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Home Research Research Library Transforming Training to Build the Family Physician Workforce Our Country Needs Transforming Training to Build the Family Physician Workforce Our Country Needs 2015 Author(s) Hughes, Lauren S, Tuggy, Michael L, Pugno, Perry A, Peterson, Lars E, Brungardt, S H, Hoekzema, Grant S, Jones, S M, Weida, Jane A, and Bazemore, Andrew W Topic(s) Education & Training, Family Medicine Certification, Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Cost Of Care, Graduate Medical Education, Payment, Quality Of Care, and Self-Assessment And Lifelong Learning Volume Family Medicine Source Family Medicine BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The Affordable Care Act has spurred significant change in the US health care system, including expansion of Medicaid and private insurance coverage to millions of Americans. As a result, the need for the medical education continuum to produce a family physician workforce that is sizable enough and highly skilled is significant. These two interdependent goals have emerged as top priorities for Family Medicine for America’s Health, a new, 5-year, $21 million collaborative strategic effort of the eight US family medicine organizations to lead continued change in the US health care system. To achieve these important goals, reforms are needed across the entire educational continuum, including how we recruit, train, and help practicing family physicians refresh their skills. Such reforms must provide opportunities to acquire skills needed in new practice and payment environments, to incorporate new educational standards that reflect the public’s expectations of family physicians, to collaborate with our primary care colleagues to develop effective interprofessional training, and to design educational programs that are socially accountable to the patients, families, and communities we serve. Through Family Medicine for America’s Health, the discipline is well positioned to emerge as a leader in primary care workforce development and educational quality. ABFM Research Read all 2025 The General Public Vastly Overestimates Primary Care Spending in the United States Go to The General Public Vastly Overestimates Primary Care Spending in the United States 2018 Rural Family Physicians in Patient Centered Medical Homes Have a Broader Scope of Practice Go to Rural Family Physicians in Patient Centered Medical Homes Have a Broader Scope of Practice 2024 Community-Based Primary Care Training Is Threatened By Funding Instability Go to Community-Based Primary Care Training Is Threatened By Funding Instability 2014 Improving quality of care for diabetes through a maintenance of certification activity: family physicians’ use of the chronic care model Go to Improving quality of care for diabetes through a maintenance of certification activity: family physicians’ use of the chronic care model
Author(s) Hughes, Lauren S, Tuggy, Michael L, Pugno, Perry A, Peterson, Lars E, Brungardt, S H, Hoekzema, Grant S, Jones, S M, Weida, Jane A, and Bazemore, Andrew W Topic(s) Education & Training, Family Medicine Certification, Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Cost Of Care, Graduate Medical Education, Payment, Quality Of Care, and Self-Assessment And Lifelong Learning Volume Family Medicine Source Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2025 The General Public Vastly Overestimates Primary Care Spending in the United States Go to The General Public Vastly Overestimates Primary Care Spending in the United States 2018 Rural Family Physicians in Patient Centered Medical Homes Have a Broader Scope of Practice Go to Rural Family Physicians in Patient Centered Medical Homes Have a Broader Scope of Practice 2024 Community-Based Primary Care Training Is Threatened By Funding Instability Go to Community-Based Primary Care Training Is Threatened By Funding Instability 2014 Improving quality of care for diabetes through a maintenance of certification activity: family physicians’ use of the chronic care model Go to Improving quality of care for diabetes through a maintenance of certification activity: family physicians’ use of the chronic care model
2025 The General Public Vastly Overestimates Primary Care Spending in the United States Go to The General Public Vastly Overestimates Primary Care Spending in the United States
2018 Rural Family Physicians in Patient Centered Medical Homes Have a Broader Scope of Practice Go to Rural Family Physicians in Patient Centered Medical Homes Have a Broader Scope of Practice
2024 Community-Based Primary Care Training Is Threatened By Funding Instability Go to Community-Based Primary Care Training Is Threatened By Funding Instability
2014 Improving quality of care for diabetes through a maintenance of certification activity: family physicians’ use of the chronic care model Go to Improving quality of care for diabetes through a maintenance of certification activity: family physicians’ use of the chronic care model
