The Evolving Family Medicine Team

2020

Authors Jabbarpour, Yalda, Jetty, Anuradha, Dai, Mingliang, Magill, Michael K, Bazemore, Andrew W
Topics Role of Primary Care
Volume 33(4):499-501
Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

A decade of practice transformation, consolidation, and payment experimentation have highlighted the need for team-based primary care, but little is known about how team composition is changing over time. Surveys of Family Physicians (FPs) from 2014-18 reveal they continue to work alongside inter-professional team members and suggest slow but steady growth in the proportion of FPs working with nurses, behaviorists, clinical pharmacists, and social workers.