Family values: Academy would hike funds to schools that produce more FPs

Article Abstract:

The Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) is urging legislators to redirect funding for research and student loans toward family practice. The new policy was endorsed at the group's annual Oct 1992 meeting, where 5,000 physicians debated ways to increase the number of family doctors while not alienating physicians in other specialties. Several organizations, including the AAFP, are calling for residency programs to require 50% of all medical school graduates to enter primary care. Impending health care reform will increase the need for family doctors and worsen an already critical shortage.

Planning, Supply and demand, Medical education policy

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Two faces of call coverage; for many solos, it's a hassle marked by compromises, fees

Article Abstract:

Physicians in solo practice often find it difficult to arrange adequate call coverage. Group practices have little to gain from covering solo physicians because they usually have their own internal call coverage arrangements. Because Medicare and most private insurers require the attending physician to directly bill patients, the practice of exchanging call with another solo physician can be further complicated by fee negotiations. Advice on arranging coverage is included.

Human resource management, Medical offices

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Some doctors say discrimination keeps them from getting help

Article Abstract:

The American Academy of Family Physicians' (AAFP) Congress of Delegates adopted a resolution in fall 1991 requesting its members to support cross coverage of all family physicians, particularly women, minorities and new physicians. The resolution was developed in response to complaints by a number of young physicians at a meeting of the AAFP's women and minority caucus that many physicians were refusing to exchange call because of racial or gender biases.

Social aspects, Personal narratives, Women physicians, Employment discrimination, Minorities in medicine, Substitute physicians

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