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Home Research Research Library Who Will Deliver the Babies? Identifying and Addressing Barriers Who Will Deliver the Babies? Identifying and Addressing Barriers 2017 Author(s) Rayburn, William F Topic(s) What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) Maternity Care Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine The policy brief in this JABFM issue reinforces the low percentage of new family medicine graduates who intend to perform obstetric deliveries, and that only 7% of all family physicians currently do so.1 These impressions, gathered from the American Board of Family Medicine Family Medicine Certification examination application questionnaire completed by applicants from 2014 to 2016, were also evident from publications by Nesbitt et al,2 Tong and colleagues,3 and Rayburn and associates,4 which span a 30-year period. ABFM Research Read all 2021 Family Physicians Ability to Perform Cesarean Sections Can Reduce Maternal and Infant Mortality Go to Family Physicians Ability to Perform Cesarean Sections Can Reduce Maternal and Infant Mortality 2012 Proportion of family physicians providing maternity care continues to decline Go to Proportion of family physicians providing maternity care continues to decline 2020 Why Are Early Career Family Physicians Driving Increases in Buprenorphine Prescribing? Go to Why Are Early Career Family Physicians Driving Increases in Buprenorphine Prescribing? 2014 Colocating Behavioral Health and Primary Care and the Prospects for an Integrated Workforce. Go to Colocating Behavioral Health and Primary Care and the Prospects for an Integrated Workforce.
Author(s) Rayburn, William F Topic(s) What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) Maternity Care Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2021 Family Physicians Ability to Perform Cesarean Sections Can Reduce Maternal and Infant Mortality Go to Family Physicians Ability to Perform Cesarean Sections Can Reduce Maternal and Infant Mortality 2012 Proportion of family physicians providing maternity care continues to decline Go to Proportion of family physicians providing maternity care continues to decline 2020 Why Are Early Career Family Physicians Driving Increases in Buprenorphine Prescribing? Go to Why Are Early Career Family Physicians Driving Increases in Buprenorphine Prescribing? 2014 Colocating Behavioral Health and Primary Care and the Prospects for an Integrated Workforce. Go to Colocating Behavioral Health and Primary Care and the Prospects for an Integrated Workforce.
2021 Family Physicians Ability to Perform Cesarean Sections Can Reduce Maternal and Infant Mortality Go to Family Physicians Ability to Perform Cesarean Sections Can Reduce Maternal and Infant Mortality
2012 Proportion of family physicians providing maternity care continues to decline Go to Proportion of family physicians providing maternity care continues to decline
2020 Why Are Early Career Family Physicians Driving Increases in Buprenorphine Prescribing? Go to Why Are Early Career Family Physicians Driving Increases in Buprenorphine Prescribing?
2014 Colocating Behavioral Health and Primary Care and the Prospects for an Integrated Workforce. Go to Colocating Behavioral Health and Primary Care and the Prospects for an Integrated Workforce.
