Editor
Goutham Rao, MD
Call For Papers: Expanding the Primary Care Workforce
Help us advance available research in an increasingly critical area. We are especially interested in studies and ideas for recruiting and retaining primary care physicians. Benefit from publishing with an international, peer-reviewed journal.
Read the Call For Papers here.Meet the Editor
Goutham Rao, MD, takes over as Editor-in-Chief of Family Practice. Learn more about his extensive experience in family medicine and community health.
NAPCRG Best Paper
The 2022 winning paper is "Improving prescribing: a feasibility study of pharmacogenetic testing with clinical decision support in primary healthcare in Singapore" by Smith et al., which demonstrates the feasibility of pharmacogenetic testing in primary care, and lays the groundwork for a future in which such testing becomes routine.
CASFM Methods Briefs
The peer-reviewed CASFM Methods Briefs are now regularly published in Family Practice, as a result of a partnership between the journal and the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG)'s Committee on Advancing the Science of Family Medicine (CASFM). The long-term aim is to generate a library of qualitative and quantitative research methods.
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Family Practice is an international journal aimed at practitioners, teachers, and researchers in the fields of family medicine, general practice, and primary care in both developed and developing countries. Find out more about submitting from the below links.
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