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Greater Black representation in the primary care provider (PCP) workforce is associated with better population health measures for Black individuals, according to a study published online April 14 in JAMA Network Open. John E. Snyder, M.D., M.P.H., from the Health Resources and Services Administration in Rockville, Maryland, and colleagues assessed county-level Black PCP workforce representation

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Skip to main content Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Just one in eight medical students today enters family medicine each year — a ratio that needs to double to one in four “in order to help stop the primary care doctor workforce shortage,” said Dr. Jean Wong, director of the University of Michigan’s family residency program. The group

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Medicaid beneficiaries face barriers in accessing medical care—and that includes contraceptive care. A new study finds that despite birth control being an essential health service, all primary care physicians that see them may not be offering Medicaid patients some of the most effective, longer-acting birth control methods. While nearly half (48%)

To explore the efficacy of primary care telehealth, a recent Epic Research study examined the frequency of in-person physician visits that followed 18,636,522 primary care telemedicine appointments. WHY IT MATTERS The dual team study published by Epic found that 60% of the time, the virtual primary care telehealth appointments held between March 1, 2020 and October