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Your Academy in 2019 and beyond
By Jonathan Nelson
TAFP’s new strategic plan focuses on helping members care for patients
Last fall, the TAFP Board of Directors approved a new strategic plan for the Academy designed to strengthen the organization and ensure it works to help members do what they do best: take care of their patients and their communities. The plan is the culmination of a yearlong process led by TAFP’s elected leaders and a select group of other leaders. It will help guide Academy actions and endeavors for the next three to five years.
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Restoring funding to family medicine residency programs a top priority for TAFP in the 86th Lege
By Jonathan Nelson
We’re well into the third week of the Texas Legislature and now that the opening ceremonies are out of the way, lawmakers are beginning to get down to business. Both the House and the Senate have released their proposed budgets for the coming biennium, and both have announced committee assignments. Now the real work begins.
This session TAFP aims to fight for the restoration of funding for our family medicine residency programs to help address the increasing shortage of primary care physicians practicing in the state.
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Innovators Competition
TAFP Behavioral Health Integration Innovators Competition — Win $10,000
Share your model of behavioral health integration and you could win
The goal of TAFP’s Behavioral Health Integration … more
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October 2018
Member of the Month: Rathna Nuti, MD
Frisco physician practices sports medicine with a family medicine touch
By Perdita Henry
posted 10.03.18
Rathna Nuti, MD, is in the process of crafting … more
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Family Medicine Leadership Experience
The third class of the Family Medicine Leadership Experience poses on the dais in one of many hearing rooms at the State Capitol at the end of a long day of advocacy training.
Learning to lead … more
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Atlantic Health Partners offers low costs vaccines and support to TAFP members
By Perdita Henry
TAFP often engages, supports, and partners with organizations whose missions and values align with our own. Atlantic Health Partners is one of those organizations, and they are dedicated to making sure busy practicing physicians have access to the vaccines needed to keep their patients healthy.
They offer low prices on a comprehensive portfolio of immunizations and provide exemplary customer service.
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Preparing for the business side of running a practice
By Perdita Henry
TAFP recently launched the brand-new educational platform, Practice MEd, specifically designed to help residents learn the business side of running a practice.
This new educational tool incorporates user-friendly, interactive multimedia learning, and allows users to learn at their own pace. Practice MEd can be used as a standalone learning tool for practice management education or as a supplement to current training. These modules also count toward the 100 hours of health system management training required by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
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The Texas Council on Family Violence needs your help
By Perdita Henry
The Texas Council on Family Violence and associated researchers throughout the state are in the process of updating the Access to Safety, Justice, and Opportunity: A Blueprint for Domestic Violence Interventions in Texas, also known as the State Plan. The blueprint “serves as the core guidance document for determining and assessing underserved areas or populations as well as identifying and outlining any unmet needs for survivors of family violence.” It also serves as a funding map for both the Health and Human Service Commission Family Violence Program and the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act fund and contains a detailed inventory of family violence programs across the state.
Rachel Voth Schrag, PhD, LCSW, Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Texas at Arlington and lead researcher working on the State Plan, reached out to TAFP to talk about the challenges her team faces when it comes to identifying family violence survivors and the crucial role survivor interviews play in their research.
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December 2017 Member of the Month
Member of the Month: Vicky Bakhos Webb, MD, MBA
Third-year resident advocates for patients and her specialty
By Perdita Henry
posted 11.30.17
When she was 5 years old, Vicky Bakhos Webb, MD, … more
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C. Frank Webber Lectureship and Interim Session: We came, we saw, we conquered
By Perdita Henry
It’s the second week of April 2017 and that means TAFP just wrapped up Interim Session and C. Frank Webber Lectureship! It was great to see all of you for two days of business meetings and CME, but there was so much more that happened. In case you were busy with other important tasks, meetings, and networking opportunities, here’s some behind the scenes information.
This year’s CFW had 306 total attendees. Of our total number of attendees, 276 were physicians who had the opportunity to earn up to 17 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and AAFP Prescribed Credits. More than 100 members helped shape Academy policy and discussed hot topics on a wide range of issues in committee, commission, and section meetings during Interim Session.
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