AAFP Advocacy Focus: Building the Family Physician Workforce
Meeting the Need for Primary Care
Primary care physicians have never been more critical to U.S. health, even as the family medicine workforce pipeline has never been more challenged. The Academy is working to restore growth to America's most important medical specialty, ensuring effective and accessible care for generations to come. To accomplish this, the Academy advocates constantly to clear regulatory and legislative pathways to an expanded physician workforce.
Why We Fight
U.S. health is threatened by a primary care workforce shortage, and the country will need 52,000 more primary care physicians by 2025. Meeting this imperative means clearing major roadblocks — a mission on which the Academy is intently focused.
Graduate Medical Education
Track the AAFP's push to preserve Medicare funding for graduate medical education.
Medical Student Debt
AAFP efforts to ease the heavy burden of medical school debt.
Scope of Practice
Family physicians are uniquely qualified to lead primary care and the Medical Home.
Title VII
Join the AAFP in its call to support adequate funding for health professions grants for family medicine.