Factbook 2.0 Episode 2: The Design and Compilation

So how did you get involved or hear about the Factbook 2.0? Now, there was the original Factbook that had some data that came out from, I think it was like 2022 or so, or...

And so now they're going to do another edition of that.

So how did you get introduced to that?

Well, it was the decision to revamp and do another edition of the fact book came out of sort of two major things that occurred just as I was finishing residency and starting here at the fellowship.

One was the decision was made, you know, from an evaluation lens that this was actually really useful for people.

not just for family physicians, but for educators, for community members, for policymakers.

And then the second, you know, component of that was, you know, having somebody coming on board that has the bandwidth to sort of work this project and manage it.

Our initial Family Medicine Factbook was led by a CPV fellow.

And so there is some tradition associated with that, which I love.

But it is also, you know, just a tremendous learning opportunity from a project management standpoint, from a from a data perspective in terms of why the fact book is so special to our to family medicine.

Right.

And where all of that data comes from and why.

it is so applicable and why it is such a rich source of information that for someone like me in a family medicine fellowship to have the opportunity to work with all of this and work with all of these people that are going to be involved in it, it's a tremendous opportunity.

yeah you use the word tremendous there tremendous opportunity but it sounds like a tremendous amount of work can you kind of help our viewers understand the process of developing this fact book 2.0 the time frame how you know who who's all involved with the second edition for the uh fact book

So right now, this is a team-based effort amongst several different departments within the Board of Family Medicine.

The nidus of this about year-long project is the data that supports the fact book.

The fact book is, you know, a...

It is a product that is based off of all of the survey data that the Board of Family Medicine collects from its diplomates, from its family physicians at different points in their careers.

And we've used this data for hundreds of research projects and publications.

And the fact book is an opportunity to take that data and distill it down to something that is digestible, not only for family physicians, but also to those other folks, community members, educators, policymakers.

And that involves several different teams, right? It involves your, your data teams, right? It involves the folks that are making sure that that is reliable and robust so that you can talk about it.

It involves our folks that are writing.

So we have a team of family physicians who are leaders in the national space who are taking that information and saying, with my understanding of family medicine as a specialty and where I am as a, family physician, this is what I think is really important and needs to be communicated to folks.

This involves family medicine leadership who are saying, okay, what of this information do we want to make sure is understood by our family medicine diplomates? What trends in family medicine are key? And then it involves our communications team.

who have to say, okay, you all did such a good job of developing from this massive information source the most important points to communicate out, but how are we going to get that information out there? Are we going to build a website? Are we going to be going to conferences? Are we going to be engaging with medical educators? How are we going to engage with policymakers? So everybody in this group of teams here plays a part on this larger project.