Family Practice-related Organizations
- American Academy of Family
Physicians -- http://www.aafp.org
The AAFP is a national organization of more than 80,000
family physicians, family practice residents, and medical
students. Its Web site contains public information about
the medical specialty of family practice, a private area
for AAFP members, patient education materials, fellowship
opportunities, faculty
placement services, residency
programs, recommended
core educational guidelines, and much more.
- American Board of Family
Practice -- http://www.abfp.org
The American Board of Family Practice's objective is to
encourage excellence in medical care through its certification
and recertification processes. ABFP seeks to provide patients
the assurance that its certified family physicians have
completed the necessary training/experience to provide quality
care to the individual and the family and that this commitment
to excellence is maintained throughout the physician's years
of practice.
- Association
of Family Practice Administrators -- http://www.afpa.net
The AFPA is dedicated to the growth and development of its members with particular emphasis on administration of health care delivery, education and research within family practice residency training programs.
- Association of Family
Practice Residency Directors -- http://www.afprd.org
Information about the AFPRD, including Highlights Newsletter,
strategic plan, and director development.
- Future
of Family Medicine
The
Future of Family Medicine Project is charged with developing
a strategy to transform and renew the specialty of family
practice to meet the needs of people and society in a changing
environment. It is a joint effort of the Family Practice
Working Party and the Academic Family Medicine Organizations.
- North American Primary Care
Research Group -- http://napcrg.org
Information about NAPCRG's organization, annual meeting,
publications, services, mailing list, and other research-related
information.
Formed in 1972, NAPCRG is a multidisciplinary organization
with a mission to foster the development of primary care
research.
- The American Academy on Physician and Patient (AAPP)
The American Academy on Physician and Patient (AAPP) is a society with over 20 years of
single-minded dedication to research, education, and professional standards in patient-doctor
communication. Its goal is no less than to change the practice of medicine by helping clinicians
and patients, and learners and teachers relate more effectively. The AAPP had its roots in the
Task Force on the Medical Interview, which was formed in 1978; the Academy was officially
organized in 1993 by the leadership of the task force.
The AAPP is involved in the development of communications instruction programs at the
undergraduate and postgraduate levels of medianticipatescal training as well as in the
world of our patients. We invite you to find out more about us and to join our efforts
to realize our vision of collaborative, relationship-centered healthcare. Click here for
more information: www.physicianpatient.org
- Global Family Doctor -- http://www.globalfamilydoctor.com
The Global Family Doctor--Wonca On-line provides a Journal
Watch – synopses of articles from family medicine/general
practice journals as well as the major general journals,
BMJ, Lancet, JAMA and others, brought to you within days
of publication, updated every weekday; News Briefs – shorter
items from the journals and 'breaking news; and Disease
Alerts – from WHO Communicable Disease Surveillance
and CDC in Atlanta to bring you the latest in disease outbreaks
and travel alerts worldwide. All are referenced, and in
most instances the reference is hyperlinked to the actual
online article – there you can get more details when
you want them.
The STFM Communications Committee
has reviewed the following list of
Web sites that may be of interest to STFM members.
These links do not imply STFM endorsement or content
review for sites that do not carry STFM's name.
Send requests for additional links to Traci Nolte at tnolte@stfm.org.
Last modified on September 26,
2001
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