Contents tagged with rural medicine
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TAFP governance profile: Section on Maternity Care and Rural Physicians
By Jean Klewitz
Do you have a specific interest in rural medicine? Want to learn how to face challenges as a rural physician or a maternity care provider? This active section can help you work through those challenges. The integration of full-spectrum maternity care in rural family practices is their focus and they seek to create more opportunities for growth in these remote communities.
The section also works with AAFP’s Rural Health Member Interest Group and AAFP’s Reproductive Health Care Member Interest Group to provide opportunities for rural medicine and maternity care education, training, support, interest, and involvement for physicians, students, and residents.
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Texas Family Physician - Vol. 67 No. 1, Winter 2016
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President’s letter
Perspective
CONTENTS
Texas Family Physician of the Year 2015-16: Antonio Falcon, MDBorn and bred in Rio Grande City, … more
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The richest man in the world
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The richest man in the world
Story and photos by Samantha White
It’s 6 a.m. on a typical Thursday at the Family Health Center in the small border town of Rio Grande City, Texas. … more
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Why I precept medical students
By Adrian N. Billings, MD, PhD, FAAFP
Why do I precept medical students? Luckily, I ask myself this question less and less frequently because I enjoy having these junior colleagues with me, especially at 2 a.m. while delivering babies. However, I recently explored this question with some reflection on my past seven years of precepting around 100 medical students and 20 resident physicians in my practice.
Unequivocally, the answer to the preceding question is that I precept medical students because my patients receive better care if I have a medical student working with me. It does not matter how fresh a medical student is into clinical training, two sets of eyes and two sets of brains examining and thinking about a patient’s problem are better than my own brain by itself. I have had preclinical students consider and make diagnoses that I have not been able to. Even if the students don’t make the correct diagnosis and they hear zebra hoofbeats instead of horse hoofbeats, this mental task causes me to consider a broader and more thorough differential diagnosis with their valuable input. I consider it an honor and privilege to be entrusted by medical schools with these young student physicians.
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A new way to train family physicians
By Richard Young, MD
What is the best way to train comprehensive full-service family physicians to learn how to thrive in underserved rural Texas? How have duty hour restrictions affected residents’ training with this goal in mind? JPS might have some answers.
The John Peter Smith Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program was chosen to be one of 14 programs to participate in the Preparing the Personal Physician Practice (P4) experiment, which was conducted from 2007 to 2012. The leading organizations that regulate family medicine residencies allowed JPS and 13 other programs across the U.S. to blow up their curricula and start all over. JPS innovated its curriculum in two primary ways. This is a report on some of our preliminary results.
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Thank God I'm a Country Doc
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Thank God I’m a country doc
Story and photos by Samantha White
“This is where I’m from.”
The simplest of answers. When asked why he returned to his hometown of Eagle Lake, Texas, … more
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Member of the Month: Jake Margo, MD
Member of the Month: Jake Margo Jr., MD
Rural physician active in community and TAFP business
posted 1.7.15
TAFP Valley Chapter president and Hidalgo Starr County Medical Society president are … more
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New rural residency program in Permian Basin
New rural residency program in Permian Basin
A new residency program focusing on rural medicine has been established by the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at the Permian Basin … more
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Member of the Month: Jorge Duchicela, M.D.
Member of the Month: Jorge Duchicela, M.D.
Physician serves rural Texas and Ecuador through practice, institute
posted 10.15.12
Jorge Duchicela, M.D., is a rural private practice physician in … more
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Hart of Dixie: Feel-good family medicine hits the small screen
By Juleah Williams
Among this season’s new fall line-up comes a new drama from the CW – Hart of Dixie – featuring surgeon-turned-country doctor Zoe Hart. Full disclosure: As can be expected from most CW programming, this show is geared toward a teenage audience and includes enough love triangles and “frenemies” to keep their attention. However, exposing this young population to the benefits of primary care and emphasizing the importance of having a relationship with a personal family physician is crucial to increasing interest in the specialty down the road.
As the story goes, Zoe graduated at the top of her class from medical school and seeks to follow in the footsteps of her father, a cardiothoracic surgeon. After residency she fails to be accepted into a fellowship because her superiors deem her “too cold.” Desperate, she decides to accept the offer of a kind stranger—who turns out to be her real father—to join his family medicine practice as a general practitioner in Bluebell, Ala.
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