Family Medicine Week Raises Awareness of the Need for More Investments in Primary Care |
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Family Medicine Week Raises Awareness of the Need for More Investments in Primary CareWe are coming off a busy and energizing week here in Michigan. March 19-25 was Michigan Family Medicine Week, an annual campaign designed to spotlight the family medicine specialty's role in keeping families and individuals of all ages healthy, helping patients manage chronic conditions, and reducing the need for unnecessary hospitalizations and emergency room visits, thus lowering healthcare costs. Michigan Academy of Family Physicians designates Family Medicine Week each year as the week following the Main Residency Match and encompassing our Advocacy Day; this generates tremendous engagement, exposure, and momentum The Michigan Family Medicine Week 2023 message: everyone needs a primary care physician as their usual/regular source of primary and preventive care, yet barriers exist that prevent that from being reality. Investments in primary care and the primary care workforce are needed to increase access to care and to more evenly distribute family physicians across health professional shortage areas of the state. Below is a summary of the success of Michigan Family Medicine Week 2023:
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