The fall issue of the Kansas Family Physician has a wonderful letter from our president, Chris Cupp, MD, of Scott City.  Titled "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants," it's on page 4 and you can access it by clicking here. 

While you have the KFP open, check out the other articles, especially the one on page 12 about the summer Rural Primary Care Practice and Research Program.  Some students got truly inspired this summer! 

It's another great issue, thank you, Marina! 

The Kansas Academy of Family Physicians is proud to nominate Dr. Mike Munger, a candidate known for thinking outside the box.  There is a reason his initials are M-SQUARED.  His leadership skills, diverse experience, passion for family medicine and vision for our shared future will exponentially make him the best candidate for the AAFP Board of Directors.

National Primary Care Week Oct 8-12

Next week is National Primary Care Week (NPCW).  What will YOU do to celebrate? 

We have some fun activities planned incorporating a NPCW Photo Project. Here's the scoop:  
Tomorrow is the Kansas Career Opportunities Conference, taking place at the Boat House in Wichita.  Our new staff person, Anna Deines, and I will host the KAFP exhibit.  And we will have posters and markers for participants to write what Primary Care means to them.  We will take a photo of each participant holding their poster, and post it online at the NPCW "Voices for Primary Care" webpage. 

We plan to get more NPCW Photo Project participants at two other venues: at the Kansas City Faces in Family Medicine 2.0 Dinner on 10/10, and at the KC Career Opps Conf on 10-11.  Check the Voices for Primary Care webpage after each event to see the creative ideas and comments from our participants. 

If you get inspired, write out your own comment and post it on the Voices for Primary Care webpage, too!  Let's have a BIG Kansas presence on the Voices webpage and for Primary Care! 

Primary care...  Makes people & communities healthier, is timeless, brims with hope, is the future of medicine, is changing the world, is where the Patient Centered Medical Home is located, is about value, not volume....   Fill in the blank: _______________________________________________________

A comment on our Kansas PCMH Initiative video

Click here to see a 3-minute video by the Kansas Health Foundation on our Patient Centered Medical Home Initiative.  The PCMH has been a huge emphasis for us for the last several years and we're extremely grateful to the Kansas Health Foundation, the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund, and the Sunflower Foundation for their generous grant allowing us a three-year time frame to pilot and promote the PCMH in Kansas while continuing our educational offerings on the important concept.  Leslea Roach is the project coordinator and it's great to have her expertise on this journey!