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Family Medicine — a weekly podcast briefing of the most significant peer-reviewed family medicine literature, synthesized from PubMed and delivered as ~10-minute audio. For practicing physicians. Generated by AudioScholar at audioscholar.cc.

  1. 3d ago

    This Week in Family Medicine — Aug 17, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Family Medicine. This week we're covering nine notable papers spanning diagnostic restraint and overtreatment in primary care, prevention gaps in the populations we serve least well, and new evidence on integrating and scaling… This week's papers: 1. Management of Shoulder Pain in Primary Care: A Review — JAMA Internal Medicine 2026 2. Serologic Immunity to Hepatitis A and B in US Adults and High-Risk Populations — JAMA Internal Medicine 2026 3. Out-of-hours C-reactive protein point-of-care testing and its association with long-term healthcare-seeking — Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2026 4. Evidence-Based Tobacco-Cessation Strategies for Low- and Middle-Income Countries — New England Journal of Medicine 2026 5. Effectiveness of a scalable, remotely delivered stepped-care intervention for psychological distress among Polish migrant workers in the Netherlands: The RESPO… — PLOS Medicine 2026 6. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus — Nature Reviews Disease Primers 2026 7. A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccination to accelerate immune recovery after sepsis — Science Translational Medicine 2026 8. Integrating hypertension care into the existing HIV services package in Botswana (InterCARE): a pair-matched, cluster-randomised, type 2 hybrid effectiveness-i… — The Lancet Global Health 2026 9. Avoidable mortality, clinical outcomes and determinants of premature death among adults with severe or profound intellectual disability: A population-based ana… — PLOS Medicine 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/3b3e7st3fa

  2. Aug 4

    This Week in Family Medicine — Aug 4, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Family Medicine. This week we are covering ten notable papers spanning the rapid integration of point-of-care ultrasound in training, strategies for optimizing complex diagnostic and preventive care pathways, and the critical… This week's papers: 1. Multiorganizational Recommendations for Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Family Medicine Residency Education — Family Medicine 2026 2. Iron deficiency testing among people with incident heart failure in primary care — BJGP Open 2026 3. Patient perspectives on the impact of an initial non-cancer diagnosis prior to a subsequent cancer diagnosis: a secondary qualitative analysis — The British Journal of General Practice 2026 4. Priority topics for preconception care in general practice: a consensus study — BJGP Open 2026 5. Experience and impacts of violence and abuse by patients towards general practice staff — The British Journal of General Practice 2026 6. What primary care physicians in Germany consider meaningful and meaningless work: a qualitative interview study using reflexive thematic analysis — BMC Primary Care 2026 7. From Pilot to Practice: A Checklist Approach to POCUS Training in Family Medicine — Family Medicine 2026 8. The use of patient-reported outcome questionnaires in patients with post-COVID-19 condition: a systematic review and meta-analysis — Family Practice 2026 9. A Novel Learner- and Patient-Oriented Needs Assessment for a Point-of-Care Ultrasound Curriculum in Family Medicine — Family Medicine 2026 10. The telesafe archive: a feasibility study of assembling a database of UK primary care telephone consultations — BJGP Open 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/e4gbzyfarg

  3. Jul 13

    This Week in Family Medicine — Jul 12, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Family Medicine. This week we're covering 7 notable papers spanning cardiometabolic health optimization, the patient and caregiver experience in primary care, and the digital and clinical competencies shaping modern practice.… This week's papers: 1. Triglyceride-glucose index normalized by waist circumference and life's simple 7 to identify high-risk hypertensive patients in primary care. — BMC Primary Care 2026 2. Prevalence and factors associated with controlled blood pressure among hypertensive patients in a Malaysian primary health clinic-a cross-sectional study. — BMC Primary Care 2026 3. Barriers to satisfactory primary care contacts for Swedish cancer survivors: a cross-sectional survey. — Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2026 4. The role of health literacy and attitudes toward artificial intelligence in the acceptance of telemedicine services among adults in Turkey: a cross-sectional s… — BMC Primary Care 2026 5. Caregiver's burden and their relationship to physical activity, exercise self-efficacy, perceived exercise benefits and barriers in caregivers of children with… — BMC Primary Care 2026 6. Facilitators of good consultations in primary health care clinics in Botswana: a qualitative study of patients' and doctors' views. — BMC Primary Care 2026 7. Knowledge, attitude and practice towards oral anticoagulants: a cross-sectional study among healthcare professionals in Nigeria. — BMC Primary Care 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/yu7p68jte6

  4. Jul 6

    This Week in Family Medicine — Jul 5, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Family Medicine. This week we're covering 8 notable papers spanning cardiometabolic risk stratification, expanding access through alternative preventive pathways, and improving care coordination for complex and vulnerable popu… This week's papers: 1. Enriching New-onset Diabetes for Pancreatic Cancer (ENDPAC): External validation using English sentinel network. — The British Journal of General Practice 2026 2. Primary HPV Testing for Cervical Cancer Screening Among Family Medicine Educators. — Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 2026 3. Clinical phenotypes of type 2 diabetes and their association with microvascular complications in primary care: a cluster analysis. — BMC Primary Care 2026 4. An Analysis of Common Questions and Concerns of Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions. — Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 2026 5. Recording of Pharmacy First consultations in general practice records in England: an observational study of the service's first year using OpenSAFELY. — The British Journal of General Practice 2026 6. Disparities in the uptake of learning disability (intellectual disability) annual health checks. — The British Journal of General Practice 2026 7. Learning disability register enrolment in young people in England: Cohort Study, 2015-2023. — The British Journal of General Practice 2026 8. Characteristics of Children Seeking Care at School-Based Health Centers. — Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/pmefx8wxhj

  5. Jun 30

    This Week in Family Medicine — Jun 30, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Family Medicine. This week we are covering nine notable papers spanning maternal-fetal and neonatal health, geriatric cardiovascular prevention, and emerging diagnostic and therapeutic frontiers in oncology. Let us dive in. W… This week's papers: 1. Reporting Interest-Holder Engagement in Practice Guidelines: The RIGHT-MuSE Checklist. — Annals of Internal Medicine 2026 2. Prenatal Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) Use and the Risk of Autism and/or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Among Sibling-Matched Cohorts. — JAMA Internal Medicine 2026 3. 10-Minute Consultation: Discussing and prescribing analgesia in pregnancy. — BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2026 4. Metabolic determinants of cancer immunotherapy outcomes identified by plasma profiling. — Nature Medicine 2026 5. Ten-Year Outcomes after CAR T-Cell Therapy for B-Cell Lymphomas. — The New England Journal of Medicine 2026 6. Cardiovascular outcomes and safety associated with statin therapy for primary prevention in older adults with type 2 diabetes: A target trial emulation study. — PLoS Medicine 2026 7. Phase 3 Results of Bepirovirsen Treatment for Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection. — The New England Journal of Medicine 2026 8. Using large language models to identify prediagnostic clinical features of ovarian cancer from healthcare records: a population-based case-control study. — The British Journal of General Practice 2026 9. Symptom-Based Dosing for Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal: The OPTimize NOW Randomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/kacemeps7c

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Family Medicine — a weekly podcast briefing of the most significant peer-reviewed family medicine literature, synthesized from PubMed and delivered as ~10-minute audio. For practicing physicians. Generated by AudioScholar at audioscholar.cc.