On this blog, you’ll find legislative updates, invitations to take action on proposed legislation, advocacy tools, clinical practice resources and family medicine voices.
Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians Gun Violence Prevention Working Group members Emily Benzie, MD, and Pat Fontaine, MD, MS, share ways family physicians can take action to decrease gun violence...
Dave Renner, CAE, Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians legislative rep, shares the latest health care updates from the State Capitol, including more movement on telehealth expansion, a change for mandatory...
Emily Onello, MD, profiles prominent rural medical educators in a new book meant to serve both as a guide for the next generation of rural medical educators and a resource...
Dave Renner, CAE, our legislative rep, recaps recent movement at the Minnesota State Capitol related to drug prices and formularies, childhood immunizations, MinnesotaCare expansion, mask mandates, hospital pricing and tobacco...
Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians member Stephanie Aldrin, MD, shares her experience with getting vaccinated for COVID-19 and urges you, when it’s your turn, to get the shot....