1. Who Practices Family Medicine?
Family physicians are the most widely distributed and the nation’s largest primary care physician specialty, serving communities across the United States and caring for people of all ages, backgrounds, and life circumstances. It is important that we understand who family physicians are before diving into what they do and who they heal.
More than 105,000 ABFM board-certified family physicians, representing a diverse range of educational, personal, and cultural backgrounds, serve patients in nearly all communities across the United States. ABFM remains committed to strengthening and diversifying the family medicine workforce to ensure it reflects and effectively serves the patients and communities it supports.
The term family physicians as used above refers to ABFM board-certified family physicians (Diplomates) and datasets related to ABFM proprietary surveys.
