Beyond the Clinic Family Medicine on a Mission Part 1: How Air Force Physicians Achieve Humanitarian Goals Read Family Medicine on a Mission Part 1: How Air Force Physicians Achieve Humanitarian Goals
Phoenix Newsletter - March 2025 President’s Message: ABFM’s Unwavering Commitment to Diplomates and the Specialty Read President’s Message: ABFM’s Unwavering Commitment to Diplomates and the Specialty
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 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 2012 ABFM Examination Asthma Item Performance and Asthma Prevention Quality Indicators in Kentucky Go to ABFM Examination Asthma Item Performance and Asthma Prevention Quality Indicators in Kentucky 2023 Healthcare Workforce Implications of Physician Student Loan Repayment Funding Go to Healthcare Workforce Implications of Physician Student Loan Repayment Funding 2016 Intended vs Reported Scope of Practice–Reply Go to Intended vs Reported Scope of Practice–Reply
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 Factors influencing family physicians’ contribution to the child health care workforce Go to Factors influencing family physicians’ contribution to the child health care workforce 2012 ABFM Examination Asthma Item Performance and Asthma Prevention Quality Indicators in Kentucky Go to ABFM Examination Asthma Item Performance and Asthma Prevention Quality Indicators in Kentucky 2023 Healthcare Workforce Implications of Physician Student Loan Repayment Funding Go to Healthcare Workforce Implications of Physician Student Loan Repayment Funding 2016 Intended vs Reported Scope of Practice–Reply Go to Intended vs Reported Scope of Practice–Reply
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
2012 ABFM Examination Asthma Item Performance and Asthma Prevention Quality Indicators in Kentucky Go to ABFM Examination Asthma Item Performance and Asthma Prevention Quality Indicators in Kentucky
2023 Healthcare Workforce Implications of Physician Student Loan Repayment Funding Go to Healthcare Workforce Implications of Physician Student Loan Repayment Funding
