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.
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The C.A.R.E. Clinic, a free clinic in Red Wing, Minnesota, recently received an American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation Family Medicine Cares grant. Since the C.A.R.E. Clinic opened in 2010,...
A secondary analysis of AAMC data on the financing of medical student education, led by University of Minnesota Medical School students, raises equity concerns as medicine works to improve the...
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A group of Minnesota physicians and health care workers from across the state joined together to ask Minnesotans to, once again, help slow the spread of COVID-19 and get vaccinated....
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Minnesota Help Me Connect is an online service navigator that helps physicians/clinicians connect pregnant and parenting families with young children (birth-age 8) with services in their community that support healthy...
The number of rural family doctors providing obstetric care is falling. Many small, rural communities are at risk of losing OB services, and maternal mortality continues to be significantly higher...