MedPage Today October 20, 2025
Message burden, patient complexity may push those hours up
Key Takeaways
- PCPs clocked a median of 62 weekly hours caring for their patient panel.
- That figure translated to a median of 1.7 hours per patient per year.
- The findings come on the heels of other research showing PCP burnout also is high.
Primary care physicians (PCPs) clocked more than 60 hours a week caring for their patient panel, a cross-sectional study suggested.
Among more than 400 PCPs, the median work effort was 2,844.3 yearly hours — or 61.8 weekly hours — for each clinical full-time equivalent (cFTE) physician, assuming a 46-week work year, reported Lisa Rotenstein, MD, MBA, MSc, of the University of California San Francisco, and colleagues.
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