Family Physicians See Culture Improve, Challenge RVU System
Medscape January 8, 2025
Family care physicians are seeing steady or gradual improvements in several key aspects of running their practices, according to the “Family Medicine Practice Issues Report 2024” by Medscape Medical News.
The report was based on data from several Medscape surveys conducted between January and June 2024.
Among the report’s findings: Family medicine physicians (23%) were more likely than doctors overall (16%) to report improvements in the quality of their workplace culture.
Another 48% of the family medicine physicians surveyed said the quality of their workplace culture was holding steady, and 29% said it was declining.
Santina Wheat, MD, MPH, a family physician and associate professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, told Medscape Medical News these findings...