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.
Physician Mental Health: Change in Reporting Requirements
TOPIC: Advocacy, Legislative, Practice
MAFP Immediate Past President Alex Vosooney, MD, writes about the work to reform mental health reporting requirements for physicians and…
AAFP Federal Advocacy Update, January 2024
TOPIC: Advocacy, Legislative
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) federal advocacy team shares about a recent trip to Capitol Hill by AAFP…
Organizing & Advocating: Banding Together for Change
In fall 2023, hundreds of Minnesota physicians (many of whom are family doctors) voted to be represented by a union,…
Expanding Rural Family Medicine Training Across Minnesota
TOPIC: Education
A new medical school campus in St. Cloud—a partnership between CentraCare and the University of Minnesota Medical School—will expand the…
An Equity Lens Tool for Family Physicians
TOPIC: Leadership, Practice
The Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians Health Equity Committee adapted an equity decision-making tool to use in intentionally evaluating policies,…
