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Viviana Martinez-Bianchi Named 2021 NC Family Physician of the Year
By: Peter Graber
NCAFP Communications
CHAPTER AWARDS
Dr. Viviana Martinez-Bianchi Named NC Family Physician of the Year for 2021
Last December, during the NCAFP’s Winter Family Physicians Weekend, Duke University’s Dr. Viviana Martinez-Bianchi was named the 2021 North Carolina Family Physician of the Year. The award recognized Dr. Martinez-Bianchi’s wide range of academic teaching, clinical care, health policy leadership, as well as a lifelong commitment to serving and improving care to marginalized communities.
Growing up in Argentina, Dr. Martinez-Bianchi, MD, would watch her father, Carlos, deliver care to those around him – his family, members of the community and many more in the hospital and surgical center where he worked. A vascular surgeon by training, she was inspired by his passion for people and his commitment to providing care for the underserved and marginalized.
“I grew up in an environment with doctors,” noted Dr. Martinez-Bianchi. “My father, although a surgeon, I think he was the most family-doctor surgeon I’ve ever met! He would take his doctor bag with him in our cruising sailboat and fishermen who lived on the river’s edge would row out to our boat to consult with him. He would provide advice, cure wounds, bring medications from the city, check blood pressures, recommend stopping smoking. Sometimes we would bring someone back to the city for care at the hospital.” Martinez-Bianchi described a time when she was fourteen, specifically the 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration by the World Health Organization – a watershed moment that essentially declared health as a human right for the first time -- had a big influence on her parents, especially her father. “My father introduced me to the concept of the intersection between clinical care and public health and suggested I should create my own path.” This led her to dream of her own goals.
“I was taught to pay attention to the needs of the community,” she explained. “When I read about the declaration of Alma-Ata, I discovered I wanted a career that involved working in international policy. My international activities started with a summer program spent in Ireland learning English as a Second Language and living with a family in Dublin, and then going on to be a foreign exchange student in Mount Prospect, a suburb of Chicago, for my senior year of high school. In medical school, I learned I enjoyed primary care and wanted to help people of all ages.” At the time, Family Medicine was rising in the United States, and while not popular yet in South America, she knew she wanted to combine some aspects of public health and clinical care.
“Family Medicine is the vehicle that would allow me to have one foot on each side of public health and clinical care.”
After completing medical school at Argentina’s National University of Rosario School of Medical Sciences, Martinez-Bianchi travelled to the United States in 1990 to complete her Family Medicine training. Her first two years were completed at Hinsdale Hospital in Illinois, but she married Greg Bianchi, a medical student in Chicago and they moved to Iowa for his training in urology, and she finished at the University of Iowa/Mercy where she served as the Chief Resident. After residency, she entered practice as a rural family doctor.
“I always thought I would be an academic family physician, but the physicians I admired the most in academics were those who had served communities in rural spaces,” she explained. “I thought, ‘I want to be like them,’ and a physician who’s seen it all.” That vision drove her to serve the next five years in Muscatine, Iowa. She subsequently transitioned and served a stint as a Family Medicine faculty member at the Quad Cities Genesis Family Medicine Residency Program in Davenport, IA, from 2002 to 2005. She went on to complete a faculty development fellowship at the University of Cincinnati.
Seeking escape from the biting cold winters of the mid-West, she arrived in North Carolina in 2006, joining Duke University faculty. Martinez-Bianchi arrived at a time when the school had just decided to redesign its Family Medicine residency. While she immediately recognized the wealth of resources available at the institution, especially in its work within community, she also saw some gaps.
“What I saw was a disconnect between how residents were being trained and the community,” she explained. “My thought was that we could redesign the program to really put residents in the community, have them understand how to develop partnerships, and train them to engage communities, be leaders and partners.” Martinez-Bianchi helped play an important role in the program’s redesign, working closely with colleagues Drs. Lloyd Michener, Woody Warburton, Joyce Copeland, Viki Kaprielian, Brian Halstater, and others.
Intertwined with her academic and clinical work has been a passion for policy making and contributing to the specialty through wide-ranging efforts in organized medicine. Dr. Martinez-Bianchi explained that both of her parents were involved in their societies, and she would often see their excitement after returning from conferences and meetings.
“I’ve always thought I could contribute more and learn more through participating and giving back,” she noted, in explaining her drive.
While in Iowa, Martinez-Bianchi become involved in the
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Iowa AAFP chapter by representing the state at AAFP’s National Conference of Women, New Physicians and Minority Physicians, a precursor to today’s National Conference of Constituency Leaders. She came back from that initial conference enthralled.
“I came back so energized! I had found colleagues with whom I could share concerns about health inequities in a safe space and learn with them how to make a difference…” she explained. The following year, Martinez-Bianchi would be elected as the Minority Alternate Delegate to the AAFP Congress. Alongside, she was also chosen to serve on the Iowa chapter’s board of directors. According to Martinez-Bianchi, both state and national involvement are great ways to contribute back.
During the last decade, Martinez-Bianchi has focused much of her energy within the international Family Medicine community with the World Organization of Family Doctors, WONCA. She began to serve after being selected to represent WONCA at some select high-level meetings of the World Health Organization and the United Nations. Most recently, Martinez-Bianchi served two terms on the WONCA Executive Committee, and as liaison to the World Health Organization which she described as an incredible opportunity to learn and influence international policy. “I found myself in Kazakhstan representing family doctors at the Global Conference on Primary Health Care in October 2018, held by WHO and UNICEF celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Declaration of Alma-Ata. It was a powerful experience to have gone full circle from the message of the declaration of health as a human right that inspired me to become a doctor, to being there in person, influencing how the countries of the world would support primary health care.”
Today, Dr. Martinez-Bianchi sees patients at Duke Family Medicine, does mother-baby care rounds at Duke Regional Hospital and works as Director of Health Equity for the Duke Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Close to the clinical frontlines but also perched to see the wider public health aspect of the university’s work, it’s a vantage point that has allowed her to see how policy making can link up with efforts on the ground.
“This is a key role of a family doctor,” noted Martinez-Bianchi, “because we can see how our communities are impacted by the decisions that are made.” She went on to describe that many emerging health issues are seen early in the clinic before they become ‘public health numbers.’ For example, her clinic diagnosed 53 cases of COVID at the very beginnings of the pandemic, and together with colleagues working in Siler City, she worked on education after she was alerted about the initial outbreak at a meat-packing facility in Alamance County in a largely Spanish-speaking population. Combining the two issues, she sprang into action almost immediately.
Dr. Martinez Bianchi quickly saw the crucial need to communicate with North Carolina’s Spanish-speaking citizens. She played an instrumental role in establishing the Latinx Advocacy Team & Interdisciplinary Network for COVID-19, better known as LATIN-19. The group launched in March of 2020 to address inequities in the COVID-19 pandemic response within the Latino community, focusing on the health system in general and specifically communities in Central North Carolina and helping to address their vulnerabilities and strengths. She frequently contributed to DHHS’s daily news conferences, and her leadership efforts were immediately recognized by state health leaders.
“At the peak of the pandemic, almost half of positive COVID-19 cases in North Carolina were among Latino residents, despite representing less than 10 percent of the population,” wrote former DHHS Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen in a letter supporting her nomination. “Turning this trend around was not easy and would not have been possible without the leadership and partnership of LATIN-19.”
Martinez-Bianchi described the challenges of translating policy making efforts into on-the-ground action. Working with state health leaders like Dr. Cohen, she actively participated in several pandemic news briefings, presenting in Spanish, and speaking directly to members of that community. “The community heard the messages and were paying attention,” Martinez-Bianchi explained. She was later offered to co-lead the historically marginalized testing team for the NC DHHS. “We collectively created not only messages that people could understand, but also culturally and economically aware places closer to their own neighborhoods for people to get tested for Covid, and later on to get vaccinated.”
Dr. Martinez-Bianchi continues to apply the learnings of a skilled clinician to help train Duke residents both as clinicians and community leaders and is also just as involved at the intersection between public health and clinical care.
“All of my past experiences I’m using now to help make a positive difference.”
2021 ANNUAL REPORT
Jessica L. Triche, MD
2020-2021 NCAFP President
Dr. Triche attended UNC-Chapel Hill for undergraduate studies and attended medical school at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. She completed her residency training at Moses Cone Family Medicine in Greensboro, NC, where she served as Co-Chief Resident. Dr. Triche is married and has two sons and enjoys life on the water in Bath, NC. During her presidential service, Dr. Triche practiced at Vidant Family Medicine-Chocowinity located in Chocowinity, NC. She enjoys seeing a variety of patients as well as teaching medical students. She is a graduate of both Vidant's Physician Leadership Institute as well as the North Carolina Medical Society Foundation's Leadership College and completed their Health Care Leadership and Management (HCLM) Program in 2018. Dr. Triche served in several leadership roles within the Vidant System in the past. She also serves on the Beaufort County Board of Health.
2021 State of the Academy
Will it ever end? I am sure many NCAFP members asked themselves this very question multiple times throughout 2021. As we slogged through the pandemic’s second full year, delivering quality health care challenged everyone, including our practices, our patients, and the communities we serve.
Throughout these challenges, several silver linings emerged for our Academy and the specialty. We managed to sustain continued progress in several key areas, including advocacy by demonstrating our leadership on Family Medicine’s national stage, helping our state successfully transition to a new Medicaid delivery model. And as a ‘family’ of physicians, we even managed to come together in Asheville for the first time since 2019.
At the outset of 2021, Academy leaders committed themselves to not allowing the pandemic to hinder our advocacy. While we planned for a major shift to our state’s Medicaid program – the transition to managed care – we leveraged it as a growth opportunity. Our contributions over the past several years of planning helped make the roll-out relatively smooth, even in the face of
2020-2021 NCAFP Leadership
Executive Officers
President President-Elect Secretary/Treasurer Immediate Past President Executive Vice President
At-Large Directors
Jessica L. Triche, MD Dimitrios P. Hondros, MD Shauna Guthrie, MD, MPH David A. Rinehart, MD Gregory K. Griggs, MPA, CAE
Talia M. Aron, MD Elizabeth B. Baltaro, MD Jewell P. Carr, MD Garett R. Franklin, MD Nicole Johnson, MD, MPH Brian McCollough, MD Mark McNeill, MD Ying Vang, MD
continued operational challenges of COVID. Our Academy worked very closely with North Carolina's DHHS to ensure unforeseen issues were addressed as quickly as possible, and in doing so, helped strengthen our relationships with key state health leaders.
Another area of progress was our continued success relative to payment advocacy and administrative burden reduction. These two areas are extraordinarily important and were identified in our 2020 Member Needs Assessment as your leading issues. We didn’t let the pandemic slow us down on either of these fronts and we helped play an important role in ensuring that critical changes made to help practices during the pandemic were not sunset too soon. We also continued to advocate with our state’s insurers and payers relative to reducing administrative burdens, particularly around prior authorizations.
Outside of advocacy, I am proud to report that on Family Medicine's national stage, our state continues to be looked to for leadership. We were successful in helping to elect Dr. Karen Smith of Raeford, N.C., to the AAFP Board of Directors in a ‘virtual’ campaign that represented another first for the specialty. Dr. Smith is the latest in what’s becoming a very long line of North Carolinian family physicians who have been chosen for such a key national role.
Closer to home, the NCAFP succeeded in delivering new services to members while also adapting for new and future challenges. For the first time, we introduced a new Family Medicine podcast designed to help showcase the specialty’s contemporary topics in a digital format popular today. We also played a role in helping launch a second one hosted by two outstanding members, both former NC Family Physicians of the Year.
2021 was a memorable year in so many ways for all of us. For our specialty and our Academy, it was most remarkable to witness how we adapted, reacted and lead in healthcare.
Thank you for this opportunity.
Academic Position Mark L. Higdon, DO (Novant FMR)
Resident Director Clayton Cooper, MD, MBA (Duke)
Resident Director-Elect Ryan Paulus, DO (UNC)
Student Director Hannah Smith (ECU)
Student Director-Elect Morgan Carnes (Wake Forest)
AAFP Delegates & Alternates
AAFP Delegate AAFP Delegate AAFP Alternate AAFP Alternate
Karen L. Smith, MD Robert L. Rich, Jr., MD Richard W. Lord, Jr., MD, MA Tamieka M.L. Howell, MD
Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, MD
Executive Committee WONCA - The World Organization of Family Doctors
Mott P. Blair, IV, MD
Board of Directors American Board of Family Medicine
Tamieka M.L. Howell, MD
AAFP Commission on Membership & Member Services
Thomas R. White, MD
AAFP Commission on Quality and Practice
Hannah Smith
AAFP FMIG National Network Coordinator
Conrad L. Flick, MD
Vice Chair AAFP Federal Political Action Committee (FamMedPAC)
Strategic Progress
Payer and System Advocacy
• Succesfully advocated for family physicians relative to COVID Vaccination Priorization planning and roll-out.
• Conducted ongoing dialogue with state payers regarding the value of primary care, including input into value-based care model development, administrative burden reduction and workforce.
• Advocated for preceptor tax credit, as well as for funding for a Multi-Disciplinary Teaching Hub.
• Actively particpated in a White House Roundtable discussion on pediatric COVID vaccine distribution.
• Advocated for responsible extensions to the telehealth payment policies with payers.
Member Satisfaction and Practice Environment
• Gathered member feedback on administrative burdens.
• Collaborated with several other medical organizations in promoting pandemic practice support funding.
• Continued to co-sponsor a series of webinars on “Navigating COVID-19.”
• Sucessfully held virtual summer meeting and in-person Winter Family Physicians Forum.
Workforce Pipeline
• Ongoing financial support to the state's Family Medicine Interest Groups and residency programs.
• Presented a Community Preceptor workshop held at Annual Meeting.
• Continued successful medical student interest programs.
• Offered a virtual webinar on employment contracts.
Membership Profile
NCAFP’s overall 2021 membership by category:
NCAFP Membership Performance
Active member retention New physician retention 100% Resident Membership
Active............................... 2,584 Student................................859 Life.........................................371 Resident..............................393 Inactive.................................. 46 Supporting .............................8 Transitional .............................1
TOTAL................................. 4,262 1st Place for XL Chapters 1st Place for XL Chapters
Chapter Awards & Recognitions
Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, MD
Durham, North Carolina 2021 North Carolina Family Physician of the Year
Recognized for a wide range of academic teaching, clinical care, health policy leadership and a lifelong commitment to serving and improving care to marginalized communities, Dr. Viviana Martinez-Bianchi life's work in Family Medicine has centered around excellence in care, combined with a passion for mentoring, teaching and leading.
Continuing Medical Education
2021 Grants Program
2021 Virtual Summer Symposium (New!)
Tamieka Howell, MD – Program Chair 6.00 AAFP Prescribed Credits 125 Registered CME Attendees
2021 Winter Family Physicians Weekend
Jay Patel, MD – Program Chair Deanna Didiano, DO – Program Vice-Chair 33.75 AAFP Prescribed Credits 586 Registered CME Attendees 53 Exhibitor Displays
The Numbers For 2021
• 39.75 AAFP Prescribed Credits • 711 Total NCAFP CME conference attendees during the year • Secured $360,000 in grant funding, allowing the NCAFP to educate an additional 1,950 learners across the country
39+
AAFP CREDITS PRESENTED
711
MEETING ATTENDEES
$360,000
Grant Funding Secured
Due to the continued concerns with the global COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions regarding larger gatherings and travel, we received only 3 new grant programs whose meetings will occur in 2021 and 2022. While many programs held in early 2021 were virtual programs, we began the transition back to live meetings with some state chapters in the second half of the year. Even with this limitation, NCAFP was still able to provide a total of approximately 1,950 attendee/learners from the chapter partners for our programs.
Total Grant Funds: $360,000
Grants received from: Biogen, Amgen, Seqirus 10 AAFP Chapters who held 2021 Meetings from grants programs that were secured in 2021:
• Arkansas • Georgia • Iowa • Louisiana • Mississippi • Ohio • Pennsylvania • South Dakota • Texas • Virginia
Total Attendee/Learners from the Chapter Partners: 1,950 (does not include NCAFP learners)
The NCAFP Foundation promotes the specialty of Family Medicine to medical students in North Carolina. As a result of the continued COVID pandemic, NCAFP Foundation student experiences were paused. Student delegations from North Carolina did attend state and national virtual conferences and participated in the Foundation's annual research poster presentation held during NCAFP's Winter meeting. The Foundation continued to offer scholarships and other opportunities for medical students. Students were also engaged to develop leadership skills through active service on one of the NCAFP’s two Boards or three committees, or by participating in a policy and leadership rotation with the NCAFP.
2020-21 LEADERSHIP
President
Vice-President
Secretary-Treasurer
Physician Trustee
Physician Trustee
Physician Trustee
Physician Trustee
Physician Trustee
Physician Trustee
Physician Trustee
Academy President
Academy President-Elect
Corporate Trustee
Corporate Trustee
Corporate Trustee
Resident Trustee
Resident Trustee
Student Trustee
Student Trustee
Trustee Emeritus Shannon B. Dowler, MD, FAAFP
William A. Dennis, MD
Eugenie M. Komives, MD, FAAFP
Lisa A. Cassidy-Vu, MD
Christopher P. Danford, MD
Michael J. Harris, MD
R. Aaron Lambert, MD, FAAFP
Amy E. Marietta, MD, MPH
Susan A. Schmidt, MD
Holly L. Stegall, MD
Jessica L. Triche, MD
Dimitrios Hondros, MD
Rhett L. Brown, MD, FAAFP - Novant Health
Jim Kay - Curi
John R. Smith Jr., MD - BCBSNC
Matthew Drake, MD
Vanessa Crerar, MD
Jordan Rawlings
James B. Sanford
Maureen E. Murphy, MD, FAAFP
2021 BY THE NUMBERS
• $1,730,977 balance of the Medical Student Endowment, effective 12/31/21. • >$40,000 in direct financial support provided for student and resident programs. • $250,000 contributed by Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina. • $60,000+ in total Member Contributions to the Medical Student Endowment. • $10,000 contributed by corporate members to the Foundation.
2021 Foundation Contributors
Dr. Christina Anderson Mr. Chip Baggett Dr. Elizabeth Baltaro Dr. Elizabeth Baxley Dr. Mary Bengtson Dr. Holly Biola Dr. Regina Bray Brown Dr. Kristin Bresowar Dr. Rhett Brown Dr. John Campbell Ms. Morgan Carnes Dr. Joshua Carpenter Dr. Jewell Carr Dr. Lisa Cassidy-Vu Dr. Dawn Caviness Dr. Sandra Clark Dr. Clayton Cooper Dr. Valencia Covington Dr. Gary Crawford Dr. Vanessa Crerar Dr. Laddie Crisp Dr. Christopher Danford Dr. Wiley Davis Dr. William Dennis Dr. Andrea DeSantis Dr. Deanna Didiano Dr. Ashley Donahue Dr. Matthew Drake Dr. Amy E Marietta Dr. Ken Edel Dr. Fernando Escabi Mendez Dr. Walter Ezeigbo Dr. Mark Faruque Dr. Garett Franklin Dr. Joanne Fruth Dr. Deepak Gelot Dr. Anne Gonzalez Dr. Donald Goodman Mr. Greg Griggs NCAFP members and supporters of the Academy are encouraged to make gifts of on-going significance or annual contributions to the NCAFP Foundation. The following individuals contributed to the Foundation in 2021.
Thank you for your continued support.
Dr. Shauna Guthrie Dr. David Hall Dr. Shawn Hamm Dr. Michael Harris Mr. Brent Hazelett Dr. William Hedrick Dr. Mark Hester Dr. Mark Higdon Dr. Dimitrios Hondros Dr. Tamieka Howell Dr. Laura Hubbard Dr. Latonja Ivery Dr. Nichole Johnson Dr. Ronald Johnson Dr. Michelle Jones Dr. Cynthia Jones Dr. William Kelly Dr. Eugenie Komives Dr. Jill Konkol Dr. Aaron Lambert Dr. Ronnie Laney Dr. Kelley Lawrence Dr. Richard Lord Dr. Shelly Lowery Dr. John Mangum Dr. V. Martinez-Bianchi Dr. Alfred May Dr. Brian McCollough Dr. John Patrick McGee Dr. Mark McNeill Dr. Paul Meyer Dr. Jennifer Mullendore Dr. Maureen Murphy Dr. John Newton Dr. Michelle Nicholson-Wilson Dr. Carl Nordstrom Dr. Stephen North Dr. Deborah Norton Dr. Bill Parker Dr. Steve Parker Mr. Shawn Parker Dr. Pulak Patel Dr. Jay Patel Dr. Ryan Paulus Dr. Jeffrey Pennings Dr. Lara Pons Dr. Elizabeth Richards Dr. David Rinehart Dr. J. Carson Rounds Dr. John Rowe Mr. Bailey Sanford Dr. George Saunders Dr. Benjamin Simmons III Dr. Nadine Skinner Dr. Jessica Sloan Dr. Karen Smith Dr. Hannah Smith Dr. John Smith Dr. Richard Smits Dr. Neil Sparks Dr. Barbara Stagg Dr. Erika Steinbacher Dr. Christopher Street Dr. Paul Sykes Dr. Julian Taylor Dr. Netra Thakur Dr. Robert Toborg Dr. Jessica Triche Staton Dr. Ying Vang Dr. Eugene Wade Dr. Brittany Watson Dr. Patrick Williams Dr. Courtland Winborne Dr. Christopher Zagar
MEMBERSHIP & MEMBER SERVICES
By: Tara Hinkle
NCAFP Member Services Manager
Getting to Know AAFP's CME Policies
If you are a new physician, AAFP’s CME Re-Election process might be new to you. If you have been a member for a while, a little refresher might help clarify some questions you may have. The information below can be found on AAFP’s website, but we condensed it in one place for you.
So, what is re-election?
As a condition of continued membership, active members are required to report at least 150 credits of approved CME every three calendar years. This period is called a re-election cycle and always ends 12/31 of your re-election year (e.g., by Dec. 31, 2022, for a re-election cycle that ends in 2022). For AAFP members in their first re-election cycle, the cycle is four calendar years: the year in which they become an active member, plus the next three full calendar years. To be eligible for re-election, members must earn the required CME credits within the re-election cycle. Once members have met the CME requirement, they are “re-elected” to AAFP membership. If re-election requirements are not met, membership is canceled. You can find your three-year re-election cycle at www.aafp.org/cme.
What are the requirements for re-election?
Active members must report at least 150 credits of approved CME every three calendar years (i.e., during their re-election cycle). The 150 credits must include at least 75 AAFP Prescribed credits. AAFP Prescribed credit is designated for activities that are designed primarily for physicians. Content is directly related to patient care, patient care delivery, or certain nonclinical topics. A family physician who is an AAFP active or life member must be directly involved in the planning of the activity to ensure the content is relevant to the specialty of Family Medicine.
Examples of AAFP Prescribed credit include: • CME activities for which application has been made to the AAFP Commission on Continuing Professional Development (COCPD) that have been approved for AAFP Prescribed credit
• Instruction of health professions learners in formal individual (e.g., preceptorships) or live educational formats
• Most life support courses (e.g., ALSO, ACLS, ATLS, BLS, NALS, PALS)
• American Family Physician and FPM journal quizzes
• Most activities produced by the AAFP
• Some point-of-care learning
• Activities designated as Mainpro by the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC)
• Scholarly activities
AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association (AMA) as equivalent to AMA Physician’s Recognition Award (PRA) Category 1 Credit™ toward the AMA PRA. In addition, the NC Medical Board will accept AAFP prescribed credits from members to meet CME requirements.
If the activity is not considered Prescribed credit, it is recorded as AAFP Elective credit, which are activities not individually approved by the AAFP as AAFP Prescribed credit that have been designated as American Medical Association (AMA) Physician’s Recognition Award (PRA) Category 1 CreditTM or have been approved by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) are acceptable as AAFP Elective credit.
Examples of Elective credit include:
• Professional enrichment activities for which proof of completion is not required, (e.g., informal self-study activities, such as reading a medical journal); these activities may or may not be documentable
• Activities approved for American Medical Association (AMA) Physician’s Recognition Award (PRA) Category 1 Credit ™
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• Activities approved for American Osteopathic Association (AOA) credit
Programs created without family physician input and designed for nonphysician health care professionals, if they have medical education content of interest to family physicians.
Allowances:
• Professional enrichment: limited to 25 AAFP Elective credits
• Teaching health professions: limited to 60 AAFP
Prescribed credits
• Advanced training: limited to 25 AAFP Prescribed credits
• ABFM or AOA One-Day certification: limited to 30
AAFP Prescribed credits
• Scholarly activities: limited to 100 AAFP Prescribed credits (this includes credit for presentation/publication of a paper)
Members in other AAFP membership categories are not required to report CME but may do so to maintain a centralized CME record.
Reporting CME
Your CME credits must be reported in the year in which they were earned. AAFP bylaws do not allow for an extension to earn CME credit, so it is important to keep track of your progress at www.aafp.org/cme. You will need to be logged in to your AAFP account at the top right of the page to access and update your CME transcript. AAFP members can view, edit, print, or email transcripts of all CME activities they have reported since 2002 on this site.
You may also update your transcript via:
• AAFP’s free mobile app • Email: aafp@aafp.org • Phone: 1-800-274-2237 (M-F 9 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.) • Fax completed CME reporting form or certificate of participation to (913) 906-6075 • Mail to AAFP Member Resource Center, 11400
Tomahawk Creek Parkway, Leawood, KS 66211-2672. At the conclusion of a live AAFP CME activity, a link will be provided to assist you in reporting your CME for that activity. To obtain credit for an AAFP self-study or online CME activity (including American Family Physician, Family Practice Management, and FP Essentials™) you must complete a post-test or quiz. CME credit is added to your transcript on the date the post-test or quiz is completed.
AAFP members can print letters of participation for AAFP-produced CME activities.
• Click the “CME Transcript” link. • Click “Print Letter” next to the activity for which you would like to obtain a letter of participation.
If you have reported more than the required 150 credits but your status says you need more, this may be one of the reasons:
• You have not reported enough credits to fulfill the minimum requirement of 75 AAFP Prescribed credits.
• You have exceeded the maximum amount of credit allowed for certain activities during a three-year re-election cycle.
• The 150 credits you have reported were not all earned during your re-election cycle.
The AAFP reports out to other organizations, including the ABFM when you have met their CME requirements. By reporting your CME to the AAFP:
• You fulfill a requirement of AAFP membership.
• You maintain a centralized CME record.
• You have 24-hour access to your CME transcript.
• You can email a copy of your CME transcript to other organizations to which you belong.
ABFM Self-Assessment Modules and FMCLA
When you complete the self-assessment modules on the ABFM website, the CME credit will automatically be reported to the AAFP.
If you prefer to self-report, go to Report CME via www. aafp.org/cme then follow these instructions:
Click “Search Self-Study Activities.” Enter the date you completed the module. Enter a keyword from the title of the module. Enter American Board of Family Medicine as the provider.
Click “Search Self-Study.” Select the appropriate module(s). Click “Report Selected Activities.”
For participation in ABFM’s Family Medicine Certification Longitudinal Assessment (FMCLA), credit will be rewarded after successful completion. The FMCLA has been approved for 20 AAFP Prescribed credits.
Where to Find CME
You can search a comprehensive list of all AAFP certified CME on AAFP’s website at www.aafp. org/cme. Board Review questions are also available! In addition, when you attend NCAFP meetings and conferences, we will automatically report your CME earned to the AAFP by using your completed evaluation. Check out our upcoming CME opportunities at www.ncafp.com/ continuing-education.
Questions?
If you have trouble logging in, if you think your CME record has an error, or if you need help with CME, please call the AAFP Member Resource Center at 1-800-274-2237 or email aafp@aafp. org. You may also access AAFP’s CME FAQs at www.aafp.org/cme/about.html. It is important to note that not all CME providers report your CME credit to the AAFP automatically, so it is essential that you check your record frequently and self-report any missing credits.
Thank you for your continued membership, and we hope to see you at a CME event soon!
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