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About FPIN
FPIN was conceptualized in May 1998 as part of the Research Center development in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU) and initially funded through a grant from the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). Seven additional leading departments in family medicine stepped forward to provide the additional leadership and funding the concept would need to take shape.
In April 2001, FPIN was incorporated as a self-governing non-profit educational consortium. Though staff offices remain in Columbia, Missouri, the consortium is an independent body governed for the benefit of its membership and the family medicine community. FPIN has thrived as a grassroots community of healthcare professionals driven to create a revolution in medicine.
FPIN Community
FPIN is a community of inclusion that is committed to engaging every organization and individual who wishes to join us in revolutionizing primary care practice. As the community grows with faculty physicians, resident physicians and other practicing clinicians each of us benefits from the contributions of practitioners asking questions, providing clinical perspective, and participating in research; scholars writing reviews of the evidence and publishing them in the FPIN Clinical Inquiries series; and researchers in primary care, health services, library science, informatics and computer science answering critical questions necessary to translate research into practice at the point of care.
At the present time the primary focus of the network is developing valuable benefits for family medicine departments, family medicine residency programs and medical librarians/health sciences libraries. In the future, we hope to create benefits tailored to the needs of primary care practice based research networks.
The FPIN community is sustained through the voluntary contributions of members, through grants and contracts and through membership fees. FPIN membership is open to all academically oriented organizations with interest in being active participants in pursuing the mission of the community. FPIN is currently composed of Founding Members and Organizational Members. All members benefit from access to information sources, the opportunity for scholarly publication and research. Founding Member Departments provide leadership in the community and each holds a voting position on the FPIN Board of Directors.
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