Family doctor, teacher, researcher, author. Past editor @AnnFamMed Prof Emeritus of Family Med U of Washington, Seattle @uwfm
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10 Mar 2025
I spent most of my teaching career worrying about how many medical students become family physicians. Now, I am worried about how many family physicians become family physicians.
See my comment on Dr. Gravel's essay in Family Medicine.
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Family medicine commands a suite of superpowers: relationship-based, patient-centered, whole-person care for all. journals.stfm.org/familymedi…
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Engage more voices in more studies by adding CONTEXTperts to your research team.
Enhancing health research teams with CONTEXTperts | Journal of Clinical and Translational Science | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3YUleDm
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FAMILY MEDICINE FOCUS
Team Writing Etiquette in VERSE
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See the eComment for a Meta-Verse.
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Family medicine commands a suite of superpowers: relationship-based, patient-centered, whole-person care for all.
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Bill Phillips retweeted
8 Aug 2025
This study examined national prescription dispensing data, identifying signals of potential prescribing cascades among older-community dwelling adults in Ireland.
Read full article here: annfammed.org/content/23/4/3…
Listen to the Annals Podcast here:
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27 Jul 2025
Phillips WR. Just a GP: Diaries from a Career in General Practice. Fam Med. doi.org/10.22454/FamMed.2025…
Review of Denis Pereira Gray autobiography.
"In the quiet moments of a consultation, I find the heart of medicine; it is here where trust is built and healing begins.
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26 Jul 2025
NAPCRG Phillips Futures Fellowship - nominations now open
Do you know a colleague - any profession, academic field, nation, career stage, or research role - who demonstrates creativity and promise in primary care research? Nomination deadline 8/27/2025.
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Bill Phillips retweeted
17 Jul 2025
When "primary care" is discussed by med schools, it should be mostly Family Medicine, half ofPediatrics and (barely) Internal Med:
Pathways To Primary Care: Charting Trajectories From Medical School Graduation Through Specialty Training | Health Affairs healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10…
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25 Jul 2025
New Lancet Primary Care journal endorses the CRISP Checklist for reporting primary care research.
Phillips WR, Sturgiss EA.CRISP Checklist advances primary care through responsive research reporting. Lancet Prim Care 2025; 1: 100003. doi.org/10.1016/j.lanprc.202…
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25 Jul 2025
The new LANCET PRIMARY CARE, in its inaugural issue, endorses the CRISP Checklist for reporting primary care research.
Phillips WR, Sturgiss EA.CRISP Checklist advances primary care through responsive research reporting. Lancet Prim Care 2025; 1: 100003. doi.org/10.1016/j.lanprc.202…
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5 Jul 2025
What specialty produces most PC physicians?
PRIMARY CARE YIELD: IM - 35.5%, Peds - 54.4%. Family Medicine - 97%. Phillips WR, Park J, Topmiller M. Pathways to primary care... Health Affairs (Millwood.) 2005. 44(5):580–588. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2024.00893
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3 Mar 2025
In Family Medicine, our scope of practice is our identity and our destiny. Please see my comment on Dr. Gravel's editorial in Family Medicine:
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Bill Phillips retweeted
25 Feb 2025
A 2-minute précis of what got us here
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Bill Phillips retweeted
21 Feb 2025
Not every day that an internationally renown novelist post something like this.
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21 Feb 2025
If you, too, have had enough, please join me over on BlueSky.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.”
I hope my Twitter friends will join me at - @BillPMD.bsky.social
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10 Feb 2025
CRISP - Améliorer les rapports de recherche en soins primaires cfp.ca/content/71/1/e19
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