Family MedicinePub Date : 2026-07-01DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2026.380757
Melanie Steiner, Eliza Taylor, Bernadette Kiraly, José E Rodríguez, Kolawole Okuyemi, Joseph B Stanford
{"title":"Piloting the Clinician Scholars Program: Structured Mentoring, Staff Support, and Dedicated Academic Time to Build Family Medicine Research Capacity.","authors":"Melanie Steiner, Eliza Taylor, Bernadette Kiraly, José E Rodríguez, Kolawole Okuyemi, Joseph B Stanford","doi":"10.22454/FamMed.2026.380757","DOIUrl":"10.22454/FamMed.2026.380757","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Designed as a scholarship pathway for research-curious faculty clinicians in a combined academic family medicine/public health department, the Clinician Scholars Program is a structured engagement between clinicians and research faculty who collaborate on two research projects over 1 to 2 years with support from master-level research staff. The program covers academic time of both the clinician and the research faculty without reduction of salary level, and it provides teams with research funds and dedicated staff effort. Five clinicians completed the 2-year pilot program; outcomes thus far include five manuscripts, one internal grant, and acceptance of one clinician into an institutional 2-year research mentoring program toward the development of a National Institutes of Health career development (K) proposal. Funded in part by a department-level endowment and independent of other institutional and national research pathways programs, the Clinician Scholars Program shows promise in building family medicine research capacity and fostering collaboration between clinicians and research faculty.</p>","PeriodicalId":50456,"journal":{"name":"Family Medicine","volume":"58 7","pages":"511-515"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13367384/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148450233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family MedicinePub Date : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2026-06-02DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2026.238597
John E Snellings
{"title":"Preference Signaling in Family Medicine: Context Matters.","authors":"John E Snellings","doi":"10.22454/FamMed.2026.238597","DOIUrl":"10.22454/FamMed.2026.238597","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50456,"journal":{"name":"Family Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"535-536"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13367392/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148273664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family MedicinePub Date : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2026-06-17DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2026.790936
Robert W Owens, Katherine T Fortenberry, Kirsten Stoesser, Emmanuel Adediran, Thomas Carlyle Whittaker, Bernadette Kiraly
{"title":"Comment on \"Redefining Value in Family Medicine Obstetrics: A Pathway to Sustainable Rural Maternity Care\".","authors":"Robert W Owens, Katherine T Fortenberry, Kirsten Stoesser, Emmanuel Adediran, Thomas Carlyle Whittaker, Bernadette Kiraly","doi":"10.22454/FamMed.2026.790936","DOIUrl":"10.22454/FamMed.2026.790936","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50456,"journal":{"name":"Family Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"537"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13367385/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148273651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family MedicinePub Date : 2026-07-01DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2026.495888
Allison Macerollo, Sally A Santen, Yoon Soo Park, Sandra Yingling, Sean O Hogan, Christina M Vitto, Judee Richardson, Catherine L Coe
{"title":"Milestone Attainment of Accelerated 3-Year MD Graduates Compared to Nonaccelerated Graduates in Family Medicine Residency.","authors":"Allison Macerollo, Sally A Santen, Yoon Soo Park, Sandra Yingling, Sean O Hogan, Christina M Vitto, Judee Richardson, Catherine L Coe","doi":"10.22454/FamMed.2026.495888","DOIUrl":"10.22454/FamMed.2026.495888","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>Accelerated 3-year programs (A3YPs) for an MD degree offer a condensed medical education pathway to residency, often with directed pathways in primary care. Many programs aim to address workforce shortages and decrease debt. As these programs expand, assessing whether A3YP graduates are as prepared for residency as their peers from traditional 4 year programs is critical. This study evaluates milestone attainment of A3YP postgraduates in Year 1 (PGY-1s) compared to non-A3YP PGY-1s within family medicine residency programs.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We analyzed the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education milestone ratings for family medicine PGY-1s from 2021 to 2023. The study included 109 A3YP graduates across 51 family medicine programs and 1,638 non-A3YP PGY-1s (MD, DO, international medical graduate) in those same programs. PGY-1s were compared across milestone competency domains using mixed-effects regression that accounted for clustering by program and subcompetency.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>At midyear, A3YP PGY-1s scored significantly higher in medical knowledge, systems-based practice, and practice-based learning and improvement. Differences were statistically significant but modest. Coefficients ranged from 0.05 for patient care and medical knowledge to 0.10 for practice-based learning and improvement (PBLI; P<0.01). At end-year, A3YP PGY-1s maintained slightly higher scores in medical knowledge, professionalism, PBLI, and communication (coefficients ranged from 0.07 to 0.10; P<0.01).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>A3YP graduates demonstrate equal or minimally higher milestone attainment compared to non-A3YP peers during PGY-1, supporting the viability of accelerated pathways. These findings reassure residency programs of A3YP readiness and highlight their potential to address workforce shortages and reduce student debt without compromising educational outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":50456,"journal":{"name":"Family Medicine","volume":"58 7","pages":"488-494"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13367388/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148450227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family MedicinePub Date : 2026-07-01DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2026.843444
Molly S Clark
{"title":"Balancing Two Truths: The Primary Care Shortage and Family Medicine Match.","authors":"Molly S Clark","doi":"10.22454/FamMed.2026.843444","DOIUrl":"10.22454/FamMed.2026.843444","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50456,"journal":{"name":"Family Medicine","volume":"58 7","pages":"544-545"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13367383/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148450286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family MedicinePub Date : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2026-06-17DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2026.621989
Andrea Marie Javier
{"title":"Presence With Patients.","authors":"Andrea Marie Javier","doi":"10.22454/FamMed.2026.621989","DOIUrl":"10.22454/FamMed.2026.621989","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50456,"journal":{"name":"Family Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"523-524"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13367387/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148273679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Family MedicinePub Date : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2026-06-17DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2026.581127
Bryce A Ringwald
{"title":"Advancing Hybrid Interviewing: From Bias Concerns to Assessment Quality.","authors":"Bryce A Ringwald","doi":"10.22454/FamMed.2026.581127","DOIUrl":"10.22454/FamMed.2026.581127","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50456,"journal":{"name":"Family Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"540-541"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13367394/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148273089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}