Maternity Care and Buprenorphine Prescribing in New Family Physicians

2020

Authors St Louis, Joshua, Eden, Aimee R, Morgan, Zachary J, Barreto, Tyler W, Peterson, Lars E, Phillips, Robert L
Topics Education & Training, What Family Physicians Do
Volume 18(2):156-158
Source Annals of Family Medicine

The American Board of Family Medicine routinely surveys its Diplomates in each national graduating cohort 3 years out of training. These data were used to characterize early career family physicians whose services include management of pregnancy and prescribing buprenorphine. A total of 261 (5.1%) respondents both provide maternity care and prescribe buprenorphine. Family physicians who care for pregnant women and also prescribe buprenorphine represented 50.4% of all buprenorphine prescribers. The family physicians in this group were trained in a small number of residency programs, with only 15 programs producing at least 25% of graduates who do this work.