New Physician Resources

For the first years of your journey in family medicine, lean into an array of information and tools designed to address your needs and help you navigate your career.

Keep Up on Your Clinical Expertise

Latest Clinical Guidance and Recommendations

Land Your Best Job

Job Search Resources

• How to Write a CV
  Make your CV stand out with these formatting tips and example headings.

• Members Only: Know Your Worth
  Looking for your next job? Get armed with real data just for family physicians—including compensation, benefits, and more.

• Career Coaching for Physicians
  Working with a career coach can help you discover your ideal role, get back on track after a setback, and even improve your well-being.

Negotiating Employment Contracts

• How to Choose a Lawyer
  Know what questions to ask an attorney before you hire one to review your contract.

• How to Review Your Contract
  Use a checklist to determine whether your contract is missing something important.

• How to Negotiate a Contract
  Get tips for successfully negotiating, and learn important changes to ask for.

Free Employment Contracting Guide and Checklist

• Your Guide to Employment Contracts
  Members only: Learn the provisions and elements of contracts and the employment contract process.

• Your Employment Contract Checklist
  Members only: Review your contract and negotiate the best opportunity for your career.

Managing Your Practice

Practice Resources

• A Practice Management Resource for You
  For many new physicians, the area of practice management is new and exciting territory. Use the FPM Journal for information and ideas to improve your practice, your patients' experience, and your career.

• Telehealth and Telemedicine
  A library of tools and resources from videos to coding tables to help you start or refine your patient telehealth offerings.

• Business Fundamentals for New Physicians – Earn 14 CME Credits Online
  Learn the principles of practice management and how to navigate the business side of medicine.

Value-Based Payment

• 9 Reasons to Try Value-based Payment
  Family physicians give the top nine reasons why you should implement value-based payment.

• The Role of Care Management & Coordination in Value-based Payment
  The care management components you and your team will need to perform to meet the goals of value-based payment.

Coding and Payments

• Behavioral Health Integration
  Care management and payment for patients with mental health issues.

• Evaluation and Management
  Reduce your stress with accurate documentation and coding.

• Prior Authorization Practice Hack
  Learn quick tips that help reduce the burdens of prior authorizations.

Starting Your Own Practice

• Do you dream of starting a practice?
  Download this tool to get your arms around start-up expenses, monthly budgets, and revenue management.

• Your Practice Finances
  Learn how to measure the financial health of your practice with this series of short videos.

Connect with Your Peers

• New Physician Issues Online Forum
  Members only: Engage with your peers in a community designed for you to share, learn, inspire, and network.
  
  
• Member Interest Groups (MIGS)
  Members only: Join interest-specific online communities and enjoy collaboration with peers while growing your professional network.

Maintain Your Well-being

Put Your Health First

Build Your Leadership Skills

Leadership Opportunities for You

Practice & Career

Immunizations & Vaccines

According to the CDC, vaccinations will prevent more than 21 million hospitalizations and 730,000 deaths among children born in the last 20 years.¹ For every $1 invested in vaccines, an estimated $10.20 is saved in direct medical costs.² But more patient education is needed to improve vaccination rates. The LAFP offers resources to help you care for your patients from birth to advanced age. These include current immunization schedules, clinical recommendations, patient education resources and information on vaccine-preventable diseases.