thought I might work for Médecins Sans Frontières one day, so I grew my hair long and moved to rural post-war El Salvador, where I worked for a non-governmental organization supporting local Salvadoran physicians in the field. I was in my early twenties, trained as a wilderness emergency medical technician, and armed with hope. My job was to do whatever needed to be done, including take vital signs, dispense medications, scrub into surgeries, facilitate a potable water project and teach first aid.

Medicine was an interesting thought as I was growing up with no medical people in my family.

One of the greatest milestones in a family physician’s career is the first time a patient asks you to be their primary care physician.

An intervention can increase the racial and ethnic diversity of applicants in family medicine residency programs without using race or ethnicity as a factor, according to experts.

Growing up on a farm, I was planning on becoming a veterinarian.

From childhood, I always knew I would go into medicine. My dad was a surgeon and my mom was a nurse. Which specialty, I would not know until I completed medical school and decided I wanted to “save the world” on a global scale. So, I had to research and find out which specialty would allow me to see any patient, anywhere, anytime. Family Medicine was it.

ChatGPT produced high-quality and accurate summaries of medical abstracts but struggled to classify the relevance of abstracts to medical specialties, a study published in the Annals of Family Medicine showed.