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Family Medicine and Emergency Redeployment: Unrealized Potential

机译:Family Medicine and Emergency Redeployment: Unrealized Potential

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Discussions of scope of practice among family physicians has become a crucial topic amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with new attention to residency training requirements. Family medicine has seen a gradual narrowing of practice due to a host of issues, including physician choice, expanding scope of practice from physician assistants and nurses, an increased emphasis on patient volume, clinical revenue, and residency training competency requirements. We sought to demonstrate the flexibility of the family medicine workforce as shown through their scopes of practice, and argue that this is indication of their potential for redeployment during emergencies. METHODS: This study computes scopes of practice for 78,416 family physicians who treat Medicare beneficiaries. We used Evaluation and Management (E/M) codes in Medicare's 2017 Par t-B public use file to calculate volumes of services done across six sites of service per physician. We aggregated counts and proportions of physicians and the E/M services they provided across sites of practice to characterize scope, and performed a separate analysis on rural physicians. RESULTS: The study found most family physicians practicing at a single site, namely, the ambulatory clinic. However, family physicians in rural areas, where need is greater, exhibit broader scope. This suggests that a significant number of family physicians have capacity for COVID-19 deployment into other settings, such as emergency rooms or hospitals. CONCLUSIONS: Family physicians are a potential resource for emergency redeployment, however the current breadth of scope for most family physicians is not aligned with current residency training requirements and raises questions about the future of family medicine scope of practice.

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