Call for Rural Family Physicians
As the new COVID-19 vaccines become accessible to more people in Utah, the Utah Health and Economic Recovery Outreach (HERO) project at the University of Utah, with the support of the State of Utah, are trying to learn about individual’s thoughts and opinions about getting or not getting vaccinated against COVID-19.
Gathering this information will help with the State of Utah’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. If you choose to participate in this voluntary study, you will be included in an online focus group of other participants, among primary care providers. The focus group will last for an hour, and we will ask you about your experiences with COVID vaccinations. Your participation will be anonymous, and you can join the focus group with an alias name. All information provided for this research study will be held strictly confidential. It would be great to hear from you regardless of whether you have positive or negative feelings about the vaccine. As a token of appreciation for your time, the HERO project will gift you a $120 gift card after the interview. You can learn more about the HERO project here. The success of this research study depends directly on the generous help and support of people like you. We recognize that your time is valuable. Please contact Cassandra Cowdell by Tuesday, July 29 at 5:00pm at 801-664-8835 if you are interested in participating.
Join UAFP for a Night of Fun, Food, Baseball, and Fireworks!
UAFP is offering discount tickets that include a picnic dinner, a seat at the game (SL Bees vs. Sacramento River Cats), and a free fireworks show to cap off the evening! Discount ticket prices are $15 for adults (ages 11 and up) and $10 for kids (ages 2-10). Children under two can attend for free and no ticket is needed. Discount purchases are limited to six per UAFP member and to the first 100 tickets sold, so don't wait - get your tickets while supplies last!
Implicit Bias CME - Register Now
UAFP, with a grant from the AAFP Center for Diversity and Health Equity, is offering this course for family medicine physicians and other primary care providers seeking to better understand the impact of unconscious bias and how to reduce negative effects of implicit/unconscious bias on patients.
When: Saturday, September 18, 2021 8:30 AM – 3:00 PM Where: In-person at the University of Utah Alumni House AND Virtual through Zoom Target Audience: All healthcare professionals looking to mitigate the negative effects of implicit bias both professional and personally The AAFP has reviewed Mitigating Implicit Bias and deemed it acceptable for up to 3.75 In-Person, Live (could include online) AAFP Prescribed credit. Term of Approval is from 09/18/2021 to 09/18/2021. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Hike with a Doc
Saturday, August 7
Attending physicians, residents, and students - like to hike? And network?
Join us on Saturday, August 7, 2021, from 9:00 a.m. -10:30 a.m. for a hike to Lake Solitude in Big Cottonwood Canyon to participate in our medical student mentoring activity, where attending and resident family physicians hike with medical students to share their experiences and why they chose Family Medicine.
UDOH Aims for 70% of adults in Utah to have at least one shot of COVID-19 vaccine by July 4Since the FDA authorized COVID-19 vaccines for use in individuals 12 and older, more than 1.5 million Utahns have received their first dose!
These vaccines are exceedingly effective. As of March 23, when all Utahns 16 and older became eligible to receive the vaccine:
• There have been 27,017 total COVID-19 cases identified in Utah. 96.9% (n=26,205) of them have been unvaccinated people..
• There have been 1,532 people hospitalized. 95.2% (n=1,459) of them were unvaccinated.
• And there have been 110 deaths. 98% (n=108) of them were unvaccinated. Your leadership as family physicians is crucial to helping us not only accomplish this important goal, but also to avoid a COVID-19 resurgence. We know July 4 is only two weeks away, but this strategic goal is achievable — especially if you will join us in a flash campaign to promote and support vaccinations in your practices. Read more...
Delta variant ‘on the way’ to being dominant COVID-19 strain, University of Utah health experts saySalt Lake Tribune - People who don’t get vaccinated against COVID-19 are becoming more likely to get sick from the coronavirus, experts at the University of Utah say — because of the spread of the Delta variant. “Choosing not to get vaccinated is a choice to ultimately get infected by this virus,” said Stephen Goldstein, a virologist and post-doctoral researcher at the University of Utah School of Medicine, on Tuesday
during a briefing carried over Facebook Live. The Delta variant of the coronavirus, which first emerged in India late last year, has already become the dominant strain of the virus in the United Kingdom and is approaching becoming the dominant strain in the United States, said Dr. Sankar Swaminathan, chief of the division of infectious diseases at University of Utah Health. Data from the Utah Department of Health, Swaminathan said, “suggests that it is on its way to becoming dominant in Utah, if not already dominant.” Read more...
AAFP: We Can Put More FPs Where They’re Most Needed. Here’s How.
AAFP - Congress gave us a cool present back in December, but it was very much the batteries-not-included kind of toy. Section 126 of the 2021 appropriations bill with its various pandemic-related stimuli, included 1,000 new Medicare GME residency positions — the first such increase in nearly a quarter-century. Turning that once-in-a-generation offering into a true gift, however, is up to CMS, keeper of the batteries. And what we’re seeing in a proposed rule on how to distribute those residencies — while smartly engineered in some important ways — falls short of the Energizer Bunny mark. Read more...
Eradicating Systemic Racism
by José Rodríguez, MD, FAAFP
Good Notes: Voices of U of U Health - As the awakening to the reality of anti-Black racism took hold across the country, multiple institutions, including ours, issued statements denouncing racism. Medical and health care trainees across the country wrote letters to the deans of their schools requesting immediate change to admissions policies, relationships with police, curriculum, and support for underrepresented students in health care. Anti-racism commissions were formed and many people spent countless hours working on ways to root out anti-Black racism everywhere it rears its ugly head. I am grateful for all of the work that has been done in this area. I have met individuals fully invested in the cause of anti-racism. And I have witnessed
others change attitudes and practices as their eyes have been opened to the everyday racism to which our Black community is constantly subjected. Their willingness to individually change—and change systems of oppression—brings hope to all of us. Read more...
Advancing LGBTQ+ Health Equity: Understanding HIV PrEP and Transgender Hormone Therapy WebinarThursday, August 19, 2021
Led by Utah's own Dr. Erika Sullivan and Hosted by Ohio AFP Learn more and register here
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