Experiences of new family physicians finding jobs with obstetrical care in the USA

Family Medicine and Community Health
Aimee R EdenElizabeth Rose Hansen

Abstract

This study aimed to explore how new family medicine graduates who want to include obstetrics in their scope of practice identify and select jobs and to understand how employment influences scope of practice in family medicine, particularly the ability to provide maternity care and deliver babies. Mixed-methods study including a survey and qualitative interviews conducted in 2017. We electronically surveyed US family physicians and followed up with a purposeful subsample of these physicians to conduct in-depth, semistructured telephone interviews. 1016 US family medicine residency graduates 2014-2016 who indicated that they intended to deliver babies in practice completed a survey; 56 of these were interviewed. The survey measured the reasons for not doing obstetrics as a family physician. To identify themes regarding finding family medicine jobs with obstetrics, we used a team-based, immersion-crystallisation approach to analyse the transcribed qualitative interviews. Survey results (49% response rate) showed that not finding a job that included obstetrics was the primary reason newly graduated family physicians who intended to do obstetrics were not doing so. Qualitative interviews revealed that family physicians often find jo...Continue Reading

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Nov 28, 2020·The Journal of Rural Health : Official Journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association·Urooj NasimLars E Peterson

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