The Evolving Family Medicine Team

Author(s)

Jabbarpour, Yalda, Jetty, Anuradha, Dai, Mingliang, Magill, Michael K, and Bazemore, Andrew W

Topic(s)

Role of Primary Care

Keyword(s)

Continuing Certification Questionnaire, JABFM Policy Brief, Payment, and Teams

Volume

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

A decade of practice transformation, consolidation, and payment experimentation have highlighted the need for team-based primary care, but little is known about how team composition is changing over time. Surveys of Family Physicians (FPs) from 2014-18 reveal they continue to work alongside inter-professional team members and suggest slow but steady growth in the proportion of FPs working with nurses, behaviorists, clinical pharmacists, and social workers.

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