Family Practice Management is a publication of the American Family Physician.

It shows the variety of ways family physicians are working to preserve and advance family medicine and to improve the quality of care in today's varied practice environments. There are papers that provide the tools for dismantling barriers, to stay in control, and to practice the way we want.

Educational Objectives of Family Practice Management

Family Practice Management aims to promote the ideals of family practice and to help readers improve their knowledge and skills in several areas:

High quality, cost-effective patient care
Effective, ethical practice in managed care
Computerizing practice and maximizing the usefulness of computers
Diagnosis and procedure coding
Career and practice development
Developments in Medicare and other federal health care programs
The evolving health care system and the place of family practice in it
Balancing the demands of professional and personal life
Developing and exercising leadership skills

The website address is: http://www.aafp.org/fpm/index.html

10 June 2000 - PRB1