Diplomate Spotlight Opening Doors with Board Certification: A Conversation with Long Standing Diplomate Joseph Cook Read Opening Doors with Board Certification: A Conversation with Long Standing Diplomate Joseph Cook
Phoenix Newsletter - July 2025 Available Now: 2026 5-Year Cycle Registration Read Available Now: 2026 5-Year Cycle Registration
Home Research Research Library The Path to Coordinated Federal Leadership to Strengthen Primary Health Care The Path to Coordinated Federal Leadership to Strengthen Primary Health Care 2022 Author(s) Phillips, Robert L, Koller, Christopher F, and Chen, Alice Topic(s) Role of Primary Care, and What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) Mental Health Care Volume Millbank Memorial Fund Source Millbank Memorial Fund In response to pressing health care challenges in the US, including health inequities, pandemic response and resilience, the opioid epidemic, and a mental health crisis, the 2021 National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report proposed significant reforms. They suggested establishing a Secretary’s Council on Primary Care, advised by a Primary Care Advisory Committee, to help coordinate and guide federal primary care efforts, as current efforts lack centralized leadership. This initiative, bolstered by the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Initiative to Strengthen Primary Health Care, requires considerable resource commitment and a multiagency effort for its successful execution. However, it would also require congressional backing to establish a more permanent Office of Primary Care for long-term success. The proposed council would engage with significant health stakeholders and guide six core interagency activities including assessing federal primary care payment and workforce sufficiency, coordinating research investment, addressing technology and data needs, promoting alignment of payer policies, and establishing meaningful metrics for assessing primary care quality. Read More ABFM Research Read all 2017 Preserving Primary Care Robustness Despite Increasing Health System Integration Go to Preserving Primary Care Robustness Despite Increasing Health System Integration 2013 Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence Go to Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence 2023 Primary Care Physician Leadership in Top Ranked US Hospitals Go to Primary Care Physician Leadership in Top Ranked US Hospitals 2018 Family Medicine Hospitalists Three Years Out of Residency: Career Flexibility or a Threat to Office-Based Family Medicine? Go to Family Medicine Hospitalists Three Years Out of Residency: Career Flexibility or a Threat to Office-Based Family Medicine?
Author(s) Phillips, Robert L, Koller, Christopher F, and Chen, Alice Topic(s) Role of Primary Care, and What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) Mental Health Care Volume Millbank Memorial Fund Source Millbank Memorial Fund
ABFM Research Read all 2017 Preserving Primary Care Robustness Despite Increasing Health System Integration Go to Preserving Primary Care Robustness Despite Increasing Health System Integration 2013 Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence Go to Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence 2023 Primary Care Physician Leadership in Top Ranked US Hospitals Go to Primary Care Physician Leadership in Top Ranked US Hospitals 2018 Family Medicine Hospitalists Three Years Out of Residency: Career Flexibility or a Threat to Office-Based Family Medicine? Go to Family Medicine Hospitalists Three Years Out of Residency: Career Flexibility or a Threat to Office-Based Family Medicine?
2017 Preserving Primary Care Robustness Despite Increasing Health System Integration Go to Preserving Primary Care Robustness Despite Increasing Health System Integration
2013 Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence Go to Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence
2023 Primary Care Physician Leadership in Top Ranked US Hospitals Go to Primary Care Physician Leadership in Top Ranked US Hospitals
2018 Family Medicine Hospitalists Three Years Out of Residency: Career Flexibility or a Threat to Office-Based Family Medicine? Go to Family Medicine Hospitalists Three Years Out of Residency: Career Flexibility or a Threat to Office-Based Family Medicine?
