Samantha Elwood

Dec 23, 2024 | jabfm.org | Samantha Elwood |Amanda Weidner

Capacity BuildingFamily MedicineA New Era in Family Medicine ResearchIn recent years, the landscape of family medicine research has undergone significant transformation.The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need for robust primary care systems, and Family Medicine, with its emphasis on comprehensive and continuous care that is built on the trust within the patient-provider relationship, is at the forefront.

Mar 25, 2024 | annfammed.org | F. Schneider |Amanda Weidner |Samantha Elwood

In 2009, the ADFM leadership wrote an Annals commentary describing the phases of the organization to date1; in 2012 they built on this piece, sharing ADFM’s new strategic plan.2 Since 2012, ADFM has had ongoing strategic planning efforts. We moved to a “strategic workplan” model in 2020, whereby new strategic goals were generated as previous goals were completed instead of “reinventing the wheel” every few years.

May 22, 2023 | annfammed.org | Irfan M. Asif |Amanda Weidner |Samantha Elwood

ContextFamily medicine has been grappling with its role as an academic discipline since its founding.1 At its roots, the family medicine specialty was founded as a counterculture movement to bring medicine back into the community.