November-December 2026 Vol. 58 No. 10
EDITORIAL
The Impact of Educational Debt on Family Medicine
Bryce A. Ringwald, MD | Nataliya Pilipenko, PhD, ABPP | José E. Rodríguez, MD, FAAFP
COMMENTARIES
Five Is Not Enough: The Case for Tiered Program Signals in Family Medicine Residency Applications
Morgan S. White, MD | Wayne W. Bryant, MD, MS | Jessica Mitchum, DO, MS | Brittany N. Watson, MD, MPH | Andres L. Rodriguez, MD
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Residency Features Linked to Family Medicine Graduates’ Inpatient and Critical Care Practice: An Outcomes Project Study
Brandon D. Brown, MD | Sarah Fleischer, MS | Lisa D. Mims, MD, MSCR | Alec DeCastro, MD | Wendy B. Barr, MD, MPH, MSCE
Improving Feedback From Residents to Preceptors: A Quality Improvement Project
Allen F. Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd | Omar Wahid, MD | Danielle Blanch-Hartigan, PhD, MPH | Laura Miller, PhD | Joshua Passarelli | Randi Sokol, MD, MPH, MMedEd | Judy Fleishman, PhD
Differences in Educational Debt Among Family Medicine Residents: An In-Depth Analysis
Julie P. Phillips, MD, MPH, HALM | Andrea L. Wendling, MD | Kaplan Sanders, PhD | Zhou Yang, PhD | Jennifer Edwards-Johnson, DO, MPH | Zachary J. Morgan, MS | Andrew W. Bazemore, MD, MPH | Lars E. Peterson, MD, PhD
Intentional Rural GME: A Study of Competency Needs for Rural Family Medicine
David F. Schmitz, MD | Annie Koempel, PhD, RD | Andrew W. Bazemore, MD, MPH
Variation in Family Medicine Resident Reports of Burnout by Survey Context
Sydney Doe, MD | Sarah Owens, MS | Lars E. Peterson, MD, PhD
BRIEF REPORTS
A Personal Finance Curriculum to Promote Resident Financial Well-Being
Stacy Bartlett, MD
Integrating Pharmacotherapy Into SBIRT for Alcohol Use Disorder in Family Medicine
Ellen Barry, MD, MS | Gretchen Shelesky, MD, MS | Frank D’Amico, PhD
Education on Vaccine Hesitancy in Family Medicine Clerkships: A CERA Study
Kelly McGuigan, MD, MS | Maria Syl D. de la Cruz, MD | William T. Leach, MA | Kento Sonoda, MD, MPH
Association Between Rural Attitudes in Family Medicine Residency and Rural Employment
Bryan Hodge, DO | Julianne M. Power, PhD, MS | Gwyneth DeHart, MHA | Kylie Agee, MPA | Bailey Leaphart, BS | Daniel Yoder, MD | Benjamin Gilmer, MD, MS
NARRATIVE ESSAYS
Human Purring
David V. Power, MBBS, MPH
Grammars of the Clinical Encounter: A Universal Language of Care
Guilherme Coelho, MD, MSc
On Pride Lost
Shelby R. Hahn, MD
Weight Stigma Internalization in the Medical School Curriculum
Cathleen Beliveau, MD, MPH
I Just Don’t Feel Like Myself
Vangipuram Harshil Sai | Vangipuram Sai Shreya, MBBS
The Language of Medicine
Benjamin Popokh, MD
BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS
Losing Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Family’s Search for Hope (10th Anniversary Edition)
Elizabeth C. Halloran, PhD
Finding Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia: An End to the Search
Elizabeth C. Halloran, PhD
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance and Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Esther Strahan, PhD
FAMILY MEDICINE FOCUS
Building Resident Leaders Through Quality Improvement
Fa'iz Bayo-Awoyemi, MD | Judy Fleishman, PhD
Physician-Learner Boundaries
Victoria Hayes, MD | Lauren Boehm, MD | Jill Husson Martinez, MD