MAFP Advocacy Blog
On this blog, you’ll find legislative updates, invitations to take action on proposed legislation, advocacy tools, clinical practice resources and family medicine voices.
The Financing of Medical Education: Socioeconomic, Racial Differences
TOPIC: Education, MAFP Foundation
A secondary analysis of AAMC data on the financing of medical student education, led by University of Minnesota Medical School…
MN Physicians Urge Minnesotans to Get Vaccinated
A group of Minnesota physicians and health care workers from across the state joined together to ask Minnesotans to, once…
Online Service Navigator for Patients With Young Kids
TOPIC: Practice
Minnesota Help Me Connect is an online service navigator that helps physicians/clinicians connect pregnant and parenting families with young children…
We Need Family Docs With Advanced OB Training
TOPIC: Advocacy, Education, Practice
The number of rural family doctors providing obstetric care is falling. Many small, rural communities are at risk of losing…
Addressing the factors contributing to physician burnout
TOPIC: Advocacy, Leadership, Legislative, Practice
While there is not a singular cause for burnout, family physicians from across Minnesota have voiced shared concerns around payment…
