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This is The Best News in North Carolina Family Medicine: the launch of Tailored Plans, the CMS physician payment reforms we need, and much more!

This is The Best News in North Carolina Family Medicine: congressional testimony against health care consolidation, registration for the 2024 Winter Family Physicians Weekend, a public health update on the status of avian influenza in NC, and much more!

Whenever we can, we make sure that our members hear about the most important news and resources in North Carolina Family Medicine. If they need to know it to help their patients, they’ll hear it from us. This is The Best News in North Carolina Family Medicine: increasing investment in NC primary care, new rules to improve Medicaid payments for family physicians, the new ABFM Certification cycle, and more!

In February, we hosted our annual Family Medicine Day. This event combines two of our favorite things: medical students, and unparalleled Family Medicine education. 87 medical students attended workshops hosted by North Carolina Family Medicine Residency faculty and residents, where they experienced the broad scope of medicine performed by family physicians each day. This learning helped medical students better understand our specialty, what they want for their future practice, and why Family...

At the end of 2023, we were lucky to host the Winter Family Physicians Weekend at the Omni Grove Park Inn in Asheville. One of the biggest items of that business at the winter meeting is the induction of the new NCAFP president. At the 2023 meeting, we were honored to induct Dr. Garett Franklin as our president and hear his induction speech, which described his journey to Family Medicine, his hard-earned lessons as a family physician, and his plans and hopes for the specialty's future.Hear NC...

NCAFP Immediate Past President Dr. Shauna Guthrie delivered the "Year in Review" speech during the 2023 Winter Family Physicians Weekend. She looked back on her work and the Academy’s 2023 achievements with gratitude, insight, and encouragement. We’re glad to bring you that entire speech for today’s podcast episode!