Family Medicine

"The federal government this week awarded $9.1 million to medical students in 30 states and the District of Columbia. The recipients will serve as primary care doctors. As CBS News correspondent Whit Johnson reports, fewer and fewer medical students can afford to become family doctors at a time of growing need."

"As the country faces a projected shortage of 45,000 primary care physicians by the year 2020, osteopathic medical students are stepping up to fill that void. Family medicine continues to be the largest matched specialty among osteopathic medical students, according to the National Matching Services, Inc., which announced the results of the 2012 osteopathic match today."

"How would you describe the state of family medicine 'Strong?' 'Not good?' Or perhaps 'the strongest it has ever been?' It's a complicated question involving multiple factors. This article will examine three important ones."

"The 14 RTTs in this study each graduated an average of two physicians per year. This rate of output is comparable to that of all 24 RTTs nationwide, which collectively matriculate about 45 to 50 new physicians annually."

"Dr. William Durbin believes family medicine is the second-best career in the world. The best? Rural family medicine."

"The first doctor we get to know, the doctor who treats the whole family, and the one we want to be like is our PCP (primary care provider). The current generation of residents can relate to the family doctor who always answered our phone calls day or night, patiently addressed our concerns, greeted us warmly during our clinic visits, and attended our major family events."

"Family doctors are expected to be in short supply across the country and in the Green Bay area, and the Medical College of Wisconsin says creating a campus in Northeastern Wisconsin could help keep physicians in the region."

"The increased attention to the lack of family physicians and other primary care physicians needed to meet the nation's growing needs may have had an effect on medical students' choice of specialty. For the second year in a row, the number of medical students who chose to enter family medicine rose, according to the National Resident Matching Program. In fact, the fill rate for family medicine in 2011 was a record high of 94.4 percent, up 3 percent from 2010."

“At a time of federal budgetary restraint, the American Academy of Family Physicians appreciates Congress’ vote to continue support for the health professions grants that are vital to building the nation’s primary care physician workforce."

"In Sacramento, California, Residents from UC-Davis and Sutter Family & Community Medicine Programs in coordination with the California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP) put our heads together to accomplish this task, creating the “Future Faces of Family Medicine” (FFFM) program to inspire a class of high school students to pursue a career in Family Medicine."