Diplomate Spotlight Opening Doors with Board Certification: A Conversation with Long Standing Diplomate Joseph Cook Read Opening Doors with Board Certification: A Conversation with Long Standing Diplomate Joseph Cook
Phoenix Newsletter - July 2025 Available Now: 2026 5-Year Cycle Registration Read Available Now: 2026 5-Year Cycle Registration
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. Read More ABFM Research Read all 2016 Access to Primary Care in US Counties Is Associated with Lower Obesity Rates Go to Access to Primary Care in US Counties Is Associated with Lower Obesity Rates 2014 Factors influencing family physicians’ contribution to the child health care workforce Go to Factors influencing family physicians’ contribution to the child health care workforce 2022 Informing Equity & Diversity in Primary Care Policy and Practice: Introducing a New Series of Policy Briefs, Commentaries, and Voices in JABFM Go to Informing Equity & Diversity in Primary Care Policy and Practice: Introducing a New Series of Policy Briefs, Commentaries, and Voices in JABFM 2024 Self-Reported Panel Size Among Family Physicians Declined by Over 25% Over a Decade (2013-2022) Go to Self-Reported Panel Size Among Family Physicians Declined by Over 25% Over a Decade (2013-2022)
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 2016 Access to Primary Care in US Counties Is Associated with Lower Obesity Rates Go to Access to Primary Care in US Counties Is Associated with Lower Obesity Rates 2014 Factors influencing family physicians’ contribution to the child health care workforce Go to Factors influencing family physicians’ contribution to the child health care workforce 2022 Informing Equity & Diversity in Primary Care Policy and Practice: Introducing a New Series of Policy Briefs, Commentaries, and Voices in JABFM Go to Informing Equity & Diversity in Primary Care Policy and Practice: Introducing a New Series of Policy Briefs, Commentaries, and Voices in JABFM 2024 Self-Reported Panel Size Among Family Physicians Declined by Over 25% Over a Decade (2013-2022) Go to Self-Reported Panel Size Among Family Physicians Declined by Over 25% Over a Decade (2013-2022)
2016 Access to Primary Care in US Counties Is Associated with Lower Obesity Rates Go to Access to Primary Care in US Counties Is Associated with Lower Obesity Rates
2014 Factors influencing family physicians’ contribution to the child health care workforce Go to Factors influencing family physicians’ contribution to the child health care workforce
2022 Informing Equity & Diversity in Primary Care Policy and Practice: Introducing a New Series of Policy Briefs, Commentaries, and Voices in JABFM Go to Informing Equity & Diversity in Primary Care Policy and Practice: Introducing a New Series of Policy Briefs, Commentaries, and Voices in JABFM
2024 Self-Reported Panel Size Among Family Physicians Declined by Over 25% Over a Decade (2013-2022) Go to Self-Reported Panel Size Among Family Physicians Declined by Over 25% Over a Decade (2013-2022)
