American Board of Family Medicine Announces Recipients of the 2020 AAFP Chapter Pilots

American Board of Family Medicine Announces Recipients of the 2020 AAFP Chapter Pilots

The American Board of Family Medicine has encompassing a variety of exciting initiatives. ABFM been grateful for the opportunity to work is excited to work with these Chapters, learning from with AAFP Chapters to mutually serve these chapters and identifying ways that their efforts AAFP members who are ABFM Diplomates could be replicated by other chapters through the or candidates in support of their certification creation of materials and processes that result from journey. In 2019 ABFM introduced an outreach these pilots. initiative that gave us the opportunity to meet with AAFP Chapter Executives and their MAFP IS THE RECIPIENT OF ONE OF members in their “home” chapters, as well as to provide enhanced and personalized education THESE GRANTS. about certification activities and requirements The MAFP project is aimed at increasing student to these physicians. We have learned much from interest in Family Medicine by increasing the this process that has already made a positive robustnessand collaboration ofFMIGsacrossthestate difference in our communication strategies and with statewide residency programs. The MAFP will our programmatic planning. Everyone benefits develop a unified tracking mechanism to monitor and when we are working together on behalf of evaluate FMIG interactions with pre-clinical medical family medicine and family physicians! students, setting a goal of100 students per year. They

Earlier this year, our Board of Directors endorsed the will also facilitate fourormore meetings peryearwith addition of a State Chapter Pilot Project opportunity FMIGs across the state to learn from each other. A for 2020. Through this, ABFM sought to provide long-term goal is to build relationships between family support to chapters seeking to create innovative ways medicine residents/programs across the state and the to address member needs in ways that also would medical schools’ FMIGs. align with ABFM’s Strategic Plan: Other states that were awarded grants are: Alaska, • Advancing the certification process California, Georgia, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, • Supporting family physicians through the Oklahoma, Oregon, and South Dakota. certification process ABFM is proud to support each of these Chapters • Promoting positive professionalism with their initiatives. The ongoing collaboration with • Supporting medical education ABFM diplomates’ “home” chapters will help us to • Transforming healthcare at the state and local continue to improve the value of certification. By levels better understanding the local environments and

AsubcommitteeofABFM staffand board members needs, we can better support physicians in their had the pleasure of reviewing submissions from certification efforts. We look forward to supporting chapters of all sizes and from each region of the country. these types of initiatives and communicating on their Ten chapters were selected for support in 2020-2021, progress throughout the coming year.

MAFP ENDORSES MEDICAID EXPANSION CAMPAIGN – AMENDMENT 2

The MAFP Board of Directors voted to support Amendment 2 which expands Medicaid in Missouri by a Constitutional Amendment. The timing ofthis issue ofthe magazine may overlap the August 4 election which is when Medicaid expansion will be on the ballot.

We are so proud to support the Yes On 2 campaign to deliver life-saving care to nearly 230,000 Missourians, keep our rural hospitals open, protect frontline healthcare jobs, and bring billions of our tax dollars home from Washington. Nearly 350,000 Missourians supported the chance to vote for Amendment 2.

Family physicians see more individuals and families who are underserved, poor, or come from a rural community than any other medical specialty. We have also seen the closure of 10 rural hospitals in Missouri since 2014. More than ever, Medicaid needs to expand in ourstate to provide Missourians accessto healthcare.

MAFP is one of 300 organizations to support this initiative along with the Missouri Hospital Association, Missouri State Medical Association, Missouri Nurses Association, and many other healthcare groups. Medicaid expansion in Missouri would help provide health coverage to more than 230,000 uninsured

adults in the state, the overwhelming majority of whom work at jobs that don’t provide health coverage, by extending eligibility to individuals earning less than $18,000 a year. That cohort includes 50,000 parents and 18,000 near retirees.

It would bring more than $1 billion of our tax dollars home from Washington each year, create thousands of jobs and boost the state’s economy. Thirty-six states have already opted to expand Medicaid, including neighboring Arkansas, where officials reported using savings from expansion to cut state income taxes and reduce payments previously allocated to the uninsured. Bordering states of Illinois, Kentucky, Nebraska and Iowa have also opted for Medicaid expansion. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have found that expansion could save our state more than $1 billion by 2026 by reducing many of the healthcare costs the state now pays.