2019-20 – A Year in Review
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our MAFP leadership has been very active in 2019 and it is reflected in their annual reports that are included in this issue of the Missouri Family Physician magazine. Your Academy continues to advocate for family physicians and their patients at the local, state, and national levels. We serve medical students, family medicine residents, and family physicians in a variety of practice or academic settings. Match day in 2020 was a huge success for family physicians. With a total of 82 PGY-1 residency slots available, 73 were filled. The MAFP works with nine residencies (six allopathic and three osteopathic) in Missouri. The six medical schools with family medicine programs do not include campus expansions by Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences campus in Joplin, and the University of Missouri Columbia campus in Springfield. The MAFP staff met with five residencies and two medical schools to discuss organized medicine, 10
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advocacy training, priority legislative issues, and the benefits of membership in the MAFP. With the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, we are continuing this work, but in a different manner than face to face. The MAFP mission statement specifically calls for Advocacy. We represent our members on a wide array of policy issues and legislation. From medical malpractice to scope of practice issues, your voice is heard in the policy-making and legislative affairs. There were 40 attendees at the Advocacy Day which includes a detailed legislative briefing, legislator meetings, and advocacy training on current bills and family medicine priorities. In addition, a legislative briefing was live-streamed with six participants. Three Speak Out opportunities were available for those who were unable to attend: 21 messages were sent on Medicaid Expansion, nine messages on the preceptor tax credit Continued on page 12
