The AMA and STFM Shaping the Future of Medical Education, the Health of the Public, and the Health of Physician Practices

05-14-2018 10:57

The Amercian Medical Association (AMA) and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) share many common interests across a broad cross section of topics including undergraduate and graduate medical education, maintenance of certification / CME, and medical ethics (guiding professional development), improving the health of patients and populations with particular emphasis on diabetes, uncontrolled hypertension and the opioid epidemic (improving chronic care), and promoting tools, resources and pursuing an advocacy agenda that facilitates professionally satisfying and sustainable physician practices (tools for the field). These three broad areas are the AMA’s three areas of strategic focus with significant resources devoted to shaping the future in these areas. This session will review the current state of these three broad areas, explore gaps between current state and a better future state, and highlight what the AMA and other professional organizations are doing to address these gaps. 

Initiatives to be discussed include the AMA’s Accelerate Change in Medical Education initiative, physician and initiatives in partnership with other national organizations directed to reducing the progression of pre-diabetes to Type 2 diabetes and identification and more aggressive treatment of uncontrolled hypertension, development of practice tools and resources to help physicians perform successfully in the payment environment (including MIPS), and advocacy efforts with public and private payers and regulators to improve quality payment programs and reduce administrative burdens such as prior authorizations.

David O. Barbe, MD, MHA, a practicing family physician from Mountain Grove, Mo., is president of the American Medical Association. He has been a member of the AMA Board of Trustees since June 2009.  He also served on and chaired the AMA Council on Medial Service where he led development of AMA policy related to coverage of the uninsured, including insurance market, Medicare, and health system reform. He received his MD and Master of Health Administration degrees from the University of Missouri–Columbia.  He completed family medicine residency in Wichita, Kan.  Following residency, Dr Barbe returned to his hometown of Mountain Grove and established a solo practice in traditional family medicine, including obstetrics and endoscopy. Over time, He expanded his independent practice to two clinics and several physicians. After 15 years in independent practice, he merged his group with Mercy Clinic, Springfield, Mo., a 650-physician multi-specialty integrated group.  In his role as vice president of regional operations for Mercy, he is directly responsible for five hospitals, 75 clinics, and more than 200 physicians and advanced practitioners.

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