Dr. Gerry Tolbert will be attending the NCSC meeting for the first time. I'll be giving him his orientation along with previewing my Social Media talk for the meeting that is now less than a week away now!

Topics include Tips To Succeed at next week's 2012 AAFP National Conference of Special Constituencies, Your AAFP News Update, "The Buffett Rule For Prostate Screening", and much more. Hope you can join us!

AAFP Board Member Julie Wood, MD will join me to discuss the upcoming 2012 AAFP National Conference of Special Constituencies meeting in 2 weeks in Kansas City. Follow her on twitter @JulieKWoodMD - She is the associate director at the Research Family Medicine Residency Program in Kansas City, MO. She is also medical director of Goppert-Trinity Family Care, a 55 provider outpatient clinic.

Topics include the upcoming 2012 AAFP National Conference of Special Constituencies meeting in less than 2 weeks, previewing today's social media talk at the medical school, Family Medicine Media Training, the AAFP News of the week, and much more. Hope you can join us!

Topics tonight include the upcoming 2012 AAFP National Conference of Special Constituencies meeting, news of the week, and follow-up to some recent posts and podcasts. Hope you can join us!

Dr. Glen Stream, President of the American Academy of Family Physicians, will appear to discuss the recent decision by the Academy to remain in the RUC (AMA/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee). He'll also discuss the AAFP Primary Care Valuation Task Force. For more background information check out the Family Medicine Rocks blog.

I will be previewing Ep248 when the AAFP President will be talking about AAFP's Primary Care Valuation Task Force and the recent decision of the AAFP to stay in the RUC which is the Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee. What is the RUC and why is it important to Family Physicians? I'll try to break it down for you as this stuff really gets me confused as well sometimes...

My guest will be Dr. Michelle Quiogue who helped spread the word about the potential closing of the Family Medicine Residency program at Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, California. We'll talk about the Family Medicine and community response to this announcement. A real tribute to the power of the #FMRevolution and Family Medicine Advocacy. Hope you can join us

Drunk podcasting? I'll be talking with my co-host @Warrior_Kat about that and topics from the past week, including calls from Kimmie, Billy, and Burl. Topics included going to the prom, St. Patrick's Day, and past days broadcasting here in BlogTalkRadio...

Commentary including the following stories: 1) Are med students turning to prostitution to pay for tuition? 2) California hospital looking to close Family Medicine Residency program 3) Challenging AAFP state chapters to send New Physician delegate to May's NCSC meeting 4) Remembering Chardon High School tragedy