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Home Research Research Library Family Medicine and Obstetrics: Let’s Stop Pretending Family Medicine and Obstetrics: Let’s Stop Pretending 2018 Author(s) Young, Richard A, and Sundermeyer, R L Topic(s) What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) Maternity Care, and Policy Brief Commentaries Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine It is time to stop pretending that delivering babies is one of the core activities of family medicine. At no time in the history of American family medicine have the majority of the members of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) delivered babies. A study in 1982 found that approximately 44% of family physicians delivered babies1, another study reported 43% in 19862, another 26% in 19933, and the most recent data from the AAFP states the current number is 17.1%.4 The way forward from these trends should not be to continue business as usual. Barreto et al5 found that 13% of 2016 family medicine residency graduates deliver babies. Almost half the respondents were not interested at all in obstetrics practice (889/2018). Of those left who did not deliver babies, 60% mentioned lack of availability of jobs where family physicians in practice deliver babies as the reason and 60% mentioned lifestyle considerations, followed by malpractice costs and privileging challenges. These realities have implications for family medicine residency education and the basket of services provided by its graduates. Read More ABFM Research Read all 2018 Response: Re: Wide Gap between Preparation and Scope of Practice of Early Career Family Physicians Go to Response: Re: Wide Gap between Preparation and Scope of Practice of Early Career Family Physicians 2015 Family physician geriatricians do mostly geriatric care: is this a problem for our specialty? Go to Family physician geriatricians do mostly geriatric care: is this a problem for our specialty? 1979 Panel: “role of the specialist in the emergency room” Go to Panel: “role of the specialist in the emergency room” 2021 A Cross-Sectional Study of Factors Associated With Pediatric Scope of Care in Family Medicine Go to A Cross-Sectional Study of Factors Associated With Pediatric Scope of Care in Family Medicine
Author(s) Young, Richard A, and Sundermeyer, R L Topic(s) What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) Maternity Care, and Policy Brief Commentaries Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2018 Response: Re: Wide Gap between Preparation and Scope of Practice of Early Career Family Physicians Go to Response: Re: Wide Gap between Preparation and Scope of Practice of Early Career Family Physicians 2015 Family physician geriatricians do mostly geriatric care: is this a problem for our specialty? Go to Family physician geriatricians do mostly geriatric care: is this a problem for our specialty? 1979 Panel: “role of the specialist in the emergency room” Go to Panel: “role of the specialist in the emergency room” 2021 A Cross-Sectional Study of Factors Associated With Pediatric Scope of Care in Family Medicine Go to A Cross-Sectional Study of Factors Associated With Pediatric Scope of Care in Family Medicine
2018 Response: Re: Wide Gap between Preparation and Scope of Practice of Early Career Family Physicians Go to Response: Re: Wide Gap between Preparation and Scope of Practice of Early Career Family Physicians
2015 Family physician geriatricians do mostly geriatric care: is this a problem for our specialty? Go to Family physician geriatricians do mostly geriatric care: is this a problem for our specialty?
1979 Panel: “role of the specialist in the emergency room” Go to Panel: “role of the specialist in the emergency room”
2021 A Cross-Sectional Study of Factors Associated With Pediatric Scope of Care in Family Medicine Go to A Cross-Sectional Study of Factors Associated With Pediatric Scope of Care in Family Medicine
