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Home Research Research Library Mandating Clinician COVID-19 Vaccination May Hinder Population-Level Uptake Mandating Clinician COVID-19 Vaccination May Hinder Population-Level Uptake 2021 Author(s) Eden, Aimee R, and Coutinho, Anastasia J Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification Keyword(s) Population Health, and Professionalism Volume Family Medicine Source Family Medicine Health care worker vaccine hesitancy has great impact not only on a worker’s individual health, but on the health of their patients, patient families, and on a population level. Because voluntary uptake of many vaccines, including the novel SARS coronavirus 2 (COVID-19) mRNA vaccine, has not been sufficient, vaccine mandates for health care workers have been suggested as one mechanism to ensure patient and health worker safety.1,2 In the current pandemic climate, the question arises: should clinicians, especially those who provide direct patient care, be mandated to get the COVID-19 vaccine? We argue that despite legal precedent for requiring vaccines, setting mandates for COVID-19 vaccines for health care professionals would be detrimental to population-level uptake, a high level of which is necessary to curb the pandemic. ABFM Research Read all 2013 A Closer Look at Recertification Candidate Pass Rates Go to A Closer Look at Recertification Candidate Pass Rates 2024 Timing of Certification Stage Completion Associated with Subsequent Certification Exam Outcomes Among Board-Certified Family Physicians Go to Timing of Certification Stage Completion Associated with Subsequent Certification Exam Outcomes Among Board-Certified Family Physicians 2025 Blueprinting the Future: Automatic Item Categorisation using Hierarchical Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Classifiers Go to Blueprinting the Future: Automatic Item Categorisation using Hierarchical Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Classifiers 2016 Maintenance of Certification, Medicare Quality Reporting, and Quality of Diabetes Care Go to Maintenance of Certification, Medicare Quality Reporting, and Quality of Diabetes Care
Author(s) Eden, Aimee R, and Coutinho, Anastasia J Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification Keyword(s) Population Health, and Professionalism Volume Family Medicine Source Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2013 A Closer Look at Recertification Candidate Pass Rates Go to A Closer Look at Recertification Candidate Pass Rates 2024 Timing of Certification Stage Completion Associated with Subsequent Certification Exam Outcomes Among Board-Certified Family Physicians Go to Timing of Certification Stage Completion Associated with Subsequent Certification Exam Outcomes Among Board-Certified Family Physicians 2025 Blueprinting the Future: Automatic Item Categorisation using Hierarchical Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Classifiers Go to Blueprinting the Future: Automatic Item Categorisation using Hierarchical Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Classifiers 2016 Maintenance of Certification, Medicare Quality Reporting, and Quality of Diabetes Care Go to Maintenance of Certification, Medicare Quality Reporting, and Quality of Diabetes Care
2013 A Closer Look at Recertification Candidate Pass Rates Go to A Closer Look at Recertification Candidate Pass Rates
2024 Timing of Certification Stage Completion Associated with Subsequent Certification Exam Outcomes Among Board-Certified Family Physicians Go to Timing of Certification Stage Completion Associated with Subsequent Certification Exam Outcomes Among Board-Certified Family Physicians
2025 Blueprinting the Future: Automatic Item Categorisation using Hierarchical Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Classifiers Go to Blueprinting the Future: Automatic Item Categorisation using Hierarchical Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Classifiers
2016 Maintenance of Certification, Medicare Quality Reporting, and Quality of Diabetes Care Go to Maintenance of Certification, Medicare Quality Reporting, and Quality of Diabetes Care
