Primary Care Workforce Facts and Stats No. 1: The Number of Physicians Practicing Primary Care in the United States
November 1, 2011 The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality factsheet has statistics about the number of practicing primary care physicians in the United States in 2010. Americans are visiting primary care physicians 51.3% of the time and within primary care, are visiting family physicians/general practitioners 45.23% of the time, general internists medicine 31.19% of the time, and general pediatricians 23.59% of the time. Download the Report . . .

