Generally, the Family Medicine specialty is fairly evenly split between males and females with 60% of providers reporting their gender as male and 39% reporting as female. People living in California, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, and New York enjoy living in one of the 5 most popular states/territories where Family Medicine providers practice. In all, there are 187,462 registered Family Medicine providers in the United States with over 15,495 of those located in California alone while around 13,980 chose to practice in Texas.
Family Medicine providers have been assigned the 207Q00000X taxonomy code in the NPI registry, which is a Level II Classification. Click here for more information about medical specialty types.
Overall, Family Medicine specialists practice in 56 different states/territories and can be categorized into 8 different Family Medicine sub-specialties: Addiction Medicine (Family Medicine), Adolescent Medicine (Family Medicine), Adult Medicine, Bariatric Medicine (Family Medicine), Geriatric Medicine (Family Medicine), Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Family Medicine), Sleep Medicine, and Sports Medicine (Family Medicine).
Family Medicine is the medical specialty which is concerned with the total health care of the individual and the family. It is the specialty in breadth which integrates the biological, clinical, and behavioral sciences. The scope of family medicine is not limited by age, sex, organ system, or disease entity.