Who Will Deliver the Babies? Identifying and Addressing Barriers

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.