Background: Five million Canadians lack a family doctor or primary care team. Our goal was
to examine trends over time in family physician workforce and service provision in Ontario …

PURPOSE We sought to project the number of primary care physicians required to meet US
health care utilization needs through 2025 after passage of the Affordable Care Act …

Despite training to provide care across the continuum of health delivery settings, the
proportion of family physicians (FPs) reporting inpatient care has decreased by 26 …

Background: Lack of patient access to family physicians in Canada is a concern. The role of
recent physician graduates in this problem of supply of primary care services has not been …

PURPOSE Primary care is the foundation of the health care workforce and the only part that
extends life and improves health equity. Previous research on the geographic and specialty …

The Future of Family Medicine Report envisioned a new model of practice “committed to
providing the full basket of clinical services offered by Family Medicine.” 1 In actuality …

Importance Maintaining a healthy physician workforce includes the routine use of primary
care physician (PCP) services; however, physicians may face barriers to attaining formal …

Primary care providers include primary care physicians, physician assistants, and nurse
practitioners. Primary care physicians are those in family and general practice, internal …

The extent to which the US population uses primary care physicians relative to other types of
physician specialists has important policy-relevant implications for both the cost and quality …

Background: Family physicians provide a sizable portion of emergency care in the United
States. However, there is limited work characterizing this population. Methods: We …