Home Research Research Library Declining Presence of Family Physicians in Hospital-Based Care: A Major Concern or Totally Makes Sense? Declining Presence of Family Physicians in Hospital-Based Care: A Major Concern or Totally Makes Sense? 2019 Author(s) Carek, Peter J Topic(s) Education & Training, Role of Primary Care, Achieving Health System Goals, and What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) Continuing Certification Questionnaire, Graduate Medical Education, Policy Brief Commentaries, Practice Organization / Ownership, and Quality Of Care Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Comprehensiveness along with continuity, coordination, and first contact serve as the 4 pillars of primary care.1 Because of their training, family physicians (FPs) are specialists qualified to treat most ailments and provide comprehensive health care to people of all ages.2 This comprehensive care to patients regardless of setting is an integral aspect of a highly functioning primary care system. In this issue, Jetty et al3 provide additional evidence demonstrating the contracting scope, or comprehensiveness, of practice by FPs. Data from the 2013 to 2017 American Board of Family Medicine Certification Examination Registration Questionnaire was used to examine trends in hospital care. Among over 46,000 respondents, the share of FPs reporting hospital care decreased by about 26%, from 34.1% in 2013 to 25.2% in 2017. Basically, this policy brief indicates that the proportion of FPs providing inpatient care has decreased since 2013, leaving approximately 1 in 4 FPs practicing hospital medicine. As noted by the authors and observed in other services often associated with comprehensive care (ie, prenatal care, home visits, nursing home care, and obstetric care), this new information further supports the evidence demonstrating a contracting scope of practice among FPs.4 ABFM Research Read all 2025 Leveraging Large Language Models to Advance Certification, Physician Learning, and Diagnostic Excellence Go to Leveraging Large Language Models to Advance Certification, Physician Learning, and Diagnostic Excellence 2020 Relationship between the perceived strength of countries’ primary care system and COVID-19 mortality: an international survey study Go to Relationship between the perceived strength of countries’ primary care system and COVID-19 mortality: an international survey study 2021 Family Physician Burnout Does Not Differ With Rurality Go to Family Physician Burnout Does Not Differ With Rurality 2014 Improving quality of care for diabetes through a maintenance of certification activity: family physicians’ use of the chronic care model Go to Improving quality of care for diabetes through a maintenance of certification activity: family physicians’ use of the chronic care model
Author(s) Carek, Peter J Topic(s) Education & Training, Role of Primary Care, Achieving Health System Goals, and What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) Continuing Certification Questionnaire, Graduate Medical Education, Policy Brief Commentaries, Practice Organization / Ownership, and Quality Of Care Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2025 Leveraging Large Language Models to Advance Certification, Physician Learning, and Diagnostic Excellence Go to Leveraging Large Language Models to Advance Certification, Physician Learning, and Diagnostic Excellence 2020 Relationship between the perceived strength of countries’ primary care system and COVID-19 mortality: an international survey study Go to Relationship between the perceived strength of countries’ primary care system and COVID-19 mortality: an international survey study 2021 Family Physician Burnout Does Not Differ With Rurality Go to Family Physician Burnout Does Not Differ With Rurality 2014 Improving quality of care for diabetes through a maintenance of certification activity: family physicians’ use of the chronic care model Go to Improving quality of care for diabetes through a maintenance of certification activity: family physicians’ use of the chronic care model
2025 Leveraging Large Language Models to Advance Certification, Physician Learning, and Diagnostic Excellence Go to Leveraging Large Language Models to Advance Certification, Physician Learning, and Diagnostic Excellence
2020 Relationship between the perceived strength of countries’ primary care system and COVID-19 mortality: an international survey study Go to Relationship between the perceived strength of countries’ primary care system and COVID-19 mortality: an international survey study
2021 Family Physician Burnout Does Not Differ With Rurality Go to Family Physician Burnout Does Not Differ With Rurality
2014 Improving quality of care for diabetes through a maintenance of certification activity: family physicians’ use of the chronic care model Go to Improving quality of care for diabetes through a maintenance of certification activity: family physicians’ use of the chronic care model
