Homepage contents

• Family Practice - Definitions, statistics, Government advocacy, AAFP Policies (searchable policies, press releases, Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies), International Family Medicine, Rural Health Exchange
• Clinical Information - Drug database (members only), Research (guidelines, grant sources) Clinical Policies (18 items, detailed and downloadable in PDF), Public Health (teams and school health) AFP Journal (fully searchable back to 1996, online to 1997, PDF 2001, includes quizzes, cases, monographs, algorithms, index, 'coming soon', email preview and patient information), Annual Clinical Focus and 'Join Email Discussion Lists'
• CME - Online CME (including lectures, quizzes, cases monographs [as above] video [fee USD8 members USD10 non-members, requires RealPlayer and Acrobat Reader]), courses, records, CME offerings, conferences and packages
• Practice Management - Coding, Resources, Family Practice Management Journal (online and searchable back to 1996), Fundamentals of Management, Safety Guidelines, and other items
• About the AAFP - News, Policies, Meetings, Organization, Offices, Staff Opportunities and other items
• Products and Services - Meetings, Catalogue (with online search and ordering), CME, Publications and Tar Wars Program
• Publications - News, Journals, AAFP Directories, Catalogue, AAFP Health and Medical Guide (order facilities), Facts about Family Practice, 'Patient Education in your Practice Handbook' (contents and order facilities)
• Career Opportunities - Becoming a Family Physician, Online opportunities, AAFP staff opportunities
• Daily Question - One question and answer
• Practice Pearl - Single statement
• What's New - Reference to AFP article
• AFP Online cases - Free access to 7 cases (two assessed - cardiovascular risk factors and heart murmurs for which audio was provided), limited interactivity, mostly information (which is useful), cases are scored, but for CME credit USD5 for members USD7 non-members
• Members - Members only (news, messages, drug database, Catalogue, Membership Directory, Budget Deficit Reduction Suggestions, Bulletin Board, Lonesome Doc Service, Quality Enhancement Program and Email discussion lists)
• Patients - Gives access to 'familydoctor.org' which provides Health Information Handouts, AAFP Family Health Facts (60), Drug Information (provided by MICROMEDEX, searchable, including interactions), Self Care (45 items downloadable), FP Web Directory to locate local family physicians by State, Herbal and Alternative Remedies (also MICROMEDEX), Dictionary, Daily Health Tip and Featured Items (site searchable)
• Residents - A variety of items to encourage and inform those interested in family practice residencies
• Students - Family Medicine Interest Group ('Virtual' searchable site)
• Media - Releases, Health Research Issues, Publications, Statements, AAFP Officers and other items

This is a very large website that houses around 150,000 pages. It is well organized and easy to use and the whole site is searchable.