Weaver Sally P
Family Medicine Resideny, McLennan County Medical Education and Research Foundation, Waco, TX.
Fam Med. 2015 Feb;47(2):131-3.
Little is known about the numbers of faculty in the family medicine academic workforce. As family medicine continues to advance in the current patient-centered medical home environment, baseline data on family medicine faculty may become important for policy makers and those who try to influence them. This nationwide study describes the types, numbers, and regional location of family medicine academic faculty.
All US allopathic family medicine residency program and US medical school family medicine department websites were gleaned for information regarding academic faculty. Additionally, programs were contacted via telephone and asked whether any of their faculty were considered part-time.
Data were collected from 99% of programs/departments. There are 8,987 people in academic family medicine faculty positions. More than 80% of these are physicians. Over 50% of programs/departments have at least one physician with a doctor of osteopathy degree; 21.9% of faculty are considered part-time. Pharmacists accounted for the highest percentage of part-time faculty.
This study provides the most complete census available to date of family medicine faculty in the United States. Such data may be useful in predicting future family medicine faculty workforce needs as the state of primary care medicine continues to evolve.
关于家庭医学学术工作队伍中的教员数量，我们所知甚少。随着家庭医学在当前以患者为中心的医疗之家环境中不断发展，家庭医学教员的基线数据对于政策制定者以及试图影响他们的人而言可能变得至关重要。这项全国性研究描述了家庭医学学术教员的类型、数量和地区分布。
从美国所有的对抗疗法家庭医学住院医师培训项目以及美国医学院家庭医学系的网站上搜集有关学术教员的信息。此外，还通过电话联系了这些项目，询问其教员中是否有被视为兼职的。
从99%的项目/系收集到了数据。学术家庭医学教员职位上有8987人。其中超过80%是医生。超过50%的项目/系至少有一名拥有整骨疗法博士学位的医生；21.9%的教员被视为兼职。药剂师在兼职教员中所占比例最高。
本研究提供了迄今为止美国最完整的家庭医学教员普查数据。随着初级保健医学状况的不断演变，这些数据可能有助于预测未来家庭医学教员队伍的需求。
