Join your colleagues for a webinar on February 28 at noon, "Obesity as a Chronic Disease: A Conversation Starter for Patient Centered Care." There is no cost to attend, however advanced registration is required. 

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MAOFP is seeking applications or nominations for our prestigious awards.

Click here to learn more and apply or nominate a deserving individual. Nominations for MSUCOM Student of the Year are due by February 1. All others are due March 1. 

Event is almost at capacity. Register soon! Michigan Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) and Michigan Association of Osteopathic Family Physicians (MAOFP) invite family physicians, family medicine residents, and medical students to downtown Lansing on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, to advocate for family medicine. The start of the new legislative cycle is a vital time to educate legislators about the quality, cost-effective care family physicians provide, as well as discuss policy and legislative issues impacting the delivery of, and access to, primary care.

Registration is now open. There is no cost for MAFP and MAOFP members to attend but advanced registration is required. Please invite your colleagues to join you. The greater the number of advocates that participate in Advocacy Day, the louder the family medicine voice!

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Are you an ACOFP member that plans to attend the 2023 ACOFP Annual Convention in New Orleans? Influence the practice of family medicine at the national level by serving as a Michigan delegate for the ACOFP Congress of Delegates. Delegates will vote on resolutions submitted by ACOFP and state societies and elect new officers to serve on the Board of Governors. Send an email director@maofp.org by January 6 to volunteer.

Schedule:

Virtual Reference Committees will be held on Saturday, March 9 via Zoom.

**Please note: the reference committees are sequential so delegates may attend all of them. If any of the committees end early, we will move on to the next.**

January 20, 2024

Shanty Creek Resort

Medical students and residents are invited to submit original research or case study poster applications for MAOFP's 2024 Scientific Poster Competition. The deadline to apply is January 5, 2024.

Legislation introduced in the House would maintain the physician-led patient care team, mandating advanced practice providers to assume specific duties within the scope of their regular professional activities. HB 4472 would also require advanced practice providers to maintain appropriate collaboration and consultation with a physician.

Patient-centered, physician-led care is the best way to increase healthcare access without compromising patient safety or quality of care. However, legislation has once again been introduced in Michigan that seeks to remove physicians from patient care teams. SB 279 would expand the scope of practice for advanced practice providers and jeopardize patient health and safety.

Contact your State Senator today. Tell them to vote NO on Senate Bill 279.

MAOFP and MAFP submitted a joint letter to the editor in response Medscape article, "The NP Will See You Now: Clinic Staffed by Nurses Provides Primary Care," asserting that the authors do not reflect the viewpoint and voice of our organizations or family doctors. The letter states that the physician authors did not sufficiently describe the training and educational differences between nurse practitioners and physicians, and that when our two professions collaborate in patient care, the safest and most effective treatment is provided.

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The Bureau of Professional Licensing has determined that physicians may delegate limited prescribing authority to pharmacists to allow them to prescribe self-administered, hormonal contraceptives. This is permissible under Michigan law, subject to certain conditions and requirements outlined in this Interpretive Statement. If a physician and pharmacist(s) choose to enter into a delegation agreement to allow the pharmacist(s) to prescribe self-administered, hormonal contraceptives, they may wish to review and consider this Sample Delegation Agreement for Pharmacist-Prescribed Self-Administered, Hormonal Contraceptives.

If you have questions about this topic you may wish to review the documents linked below, or you can email them to BPLhelp@michigan.gov.
 
Links to documents:

1. Delegation Agreement Template

2. Interpretive Statement

3. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

We invite you to give back to the growth of the osteopathic family medicine profession by contributing to MAOFP's MSUCOM student scholarship.  The scholarship is awarded each year to a third or fourth year student enrolled in the MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine who is planning a career in family medicine.

Donate online or by mail. Use the allocation code AS000108. to direct your gift to the MAOFP Endowed Scholarship.

Mail your contribution:

MSUCOM

Attn: Tricia Bradford

965 Fee Hall Road, Room A310

East Lansing, MI  48824