Bill Phillips

I spent most of my teaching career worrying about how many medical students become family physicians. Now, I am worried about how many family physicians become family physicians. See my comment on Dr. Gravel's essay in Family Medicine. journals.stfm.org/familymedicine…

@DictionDr Translation guide - practical, simple, citable Phillips WR, Sturgiss EA. The CRISP translation guide for research reporting guidelines. Ann Fam Med 2026, 24 (1) 60-64; DOI: 10.1370/afm.250152 doi.org/10.1370/afm.25… #GlobalHealth #CRISP @EQUATORNetwork @AnnFamMed

@DictionDr Enhance more research with more voices. Add CONTEXTperts to your research team. Phillips WR. Enhancing health research teams with CONTEXTperts. J Clin Trans Sci. 2026;10(1):e13. doi:10.1017/cts.2025.10229 doi.org/10.1017/cts.20….

Family medicine commands a suite of superpowers: relationship-based, patient-centered, whole-person care for all. journals.stfm.org/familymedicine…

Engage more voices in more studies by adding CONTEXTperts to your research team. Enhancing health research teams with CONTEXTperts | Journal of Clinical and Translational Science | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3YUleDm

FAMILY MEDICINE FOCUS Team Writing Etiquette in VERSE journals.stfm.org/familymedicine… See the eComment for a Meta-Verse.

Family medicine commands a suite of superpowers: relationship-based, patient-centered, whole-person care for all. journals.stfm.org/familymedicine…

This study examined national prescription dispensing data, identifying signals of potential prescribing cascades among older-community dwelling adults in Ireland. Read full article here: annfammed.org/content/23/4/3… Listen to the Annals Podcast here: annfammed.org/content/annals…

Phillips WR. Just a GP: Diaries from a Career in General Practice. Fam Med. doi.org/10.22454/FamMe… Review of Denis Pereira Gray autobiography. "In the quiet moments of a consultation, I find the heart of medicine; it is here where trust is built and healing begins.

NAPCRG Phillips Futures Fellowship - nominations now open Do you know a colleague - any profession, academic field, nation, career stage, or research role - who demonstrates creativity and promise in primary care research? Nomination deadline 8/27/2025. napcrg.org/programs/phill…

When "primary care" is discussed by med schools, it should be mostly Family Medicine, half ofPediatrics and (barely) Internal Med: Pathways To Primary Care: Charting Trajectories From Medical School Graduation Through Specialty Training | Health Affairs healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.137…

New Lancet Primary Care journal endorses the CRISP Checklist for reporting primary care research. Phillips WR, Sturgiss EA.CRISP Checklist advances primary care through responsive research reporting. Lancet Prim Care 2025; 1: 100003. doi.org/10.1016/j.lanp…

The new LANCET PRIMARY CARE, in its inaugural issue, endorses the CRISP Checklist for reporting primary care research. Phillips WR, Sturgiss EA.CRISP Checklist advances primary care through responsive research reporting. Lancet Prim Care 2025; 1: 100003. doi.org/10.1016/j.lanp…

What specialty produces most PC physicians? PRIMARY CARE YIELD: IM - 35.5%, Peds - 54.4%. Family Medicine - 97%. Phillips WR, Park J, Topmiller M. Pathways to primary care... Health Affairs (Millwood.) 2005. 44(5):580–588. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2024.00893

In Family Medicine, our scope of practice is our identity and our destiny. Please see my comment on Dr. Gravel's editorial in Family Medicine: journals.stfm.org/familymedicine…

A 2-minute précis of what got us here

Peace Arch Park at the Canada–USA border

Not every day that an internationally renown novelist post something like this.

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