Primary Care Physicians
Hooked on PC with Gail Guerrero-Tucker, MD, MPH, FAAFP, DABFM
Medicine was an interesting thought as I was growing up with no medical people in my family.
Dementia diagnosis rates 4% lower for Medicare Advantage enrollees
PHILADELPHIA — An analysis of more than 15 million Americans enrolled in Medicare found that those enrolled in the Medicare Advantage plan had a 4% lower dementia diagnosis rate than those in traditional Medicare, according to a presenter.
Coordinated Management
‘Physicians don’t feel comfortable’ treating addiction due to poor training, lack of resources
Most physicians who are reluctant to treat addiction cited poor training and other institutional factors as major reasons for their hesitancy, a systematic review in JAMA Network Open showed.
ACR launches free website with rheumatology guidance for primary care physicians
The American College of Rheumatology has launched a free online resource to help primary care physicians identify and treat rheumatic conditions.
Q&A: Selecting family medicine residency candidates based on resiliency improves diversity
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.
VIDEO: Expert discusses collaboration between obesity medicine physicians, PCPs
In this video, Katherine Saunders, MD, DABOM, emphasizes the need for obesity medicine physicians and primary care physicians to work together on a patient's treatment.
Q&A: What PCPs need to know about thyroid eye disease
Primary care providers can play an important role in the management of an often-overlooked disorder, thyroid eye disease, according to an expert.
VIDEO: ‘We need to do better’ with polymyalgia rheumatica awareness
In this video, Sebastian E. Sattui, MD, MS, discusses the efforts needed to increase awareness of polymyalgia rheumatica.
EHR use among primary care physicians is on the rise
Primary care physicians’ time spent on electronic health records substantially increased between 2019 and 2023, according to a study published in the Annals of Family Medicine.