Choosing or Changing a Career Path

Family medicine may be a single specialty, but it comes in almost as many "flavors" as there are family physicians. This collection of articles is designed to display a variety of flavors of practice and give you a start in a practice that suits your taste. Note that FPM content published within the past 12 months is accessible to AAFP members and paid subscribers only.

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The Variety of Practice Possibilities Solo Practice Employed Practice Innovative Practice Models

Practicing Part-Time Job Hunting Leaving Practice

The Variety of Practice Possibilities

• 14 Alternative Practice Styles [Feature] (02/01/2001)
• Choosing Between Clinical Practice and Administration [Feature] (01/01/2003)
• Is Moonlighting Right For You? [Feature] (03/01/2007)
• Providing Charity Care: A Primer on Liability Risk [Feature] (01/01/2003)
• A Physician's Guide to Locum Tenens [Feature] (02/01/1999)

Solo Practice

• Solo Practice: The Way of the Future [Feature] (10/01/2003)
• Ten Reasons to Be a Self-Employed Family Physician and Ten Ways to Do It [Feature] (10/01/2002)

Employed Practice

• See our "Employed Practice" topic collection

Innovative Practice Models

• Cashing in on House Calls [Feature] (02/01/2006)
• Cash-Only Practice: Could It Work for You? [Feature] (02/01/2006)
• Going Solo: One Doc, One Room, One Year Later [Feature] (03/01/2002)
• A New Model of Charitable Care: The Robin Hood Practice [Feature] (02/01/2008)

Practicing Part-Time

• A Job-Share Model for the New Millenium [Feature] (09/01/2002)
• Part-Time Practice: Making It Work [Feature] (06/01/2004)
• A Part-Time Practice Success Story [Feature] (09/01/1999)

Job Hunting

• Demystifying Common Terms in Employment Agreements [Feature] (06/01/2003)
• Finding the Perfect Job [Feature] (08/01/2006)
• Interviewing 101 [Feature] (01/01/2001)
• A Primer on Employment Contracts [Salaried FP] (12/01/2002)
• Tying the Partnership Knot: Making It a Win for Both Practice and Associate [Feature] (04/01/2009)

Leaving Practice

• It's Not Too Early to Prepare for Semi-Retirement [Salaried FP] (02/01/2002)
• A Must-Do List for the Departing Physician [Feature] (10/01/2005)
• Negotiating Your Semi-Retirement Package [Feature] (12/01/2004)

Last Update: 07/22/2010