NCFM Today

Welcome to NCFM Today! Today, we're reviewing the Best News in North Carolina Family Medicine: The 39.25 AAFP credits available at the 2026 Summer Symposium, ongoing Family Medicine advocacy at the federal and state levels, and how NC Family Medicine residencies fared in the 2026 Match process! Learn more about the Academy at www.ncafp.com!

We are thrilled to bring you the recording of NCAFP President Dr. Benjamin “Frankie” Simmons’s installation speech! Dr. Simmons (above) delivered this heartfelt, electrifying address during his installation ceremony at the 2025 Winter Meeting, where he discussed his path to Family Medicine, his conviction to serve his neighbors, and his hope for our specialty. “ Defying Gravity is exactly what it...

Welcome to NCFM Today! Today, we're reviewing the Best News in North Carolina Family Medicine: The 65.50 AAFP credits available at the 2025 Winter Family Physicians Weekend, the recent Medicaid rate and service cuts, how one NCAFP became a world leader in Family medicine, and other topics! Learn more about the Academy at www.ncafp.com!

Welcome to NCFM Today! Today, we're reviewing the Best News in North Carolina Family Medicine: The 2025 Winter Family Physicians Weekend, the expected impacts of the recent HR 2 federal bill, which NCAFP members are moving into new leadership roles, and other topics! Learn more about the Academy at www.ncafp.com!

Welcome to NCFM Today! Today, we're reviewing the Best News in North Carolina Family Medicine: The Care First Act (and its progress through the NC House!), the 2025 Family Medicine Match results, the Collaborative Care Management Capacity Building Fund, and other key topics! Learn more about the Academy at www.ncafp.com!

From the NC Academy of Family Physicians, this is The Best News in North Carolina Family Medicine! This month's episode includes the 25th anniversary of state oral health plans, new CDC vaccine guidance, the installation of NCAFP member Dr. Dev Sangvai as the new NCDHHS Secretary, and much more!

Listen to the installation speech of NCAFP's new President, Dr.  Mark McNeill, given at the Winter Family Physicians Weekend in Early December, as he discusses the innovative nature of family physicians and lessons learned from the impact of Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina.

Listen to 2024 NCAFP President Dr. Garett Franklin as he gives the State of the Academy Speech at the NCAFP Annual Meeting in December, 2024, as he approaches the end of his term. Dr. Franklin discusses the NCAFP's successes in 2024 advocating for our members throughout North Carolina.

From the NC Academy of Family Physicians, this is The Best News in North Carolina Family Medicine! This month's episode includes the state response to Hurricane Helene, our plans for the 2024 Winter Family Physicians Weekend in Asheville, our state advocacy to eliminate prior authorizations in the state health plan, and much more!

This is The Best News in North Carolina Family Medicine: the upcoming reform of prior authorizations from UnitedHealthcare, the newest NC medical school which will arrive in 2026 in Fayetteville, the NC delegation to the 2024 AAFP Congress of Delegates, and much more!

This is The Best News in North Carolina Family Medicine: the NCAFP meeting with state health plans to advocate for new primary care investment, the CMS physician payment reforms we need, our student summer programs, new rural health care funding for primary care clinics, and much more!

This is The Best News in North Carolina Family Medicine: the launch of Tailored Plans, the CMS physician payment reforms we need, and much more!

This is The Best News in North Carolina Family Medicine: congressional testimony against health care consolidation, registration for the 2024 Winter Family Physicians Weekend, a public health update on the status of avian influenza in NC, and much more!

Whenever we can, we make sure that our members hear about the most important news and resources in North Carolina Family Medicine. If they need to know it to help their patients, they’ll hear it from us. This is The Best News in North Carolina Family Medicine: increasing investment in NC primary care, new rules to improve Medicaid payments for family physicians, the new ABFM Certification cycle, a...

In February, we hosted our annual Family Medicine Day. This event combines two of our favorite things: medical students, and unparalleled Family Medicine education. 87 medical students attended workshops hosted by North Carolina Family Medicine Residency faculty and residents, where they experienced the broad scope of medicine performed by family physicians each day. This learning helped medical s...

At the end of 2023, we were lucky to host the Winter Family Physicians Weekend at the Omni Grove Park Inn in Asheville . One of the biggest items of that business at the winter meeting is the induction of the new NCAFP president. At the 2023 meeting, we were honored to induct Dr. Garett Franklin as our president and hear his induction speech, which described his journey to Family Medicine, his har...

NCAFP Immediate Past President Dr. Shauna Guthrie delivered the "Year in Review" speech during the 2023 Winter Family Physicians Weekend. She looked back on her work and the Academy’s 2023 achievements with gratitude, insight, and encouragement. We’re glad to bring you that entire speech for today’s podcast episode!

In this episode, NCAFP Communications and Membership Manager Kevin LaTorre speaks with Dr. Maureen Murphy, Dr. Macy Osborn, and Dr. Beat Steiner about the professional and personal benefits of the mentorship that family physicians receive from one another.  These mentor-to-mentee relationships can provide instruction, support, and companionship that physicians of every age and stage need for their...

In this episode, NCAFP EVP/CEO Greg Griggs and NCAFP General Counsel/Chief of Staff Shawn Parker discuss the 2023-24 North Carolina Budget including the many positives for family medicine specifically and primary care in general.  The discussion includes information about the passage of Medicaid Expansion; increased funding for health professional loan repayment, including a new program specifical...

 One of the greatest parts of our work at the Academy is connecting medical students with preceptors and mentors in an effort to best prepare them for life as a family physician. That process can take years and great support from our members, so we highly value and appreciate our members who are called to this role, and hope to open doors for more physicians to do so! Preceptors are physicians who...

Family Medicine is a versatile specialty full of different skills and procedures, and so family doctors have the chance to branch out, diversify their work, and enjoy it. For many family physicians, it’s professionally satisfying to practice the full range of their specialty.  However, some procedures require additional credentialing. And you know that credentialing can be a difficult process. In...

NCAFP interviews five mothers in family medicine to hear their stories at home, in the clinic, and everywhere in between. Workforce Initiatives Manager Perry Price spent months interviewing these physicians, and their input on the convergence of family and work, the best types of maternal leave, and the work still ahead is insightful, personable, and well-rounded.

In this episode, NCAFP's new President Dr. Shauna Guthrie delivers her installation speech at the Winter Family Physicians weekend, telling our members a little about herself and her vision for the Academy.

If you missed our 2022 NCAFP Annual Meeting, this is a must listen, and it should be even if you attended. Listen as outgoing President Dr. Dimitrios (Takie) Hondros provides the 2022 State of the Academy Address at our Annual Awards Banquet.  Dr. Hondros outlines the many accomplishments of the NCAFP throughout the last year.