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Facts About Family Medicine

Statistics related to family medicine and family physicians.

Table 1 -- Membership in the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) by membership category (2012 benchmark data)

Table 2 -- Selected demographic characteristics of AAFP members (as of December 31, 2011)

Table 3 -- Selected practice characteristics of active AAFP members (as of December 31, 2011)

Table 4 -- Mean and median 2009 individual income (before taxes, in thousands of dollars) of family physicians (as of April 2011)

Table 5 -- Average number of weeks family physicians practiced or engaged in other professional activities in the last twelve months (as of April 2011)

Table 6 -- Average number of family physician patient encounters per week by setting (as of April 2011)

Table 7 -- Average number of patient contact hours per week by family physicians by task (as of April 2011)

Table 8 -- Patient health care insurance coverage in family physician practices (as of April 2011)

Table 9 -- Medicare participation by family physicians (as of April 2011)

Table 10 -- Acceptance of Medicare patients by family physicians (as of April 2011)

Table 11 -- Acceptance of Medicaid patients by family physicians (as of April 2011)

Table 12 -- Performance of (and reasons for not performing) diagnostic procedures in family physicians' practices (as of April 2011)

Table 13 -- Clinical laboratory improvement amendment (CLIA) classification of family physicians' office laboratories (as of April 2011)

Table 14 -- Performance of laboratory tests in family physician office labs (as of April 2011)

Table 15 -- Hospital admission privileges of family physicians (as of April 2011)

Table 16 -- Opinion about family physicians' hospital privileges (as of April 2011)

Table 17 -- Provision of selected services and procedures in hospital practices of family physicians (as of April 2011)

Table 18 -- Number of babies delivered in 2009 by family physicians (as of April 2011)

Table 19 -- Family medicine residency programs by structure (as of July 2012)

Table 20 -- Selected statistics for family medicine residency programs (as of July 2012)

Table 21 -- Number of accredited programs, approved first-year positions, National Residency Match Program (NRMP) fill rate, actual fill rate, and total residents for family medicine residency programs (as of July 2012)

Table 22 -- Total educational debt burden for family medicine residency graduates (as of June 2012)