From the NC Academy of Family Physicians, this is The Best News in North Carolina Family Medicine! This month's episode includes the state response to Hurricane Helene, our plans for the 2024 Winter Family Physicians Weekend in Asheville, our state advocacy to eliminate prior authorizations in the state health plan, and much more!

This is The Best News in North Carolina Family Medicine: the upcoming reform of prior authorizations from UnitedHealthcare, the newest NC medical school which will arrive in 2026 in Fayetteville, the NC delegation to the 2024 AAFP Congress of Delegates, and much more!

This is The Best News in North Carolina Family Medicine: the NCAFP meeting with state health plans to advocate for new primary care investment, the CMS physician payment reforms we need, our student summer programs, new rural health care funding for primary care clinics, and much more!

This is The Best News in North Carolina Family Medicine: the launch of Tailored Plans, the CMS physician payment reforms we need, and much more!

This is The Best News in North Carolina Family Medicine: congressional testimony against health care consolidation, registration for the 2024 Winter Family Physicians Weekend, a public health update on the status of avian influenza in NC, and much more!

Whenever we can, we make sure that our members hear about the most important news and resources in North Carolina Family Medicine. If they need to know it to help their patients, they’ll hear it from us. This is The Best News in North Carolina Family Medicine: increasing investment in NC primary care, new rules to improve Medicaid payments for family physicians, the new ABFM Certification cycle, and more!

In February, we hosted our annual Family Medicine Day. This event combines two of our favorite things: medical students, and unparalleled Family Medicine education. 87 medical students attended workshops hosted by North Carolina Family Medicine Residency faculty and residents, where they experienced the broad scope of medicine performed by family physicians each day. This learning helped medical students better understand our specialty, what they want for their future practice, and why Family Medicine is a crucial part of the healthcare landscape.

All of this made Family Medicine Day the perfect time to ask a few students and residency leaders what they were enjoying most. We were glad to speak with Dr. Melissa Bray Brown, Dr. Jannalyn Beste, Dr. Sushma Kapoor, Evan Morgan, Melissa Jenkins Soares, Jacob Pascual, Eelya Sefat, and Zoe Greene.

Today, we’re glad to share these interviews about the parts of Family Medicine which North Carolina medical students like best!

At the end of 2023, we were lucky to host the Winter Family Physicians Weekend at the Omni Grove Park Inn in Asheville. One of the biggest items of that business at the winter meeting is the induction of the new NCAFP president. At the 2023 meeting, we were honored to induct Dr. Garett Franklin as our president and hear his induction speech, which described his journey to Family Medicine, his hard-earned lessons as a family physician, and his plans and hopes for the specialty's future.

Hear NCAFP President Dr. Garett Franklin speak at the 2023 Winter Family Physicians Weekend!