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Family Medicine and Reach Out and Read

Family Medicine and Reach Out and Read. Information, facts and answers to frequently asked questions about family medicine. A snapshot of Primary Care.

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Family Medicine and Reach Out and Read

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  1. Family Medicine and Reach Out and Read Information, facts and answers to frequently asked questions about family medicine

  2. A snapshot of Primary Care Source: DA, Cherry DK. National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2002 Summary. Advance Data from Vital and Health Statistics; No. 346, Hyattsville, Maryland: National Center for Health Statistics. 2004. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/ahcd/officevisitcharts.htm.

  3. What do family physicians do? Family physicians provide comprehensive and continuous primary care health care to: • individuals and families • women and men regardless of age or disease • infants, children and adolescents regardless of disease

  4. Family physicians provide • Prevention & management of acute injuries and illnesses • Health promotion • Hospital care for acute medical illnesses • Chronic disease management • Maternity care • Well-child care and child development • Primary mental health care • Rehabilitation • Supportive and end of life care

  5. What distinguishes family physicians from general internists? Ages and gender of patients seen by family physicians and general internists Source: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey:2002

  6. What FP attributes are valued? • Deep understanding of the whole person • Act as a partner to patients over many years • Talent for humanizing health care • A command of complexity Source: Martin JC, Avant RF, Bowman MA, et al. The Future of Family Medicine: A collaborative project of the family medicine community. Ann Fam Med. 2004 Mar-Apri; 2 Suppl 1:53-32

  7. Family physicians’ whole-person orientation and training ensures that FPs… • Consider all of the influences on a person’s health • Know and understand peoples’ limitations, problems and personal beliefs when deciding on a treatment • Are appropriate and efficient in proposing therapies and interventions • Develop rewarding relationships with patients

  8. Family physicians are relationship-oriented,which ensures… • Good relationships with other physicians and health care providers. • Better patient understanding of complex medical issues and improved participation in the care process. • Less expensive and better healthcare experience for patient.

  9. How are family physicians trained? • 3 years • More than 400 family medicine residencies • Community-based • Medical school-based • Military • Inner-city • Urban • Suburban • Rural

  10. Percentage of Children’s Office Visits by Specialty Sources: National Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys, 1992-2002 AAFP Task Force On the Care of Children, 2005

  11. Where do family physicians practice? Source: Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Practice and Primary Care. http://www.graham-center.org/

  12. ROR Expansion to FM • Increase the numbers of Family doctors doing ROR • Endorsement by the AAFP • Collaboration with Family Literacy efforts

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