American Board of Family Medicine

Rural Family Medicine–General Surgery Dyads and Health Outcomes

Importance Despite a 43% higher age-adjusted mortality rate among rural working-age adults and a 29.1% decline in general surgeon supply between 2001 and 2019, the public health impact of the family medicine–general surgery (FM-GS) specialty dyad remains understudied. Objective T...

Rural Family Physicians Have a Broader Scope of Practice than Urban Family Physicians

Overview of Key Findings Little is known about whether rural family physicians provide a broader scope of practice, defined as the range of clinical and procedural services that they provide, than metropolitan family physicians. Using data from 18,846 family physicians, we examin...