Primary Care

New survey results show that primary care clinicians have an increasingly active role in COVID-19 vaccination efforts, but they are simultaneously grappling with an “uncertain” future, according to the Primary Care Collaborative.

Partnerships between rheumatologists and specially trained advanced practice providers in primary care can reduce diagnostic delay and shorten wait times in axial spondyloarthritis, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

In the VITAL trial, marine omega-3 fatty acids did not prevent stroke, but they did reduce the risk for myocardial infarction compared with an olive oil placebo. A review of the data was the top story in cardiology last week.

Women and Black individuals are more likely to be diagnosed with HF in an acute care setting than a primary care setting compared men and white patients, respectively, according to data published in Circulation: Heart Failure.

There is a “large variability” in the use of physical therapy for systemic sclerosis, and patients who do receive it are rarely treated for hand or oral dysfunction, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

I remember in medical school really enjoying procedures and thinking I wanted to be a general surgeon. So much so, I did a research year in a surgery lab.

I was a philosophy major in college. I really embraced the concept of holism, which is the idea that parts of the whole are intimately interconnected.

Starting medical school, I was going to pursue cardiology.

I never wanted to be a family physician. I wanted to be a surgeon.

I was uninterested in medicine until college and had little knowledge of different specialties.