Positive Parenting Tips for Parents with Teens.

This article aims to provide an overview of areas impacting adolescent well-being, offering input and sensible parenting tips. The article is structured into 5 key components that are critical in adolescent life including social media use, nutrition and physical activity, discipline, mental health, and sexual health.

Cervical Cancer: Preventable Deaths Among American Indian/Alaska Native Communities.

American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) individuals have twice the mortality rate of cervical cancer than the general US population. Participation in prevention programs such as cervical cancer screening and human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination are under-utilized in this population. There are high rates of established cervical cancer risk factors among this community, with AI/AN people having a higher likelihood of infection with high-risk HPV strains not included in the 9-valent vaccine.

Implementation of App-Based Diabetes Medication Management: Outpatient and Perioperative Clinical Decision Support.

Purpose Of Review: Outpatient and perioperative therapeutic decision making for patients with diabetes involves increasingly complex medical-decision making due to rapid advances in knowledge and treatment modalities. We sought to review mobile decision support tools available to clinicians for this essential and increasingly difficult task, and to highlight the development and implementation of novel mobile applications for these purposes.

Recent Findings: We found 211 mobile applications related to diabetes from the search, but only five were found to provide clinical decision support for outpatient diabetes management and none for perioperative decision support.

Impact of a Targeted Rural and Underserved Track on Medical Student Match Into Family Medicine and Other Needed Workforce Specialties.

Background And Objectives: There is a shortage of physicians in rural communities in the United States. More than other types of primary care physicians, family physicians are the foundation for care in rural areas.1 There are also critical shortages of other specialties such as general surgery, pediatrics, internal medicine, and psychiatry in rural America.

Association of Family Medicine Interest at Matriculation to Medical School and FMIG Participation With Eventual Practice as a Family Physician.

Background And Objectives: An adequate family medicine workforce is needed to improve health and health care outcomes in the United States, yet few medical students in the US become family physicians. Indicators of family medicine interest upon medical school matriculation exist. Family medicine interest groups (FMIGs) may influence student choice.