To combat the primary care physician shortage, several family medicine organizations — such as the Council of Academic Family Medicine, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Board of Family Medicine and the AAFP Foundation — have adopted what they call the “Four Pillars for Primary Care Physician Workforce.”
They call the model “a succinct model to identify necessary conditions to ensure the needed growth in the number of primary care physicians,” according to a report in the Annals of Family Medicine.
Below are more details on the four pillars, as described in the report.
1. Pipeline. To have the ranks of primary care physicians grow, the pipeline of physicians must expand through recruiting and sustaining students who will likely become primary care physicians. There are three key ways to do so mentioned in the report:
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