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Pay Your Dues by December 31, Get Rewarded! |
THANK YOU to the physicians who have already renewed their MAFP membership for 2021! This year, AAFP is offering a SPECIAL INCENTIVE for all members who pay in full by December 31: It's half off a CME livestream course sometime in 2021. Details here.
Here are just 3 ways you benefit by STAYING A MEMBER:
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MAFP has someone at the State Capitol representing you. The Academy participates in state legislative hearings and has a paid lobbyist to serve as a go-to resource for members of the Mississippi Legislature.
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MAFP monitors proposed regulatory actions so we can keep you informed. The Academy attends online and in-person meetings of the Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure and works with their staff.
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MAFP culls through the mounds of information and tells you what's important. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Academy began distributing a daily newsletter summarizing the most important information family physicians needed to know, and continues to distribute news periodically.
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Learn From the Batson-Crosby Triage Protocol for COVID-Positive Patients |
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I nor the Hattiesburg Clinic take any responsibility for anyone using this information – just sharing what has worked for us! -- Dr. Crosby
Family physician Dr. Samuel Crosby of Hattiesburg, an MAFP past president, has shared with MAFP his experiences with treating COVID-19 patients at Hattiesburg Clinic in the hopes that other family physicians can benefit from their accumulated knowledge.
After treating 6,000 COVID-positive patients, Dr. Crosby and his Hattiesburg Clinic colleague Dr. Bryan Batson report a remarkably low hospitalization rate of 1% and a mortality rate of only 0.6%.
"Sorting out signs and symptoms, risk factors and testing needs that would make a difference in diagnosis and prognosis was a challenge," Dr. Crosby said. "Our triage protocols changed almost daily as we observed, learned more, reviewed literature, and followed CDC and MS Department of Health updates."
The Batson-Crosby Triage Protocol spells out an innovative nebulized ETOH treatment, recommended supplements and other OTC therapies. It also includes the text of notes sent home with positive patients.
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Drs. Dobbs, Byers Advise About Vaccine Availability for Physicians |
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The Mississippi State Department of Health will begin January 4 setting up vaccination sites for healthcare professionals throughout the state.
At the MAFP Board meeting on Zoom Dec. 15, Dr. Paul Byers, State Epidemiologist, and Dr. Thomas Dobbs, State Health Officer, said that any healthcare professional -- and they would be liberal in that regard -- would be able to get their vaccine at those times. The storage difficulties with the Pfizer vaccine is the primary reason that only larger institutions were in the first disbursement.
"We have been trying to broadly distribute (through Health alert messages, etc.) that all healthcare personnel, including family physicians not associated with hospitals, will be eligible to receive vaccine through MSDH vaccine clinics (and other settings as more vaccine becomes available) in early January," Dr. Byers said. "Vaccine availability is a limiting factor to broad distribution. We will advertise it broadly when and where MSDH clinics will be."
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Attend the Healthy Living ECHO for Primary Care Physicians on Jan. 4, Feb. 1
Start the new year off right with a Healthy Living 6-session ECHO aimed at primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses and other health care workers.
Put together by the UMMC Department of Preventive Medicine, the MSU Extension Service and Aim for Change, each ECHO session earns physician participants 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. There is no cost.
The monthly sessions will run from January to June. The topics and times for the first two sessions are below.
January 4, 7-8 pm (Zoom)
Presenter: Josie Bidwell, DNP, FNP-C, DipACLM, Assoc. Professor, UMMC Dept. of Preventive Medicine
February 1, 7-8 pm (Zoom)
Presenter: Elena Dent, PhD, RDN, LDN, CDCES, Instructor, UMMC Dept. of Preventive Medicine
To register, e-mail Brea Cole and you will be sent the Zoom information.
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MS, AL AFPs Host KSA Boot Camp |
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MAFP joined forces with Alabama AFP on December 12 and hosted a Knowledge Self-Assessment (KSA) Boot Camp attended virtually by more than 50 family physicians.
Mississippi's three KSA instructor physicians broadcasted the session live from the MAFP office. MAFP President Dr. James Griffin (pictured) gave a welcome to participants and handed it over to instructors Drs. Jennifer Gholson, John Mitchell and Katie Patterson.
Three back-to-back KSA sessions done in a 9-hour time frame made for a concentrated day of learning for doctors, who were able to earn up to 24 hours of CME in one day.
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MAFP Membership Directory Released |
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The electronic MAFP Membership Directory is now available! Two versions are linked below:
The publication is also available on the directory page of our website. If you access it from the website, you will need this password: mafpdirectory2021
Print out the directory yourself, or save it to your computer as a searchable PDF for future reference. We urge you to support our advertisers, including those physicians in the Referral Directory.
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Susan A. Chiarito, MD, FAAFP, of Vicksburg |
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John R. Mitchell, MD, FAAFP, of Pontotoc |
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Chiarito, Mitchell Recognized by AAFP
Two Mississippi family physicians have been recognized for their work on AAFP Commissions.
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Dr. Susan A. Chiarito of Vicksburg has been named the Chair of the Subcommittee on Public Health Issues, part of the AAFP's Commission on Health of the Public and Science. She served as Vice Chair of the subcommittee this past year and was promoted to chair. Chiarito is a MAFP past president and has past service as an AAFP Delegate.
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Dr. John R. Mitchell of Pontotoc has completed his service on the AAFP Commission on Education, where he has served for 4 years. He is a MAFP past president and currently serves as an AAFP Delegate.
Any member physician interested in being nominated to serve on one of AAFP's seven commissions should contact Beth Embry.
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MAFP Resources for Physicians
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