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Early Career Family Physicians Continue to Provide Maternity Care and Deliver Babies

2026

AUTHOR(S)
Petty, Aerial
Barr, Wendy Brooks
Morgan, Zachary J
Bazemore, Andrew W
TOPIC(S)
Achieving Health System Goals
Role of Primary Care
What Family Physicians Do
KEYWORD(S)
Maternity Care
VOLUME
39(1):159259

While the proportion of all family physicians (FPs) delivering babies has declined, the proportion of early career FPs delivering babies declined at a much slower rate between 2016 and 2023 from 13.1% to 10.2%, and the proportion providing maternity care over this period has slightly increased from 25.0% to 28.9%. As maternal mortality rises, supporting FPs in maternity care is crucial for workforce sustainability and health equity.

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