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Family Medicine Faculty More Diverse Than Most, but Still Wanting
Family medicine departments employ a higher percentage of female and minority faculty members than do other specialties' departments, but they still do not reflect the U.S. population.
Why this physician never considered any specialty other than family medicine
We talk a lot about the problems that we face as a health care community and what to do about them.
How to nail your family medicine residency interviews
Want to stand out in your family medicine residency interviews? I gathered intel from program directors, and this is what they said.
When you love family medicine, but you're worried about debt
Three doctors share creative ways physicians can pursue this specialty while making fiscally smart choices.
How To Use Functional Medicine Labs
How do you interpret Functional Medicine Labs to create root cause resolution diagnosis? Dr. Jill Carnahan took us into her strategy on the Functional Forum.
Family Doctors Who Do More, Save More
A study suggests that coordinated care, led by a family doctor who is judicious about referring patients to specialists, leads to cost savings.
How is the doctor-patient relationship changing? It’s going electronic.
Online records, video visits and smartphone medicine transform the traditional office appointment.
A New Framework: Why We Need Functional Medicine
Functional Medicine is not a new specialty or modality, but an emerging consensus on causes and cures for disease, framed to promote healthy lifestyles and disease-preventing behaviors. Dr. Mark Hyman shares an overview.
Medical students need to learn the potent medicine of empathy
Medical schools can erode empathy in students. Pre-med school boot camps can help make better doctors by teaching empathy and related "soft" skills.
How Medicine Became the Stealth Family-Friendly Profession
Female doctors are more likely than other professionals to have children and keep working. The reasons offer lessons for other jobs.
Choosing family over medicine: Why I decided to leave clinical medicine
It is disappointing that in today’s world, negative attitudes exist regarding a physician mother’s work ethic or need to “make up” for time lost while she was gone.
As physician well-being falls, rewards of medicine fade
A national survey finds most physicians feel a strong sense of calling to medicine, but changes in the medical workplace may threaten this conviction.
3 Things to Ask Your Internal Medicine Physician About Your Health
If you don’t know what an internal medicine physician does, find out. They’re a very valuable resource.
Physicians who changed the world by stepping outside of medicine
Five physicians who changed the world by stepping outside the boundaries of medicine.
9 things physicians hate about medicine
You might have guessed it. Paperwork and administrative burdens is the number one issue that frustrates doctors, according to a new poll.
How to Find a Functional Medicine Practitioner
You’ve been hearing about “Functional Medicine” — perhaps you saw Dr. Mark Hyman on a PBS special or you’ve read Dr. David Perlmutter’s bestseller Grain Brain or maybe you’ve heard about it from a friend—but you’re not sure how to find a local Functional Medicine doctor or practitioner. If you haven’t yet heard of Functional …
What is Osteopathic Medicine?
Osteopathic Medicine is founded in the belief that the body is more than just the sum of its parts.
