FPIN Family Physicians Inquiries Network

Today we celebrate Match Day 2026!

Congratulations to all incoming family medicine residents! Your dedication, resilience, and commitment to patient care have led you to this moment. We look forward to the impact you’ll make in communities across the country.

Kicking off the new year with a phenomenal workshop at University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria! The Family Medicine Residency Program showcased impressive skills during our HDA writing workshop, setting a promising tone for the year 🎉

We are thrilled to be presenting another critical appraisal workshop at the beautiful Virginia Mason FMR in Bremerton, Washington. Reach out to our membership department if you’d like us to visit your residency program. Or, better yet, apply for a workshop scholarship at www.fpin.org. We want to support as many programs as we can with this great curriculum!

We’re so excited to kick off the “GEMs to HDA Pilot #2” to study FPIN’s progressive curriculum at the Medical College of Wisconsin with the support of Dr. Seth Kramer. It was a great success and we look forward to sharing the results in the coming months!

Happy 2-year FPIN anniversary to Adalayna Schrimpf! Membership Manager, website extraordinaire, and the person you can always rely on in the office for a reason to smile, Adalayna started her journey at FPIN as an intern and now is the point of contact for all of our members.

Adalayna, your hard work ethic and positive attitude are so appreciated by the team! Not a day goes by without compliments from our members regarding your helpfulness, too. Happy happy two year anniversary!! ✌🏼🎉🥳 (also, LuShawna Gerdes and Layna did not plan their coordinating outfits today. Just shows how in sync they are!!)

Does aerobic exercise reduce the risk of developing hypertensive disorders in pregnancy?

This clinical question was tackled by the dedicated team at the of Missouri Family Medicine Residency, and their evidence-based answer is now published as a Help Desk Answer in Evidence Based Practice!

🔍 What’s a Help Desk Answer (HDA)?
HDAs are concise, peer-reviewed research articles written by faculty and residents from family medicine programs across the country. Each HDA answers a real-world clinical question using current, patient-oriented evidence—and helps clinicians around the world make better decisions at the point of care. Explore this impactful work here: https://journals.lww.com/ebp/pages/currenttoc.aspx

Please join us in wishing Jane Baque a happy birthday! Chances are that if you've engaged in an FPIN writing project, you've heard from Jane. She's helped push your GEM or HDA manuscript along, supported Priority Updates in Research Literature by managing the Surveillance Team, and just about whatever else is needed. FPIN is grateful for her dedication and supportive spirit! In Jane's words:

"I love that the mission of the organization is rooted in both publication and education, and has found a unique and worthwhile way to combine both into impactful opportunities for members to contribute to the literature. I feel fortunate to be part of a community that is striving for the best in practice."

Incredible Help Desk Answers featured in this issue written by the team at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. They answer the question: In patients with prediabetes, does metformin decrease the mortality rate compared with placebo? Shout out to the authors Charla Allen, MD, Kayden Barber, MD, Brian Mallory, MD, and Annalee Toti, MD for their hard work on this project.

The new issue of AFP is available! Read it now: https://bit.ly/4lxEKzm

Stay sharp with our latest GEMs curated just for busy primary care clinicians.

This week, we’re proud to spotlight Puyallup Tribal Health Authority FMRP in Tacoma, WA—thank you for your dedication to advancing clinical knowledge and improving patient care!

📬 Check out the latest GEMs of the week in your inbox or visit FPIN.org to read more.

We’re honored to be featured in the University of Missouri Family Medicine Residency's "Family Medicine at MU: the First 50 Years", a book celebrating their long-standing commitment to innovation and academic excellence.

The Department of Family and Community Medicine at Mizzou played a pivotal role in the founding of FPIN, and we’re proud to be part of that legacy. We are deeply grateful to the many leaders, faculty, and supporters—past and present—whose vision helped launch and sustain our mission.

Thank you, University of Missouri Family Medicine Residency, for your continued partnership and support of evidence-based medicine. Your contributions have helped shape FPIN into what it is today!

It’s been just over a week since we launched QI Coach+, and the excitement is still going strong!

Have you and your team had a chance to explore the modules? What questions have come up so far? If you're not yet a member of FPIN, we’d love to hear what you and your institution want to know, so feel free to drop your questions in the comments below.