Family Physicians to Meet With Members of Illinois General Assembly about...

U.S. Newswire;  February 24, 2004 ;     350 words ......Advisory: WHAT: The Illinois Academy of Family Physicians (IAFP) annual legislative forum...Waterloo. WHEN: Wednesday, March 3. Family Physicians will be at the Capitol from 9 a.m...on health care issues important to family physicians and their patients. WHERE: The Statehouse...

More pediatricians than family physicians embrace RotaTeq.(Infectious...

Pediatric News;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......to a much greater extent than have family physicians, Shannon Stokley said at the winter...members of the American Academy of Family Physicians. After exclusion of those who don...comprised 359 pediatricians and 264 family physicians. Responders did not differ from nonresponders...

Where Family Physicians Dare.

American Family Physician;  May 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Primary Care demonstrate convincingly family physicians' unique role in promoting access to health...physicians would suffer if there were no family physicians. Without family physicians, 1,332 new counties would drop below...

FPs lag pediatricians in use of rotavirus vaccine.(News)(family...

Family Practice News;  March 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ...ATLANTA -- Family physicians have not embraced the current...of the American Academy of Family Physicians and 2,500 members of the American...comprised 359 pediatricians and 264 family physicians. Responders did not differ...

Counseling and psychotherapy skills training for family...

Families, Systems & Health;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...In many healthcare systems, family physicians are the primary source of direct...health problems in the community, yet family physicians are not often routinely or adequately...interactive, intensive training of family physicians in the skills of office-based counseling...

Family Physicians to Meet with Members of Illinois General Assembly About...

U.S. Newswire;  February 22, 2005 ;     351 words ......Advisory: WHAT: The Illinois Academy of Family Physicians (IAFP) annual legislative forum...Woodridge. WHEN: Wednesday, March 2. Family Physicians will be at the Capitol from 9 a.m...Building in Springfield, Ill. WHY: Family Physicians are gathering in Springfield for...

Family physicians' interests in special features of electronic publication

Journal of the Medical Library Association;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......many of the medical journals read by family physicians now have an electronic version, the...survey to determine the interest of family physicians in specific features of electronic...and Participants: We surveyed 175 family physicians randomly selected from the American...

Quality and cost of care by family physicians vs. hospitalists.(Tips from...

American Family Physician;  July 15, 2008 ;     514 words ......convenience and efficiency, allowing family physicians to focus on outpatient productivity...hospitalists, general internists, and family physicians in a variety of practice settings...readmission rates in patients cared for by family physicians, general internists, and ...

How Family Physicians Get Paid.(Statistical Data Included)

Family Practice News;  August 1, 2000 ;     53 words ...How Family Physicians Get Paid [*] Family Physicians All Physicians Private Insurance 43.5% 42.8% Medicare...more than 2,200 physicians, including more than 300 family physicians, in 1998. Source: American Medical Association

America's Family Physicians on Capitol Hill to Deliver Message to...

U.S. Newswire;  April 4, 2000 ;     303 words ......Advisory: -- The American Academy of Family Physicians Calls on Conferees To Produce a Comprehensive...Campaign for Re-Election -- Fifty family physicians from across America will converge...continue to dictate medical decisions. Family physicians are meeting with their ...

American Academy of Family Physicians releases a procedural skills paper...

American Family Physician;  March 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...The American Academy of Family Physicians has issued a procedural skills...esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) by family physicians that includes information...training and credentialing of family physicians in EGD. The paper was authored...

Family physicians lag in Tdap guideline adoption: the majority of those...

Family Practice News;  July 1, 2008 ;     541 words ......of pediatricians but only 75% of family physicians were recommending the vaccine routinely...sample of 725 pediatricians and 725 family physicians drawn randomly from the American...68% for pediatricians and 53% for family physicians, Dr. Dempsey reported in a poster...

AAFP issues position paper on diagnostic obstetrics-gynecology...

American Family Physician;  June 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...The American Academy of Family Physicians has issued a procedural...obstetrics-gynecology ultrasonography by family physicians. The position paper includes...and credentialing of family physicians in diagnostic ultrasonography...

Hershey Physician Elected President of the Pennsylvania Academy of Family...

U.S. Newswire;  May 18, 2007 ;     388 words ......Director of the Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians, +1-717-635-7577, ahalaja@pafp.com...president of the Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians (PAFP), the largest single specialty...Pennsylvania, representing about 4,700 family physicians, family medicine residents and ...

American Academy of Family Physicians and McNeil Nutritionals, LLC, Makers...

PR Newswire;  March 15, 2005 ;     700+ words ......PRNewswire/ -- The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and McNeil Nutritionals, LLC...distribution of a tool kit that will help family physicians improve the nutrition and fitness...patients. The kit will be available to family physicians in spring 2005 and its components...