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Table 4: Selected Practice Characteristics of Active AAFP Members

:Which of the following best describes your employment/professional situation?
    PERCENT
:Full-time (at least 35 hours/week)   percent:88%
:Part-time   percent:11%
:Fully retired   percent:<1%
:Not in the workforce for other reasons   percent:1%
     
:Average percent of time spent in various tasks
   
MEAN MEDIAN
:Clinical practice/patient care and related tasks :82% percent:90.0%
:Administration or managerial tasks (not directly related to patient care) :11% percent:5%
:Research :1% percent:0%
:Teaching :6% percent:0%
     
:Which of the following best describes your role in the ownership of your primary clinical practice?
    PERCENT
:You are the sole owner of your practice   percent:10%
:You are a partial owner or shareholder in your practice   percent:14%
:You have no official ownership stake in your practice (100% employed)   percent:73%
:Not applicable/not in clinical practice   percent:3%
     
:Who is your primary employer?
    PERCENT
:Hospital/Health System   percent:53%
:Physician group    percent:16%
:Government   percent:15%
:University   percent:10%
:Managed care organization or insurance company   percent:2%
:Other   percent:4%
     
:If you see patients, indicate your primary patient care location
    PERCENT
:Office or clinic   percent:74%
:Federally-qualified community health center (FQHC)   percent:11%
:Hospital (not emergency department)   percent:4%
:Hospital emergency department   percent:3%
:Urgent care facility   percent:4%
:Institutional residential facility   percent:2%
:Other    percent:2%
     
:Please indicate all specialties of physicians working at your primary location, including yourself (Base for percentages: 32,531)
    PERCENT
:Family medicine   percent:98%
:General internal medicine   percent:31%
:Other specialties   percent:25%
:Pediatrics   percent:23%
:Obstetrics/gynecology   percent:17%
:Emergency medicine   percent:12%
 

Source: American Academy of Family Physicians Member Census, December 31, 2020