Family Physicians Play Integral Role in Emergency Medicine

National Study on the Contribution of Family Physicians to the US Emergency Physician Workforce in 2020

“…As such, we likely slightly underestimate the number of actual FM EPs. 4,5 Second, we are unable to account for the contributions of osteopathic EPs. Data are linked only to ACGME and ABMS; there is no equivalent osteopathic database.…”

“…We found more EPs compared with 2008 but a decrease in the density of EPs in rural areas. 2,3 Further, we found that nearly a third of rural EPs reported prior family medicine (FM) residency training; 3 FM-trained EPs-who we will refer to as FM EPs-play an important role in emergency care in the rural United States, 4,5 but this population has not been well characterized. Our goal was to characterize the 2020 population of clinically active FM EPs and identify their geographic distribution.…”

Access to Emergency Healthcare

“…The use of the primary healthcare centers and family physicians in providing emergency care has been practiced in several countries, especially in small cities and rural areas [10,34]. The American Association of family physicians published a position paper highlights the many benefits of using "family medicine centers" (i.e.…”

Pawn and King Play: A Stalemate on Rural Emergency Medicine Staffing

“…Health policy recommendations have emphasized the importance of a partnership between specialties to solve rural EM issue, but due to the politics of medicine, these recommendations have largely been ignored. 3 In 2006, the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) issued a report on EM. 4 This called for "more collaborative efforts between specialties… [because] family physicians are an essential component of the ED workforce… with a high level of competency in emergency care through a combination of residency and postresidency education, directed skills training, and onthe-job experience."…”