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Practice: Majority of my time now is spent teaching our next generation of physicians and oversee the clinical years at Noorda College of Osteopathic Medicine. We are in the final stages of getting our primary care clinic up and running and will see patients 1-2 half days a week. I enjoy taking our students to…

UAFP hosted another student & resident poster session in conjunction with our CME & Ski conference. Nine groups of residents and students presented their research to our judges and attendees at the conference and all of them did an outstanding job. Thank you to our judges and to our Poster Session sponsor, Comagine, for providing…

UAFP is preparing for what may be one of the most impactful legislative sessions yet. Now more than ever, we need Utah family physicians to learn how to speak out on behalf of their profession, their patients, and public health. UAFP has a number of ways you can be engaged:  Engaging with legislators is a…

Take an active role in shaping family medicine’s future when you come together with peers at the AAFP Family Medicine Advocacy Summit (FMAS), taking place Sunday-Tuesday, June 22-24, 2025. Whether you’re a first-time attendee or an advanced advocate, you’ll learn tactics for being a specialty champion. Plus, you’ll flex your skills when you lobby directly with members of Congress to…

Dear UAFP Members, The UAFP Political Action Committee (Utah Fam Med PAC) has endorsed the following candidates for the 2024 general election. These are candidates who, as elected officials, have shown strong support for the important issues that directly affect family physicians and/or their patients. If these candidates are in your voting district(s), we encourage…

Download the AAFP’s FREE Guidebook for this Year’s Match!With practical tips and expert advice to lean on every step of the way, Strolling Through the Match has been helping medical students for decades in the dash to match. As a comprehensive guide to the Match, this booklet provides reliable insight on professional development for all osteopathic and…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, Sept. 30, 2024 Maryann Martindale CEO, Utah Academy of Family Physicians  martindalemm@utahafp.org Utah Academy of Family Physicians Celebrates National Family Medicine WeekSalt Lake City, UT — The Utah Academy of Family Physicians celebrates National Family Medicine Week and thanks the family physicians, residents, and medical students in Utah for their commitment…

September is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Awareness Month. This annual observance highlights the importance of talking about FASD, preventing FASD, and supporting families living with FASD. FASDs are a group of conditions that can occur in a person who was exposed to alcohol before birth. It is estimated that up to one in 20…

Stay up to date on urgent health issues in Utah and across the nation through the Utah Health Alert Network, or HAN. The HAN is a notification system designed to quickly distribute urgent information during a disease outbreak, environmental threat, natural disaster, or act of terrorism, from public health to thousands of healthcare professionals and other key partners across Utah. This messaging system will only be…

The Utah Dept of Health and Human Services is recruiting members with expertise in the practice of family medicine, ideally including obstetrics, for our Maternal Mortality Review Committee and our Infant Mortality Review Committee. These interprofessional committees review all pregnancy-associated maternal deaths (death during or within 1 year of the end of pregnancy) and perinatal…