Home Research Research Library Historic Growth Rates Vary Widely Across the Primary Care Physician Disciplines Historic Growth Rates Vary Widely Across the Primary Care Physician Disciplines 2013 Author(s) Makaroff, Laura A, Green, Larry A, Petterson, Stephen M, Puffer, James C, Phillips, Robert L, and Bazemore, Andrew W Topic(s) Role of Primary Care, Achieving Health System Goals, and What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) Shortage Areas, and Supply / Projections Volume American Family Physician Source American Family Physician Nested within a 40-year trend of specialty-to-population growth outpacing that of primary care is variability in the rate of expansion within the different primary care disciplines.1 With continued population aging trends, low annual birth rate, and expected health insurance expansion, it is vital that physician workforce policy be aimed at meeting population needs to deliver optimal primary care. Family medicine, general internal medicine, and general pediatrics comprise the majority of the primary care physician workforce in the United States. To better understand trends in the primary care physician workforce, we have examined the growth of family physicians, general pediatricians, and general internists providing direct patient care. ABFM Research Read all 2014 Effectiveness over efficiency: underestimating the primary care physician shortage Go to Effectiveness over efficiency: underestimating the primary care physician shortage 2025 Documentation of Compounded GLP‐1 Receptor Agonists in a Large Primary Care Dataset Go to Documentation of Compounded GLP‐1 Receptor Agonists in a Large Primary Care Dataset 2019 Physician Burnout and Higher Clinic Capacity to Address Patients’ Social needs Go to Physician Burnout and Higher Clinic Capacity to Address Patients’ Social needs 2020 The Dilution of Family Medicine: Waning Numbers of Family Physicians Providing Pediatric Care Go to The Dilution of Family Medicine: Waning Numbers of Family Physicians Providing Pediatric Care
Author(s) Makaroff, Laura A, Green, Larry A, Petterson, Stephen M, Puffer, James C, Phillips, Robert L, and Bazemore, Andrew W Topic(s) Role of Primary Care, Achieving Health System Goals, and What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) Shortage Areas, and Supply / Projections Volume American Family Physician Source American Family Physician
ABFM Research Read all 2014 Effectiveness over efficiency: underestimating the primary care physician shortage Go to Effectiveness over efficiency: underestimating the primary care physician shortage 2025 Documentation of Compounded GLP‐1 Receptor Agonists in a Large Primary Care Dataset Go to Documentation of Compounded GLP‐1 Receptor Agonists in a Large Primary Care Dataset 2019 Physician Burnout and Higher Clinic Capacity to Address Patients’ Social needs Go to Physician Burnout and Higher Clinic Capacity to Address Patients’ Social needs 2020 The Dilution of Family Medicine: Waning Numbers of Family Physicians Providing Pediatric Care Go to The Dilution of Family Medicine: Waning Numbers of Family Physicians Providing Pediatric Care
2014 Effectiveness over efficiency: underestimating the primary care physician shortage Go to Effectiveness over efficiency: underestimating the primary care physician shortage
2025 Documentation of Compounded GLP‐1 Receptor Agonists in a Large Primary Care Dataset Go to Documentation of Compounded GLP‐1 Receptor Agonists in a Large Primary Care Dataset
2019 Physician Burnout and Higher Clinic Capacity to Address Patients’ Social needs Go to Physician Burnout and Higher Clinic Capacity to Address Patients’ Social needs
2020 The Dilution of Family Medicine: Waning Numbers of Family Physicians Providing Pediatric Care Go to The Dilution of Family Medicine: Waning Numbers of Family Physicians Providing Pediatric Care
