Contents tagged with workforce
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Highlights from TAFP’s Interim Session, April 8-9
Highlights from TAFP’s 2022 Interim Session
Words and video by Samantha White
The councils and committees of the Texas Academy of Family Physicians met in Austin April 8-9 and deliberated many … more
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Family medicine under the dome in the 83rd Texas Legislature
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By Jonathan Nelson
After all the heated controversy and partisan polemics that characterized this summer’s special sessions of the 83rd Texas Legislature, it’s difficult to … more
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CAPITOL UPDATE: Lege strengthens physician workforce, improves women’s health care, and reduces administrative hassles for physicians
Capitol Update: Lege strengthens physician workforce, improves women’s health care, and reduces administrative hassles for physicians
posted 06.11.13
The 83rd Texas Legislature finished the … more
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Family medicine makes a comeback in 2013 Match
Family medicine makes a comeback in this year’s Match
posted 03.19.13
Similar to growth in the program’s recent years, the 2013 Match was the largest in history, according to the National … more
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Improving the Primary Care Workforce in Texas video
Improving the Primary Care Workforce in Texas
Primary care is the key to better health outcomes and lower health care spending, but many Texans don’t have a primary care physician to care for them. … more
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Recommendations for strengthening primary care in the 83rd Texas Legislature
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Recommendations for strengthening primary care in the 83rd Texas Legislature
In preparation for the 83rd Texas Legislature convening in January 2013, the Texas Academy of Family … more
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The right kind of doctors for Texas
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Revisiting barriers to building the primary care workforce, 20 years later
By Kate Alfano
For 20 years, health care stakeholders have urged academic institutions to change how … more
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TAFP launches revived family medicine preceptorship program
TAFP launches revived family medicine preceptorship program
The ability for medical students to complete a family medicine preceptorship is an important recruitment tool to demonstrate the breadth … more
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Supreme Court upholds Affordable Care Act
Supreme Court upholds Affordable Care Act
posted 06.28.12
In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court has judged that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is constitutional. A five-member … more
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State leaders must be willing to invest in the training of more primary care physicians
By Tom Banning
TAFP CEO/EVPThere is not a self-respecting health policy analyst here or anywhere in the country who will say otherwise – we need to invest in and produce more primary care physicians.
The conventional economic wisdom, backed by common sense and an abundance of evidence drawn from the real world, is that patients with ready access to primary care receive more timely and optimal health care services with better outcomes. Primary care physicians provide preventive, coordinated, and continuous care which results in less invasive and costly medical intervention and reduces the probability of redundant or unnecessary services.
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