More than eight in 10 (84 percent) of the respondents to the 2004 Member Attitude Survey said they were satisfied or very satisfied with the AAFP compared with other organizations.
Nearly six out of 10 respondents (59 percent) said the Academy's performance had improved in 2004 compared with the past.
In addition, 92 percent of survey respondents said they were kept well-informed about major actions and programs of the AAFP. The majority of members said they received that information through American Family Physician (81 percent) and the Academy Web site (55 percent). Many members also said they obtained the information from Family Practice Management, Academy mailings, FP Report and AAFP This Week.
The respondents gave these rankings to these AAFP products and services:
Seventy-three percent of respondents said family physicians provided higher-quality health care now than 10 years ago. Ninety-four percent said outside regulations were making it more and more difficult to practice medicine.
Some areas within AAFP were not rated quite as highly as in the past. Sixty-four percent of respondents (compared with 73 percent in 2003) said AAFP did a good job representing family medicine to the public and patients, and 57 percent (compared with 65 percent in 2003) said the Academy was doing a good job representing family medicine to government.
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