Family Medicine Physicians
Health ScienceO*NET 29-1215.00United States
Diagnose, treat, and provide preventive care to individuals and families across the lifespan. May refer patients to specialists when needed for further diagnosis or treatment.
- Median annual earnings
- $244,042
- Projected change
- +5.8%
- Typical education
- Doctoral degree or more
- Employment
- 119.01K jobs
50th percentile, United States
2025 to 2035
87.9% of the workforce
Growing to 125.96K by 2035
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The work
What family medicine physicians do
Tasks reported for this occupation, ordered by how often they come up in the role.
- Prescribe or administer treatment, therapy, medication, vaccination, and other specialized medical care to treat or prevent illness, disease, or injury.
- Order, perform, and interpret tests and analyze records, reports, and examination information to diagnose patients' condition.
- Collect, record, and maintain patient information, such as medical history, reports, or examination results.
- Monitor patients' conditions and progress and reevaluate treatments as necessary.
- Explain procedures and discuss test results or prescribed treatments with patients.
- Advise patients and community members concerning diet, activity, hygiene, and disease prevention.
- Direct and coordinate activities of nurses, students, assistants, specialists, therapists, and other medical staff.
- Refer patients to medical specialists or other practitioners when necessary.
- Coordinate work with nurses, social workers, rehabilitation therapists, pharmacists, psychologists, and other health care providers.
- Plan, implement, or administer health programs or standards in hospitals, businesses, or communities for prevention or treatment of injury or illness.
- Train residents, medical students, and other health care professionals.
Pay and outlook
What the job pays and where it is heading
Annual earnings range
Reported earnings by percentile, United States
- 10th percentile
- $74,727
- 25th percentile
- $158,938
- 50th percentile
- $244,042
- 75th percentile
- $336,988
- 90th percentile
- $439,516
The gold marker shows the median. Half earn more than $244,042 and half earn less.
Employment outlook
2025 to 2035 projection
+5.8%average or slower
2025119,010 jobs
2035 projected125,958 jobs
6,948 more positions over the decade, before replacement hiring.
Preparation
Education levels
What people currently working in the career hold. These are not entry requirements.
- Doctoral degree or more
- 87.9%
- Master's or Professional degree
- 9.5%
- Bachelor's degree
- 2.3%
- Some college
- 0.3%
Skills
Skills employers ask for
Technical skills appearing most often in job postings for this occupation.
How the work gets done
Core competencies
Broad capabilities associated with strong performance in this occupation.
- Critical Thinking
- Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Reading Comprehension
- Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
- Active Listening
- Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Speaking
- Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Writing
- Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Complex Problem Solving
- Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Active Learning
- Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Monitoring
- Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Time Management
- Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Science
- Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
- Social Perceptiveness
- Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Service Orientation
- Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Instructing
- Teaching others how to do something.
- Learning Strategies
- Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Coordination
- Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Persuasion
- Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Management of Personnel Resources
- Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Negotiation
- Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Systems Evaluation
- Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
In the market
Job titles and employers
Recent job postings in United StatesCommon job titles
- 01Family Practice Physicians23,947 postings
- 02Family Medicine Physicians20,845 postings
- 03Primary Care Physicians9,895 postings
- 04Locum Tenens Family Practice Physicians8,828 postings
- 05General Surgeons7,862 postings
- 06Family Practice Primary Care Physician Assistants5,154 postings
- 07Child Life Specialists3,086 postings
- 08DO Physicians2,452 postings
- 09General Physicians2,109 postings
- 10Internal Medicine Primary Care Physicians1,941 postings
- 11Family Medicine/Internal Medicine Physicians1,360 postings
- 12Outpatient Family Practice Physicians1,230 postings
- 13Outpatient Family Medicine Physicians1,214 postings
- 14General Surgery Physician Assistants1,115 postings
- 15Psychiatry Physicians/Psychiatrists1,102 postings
- 16Locum Tenens Family Medicine Physicians1,086 postings
- 17General Practice Physicians1,073 postings
- 18Primary Care Physician Assistants903 postings
- 19Family Medicine Primary Care Physicians879 postings
- 20Locum Tenens General Surgeons767 postings
Top employers
- 01CompHealth9,211 postings
- 02Weatherby Healthcare5,581 postings
- 03Enterprise Medical Recruiting5,002 postings
- 04Hayman Daugherty Associates4,994 postings
- 05Britt Medical Search2,552 postings
- 06Lehigh Valley Health Network2,105 postings
- 07The Inline Group1,948 postings
- 08The Curare Group1,844 postings
- 09AMN Healthcare1,805 postings
- 10Integrity Healthcare1,511 postings
- 11Physician Empire1,481 postings
- 12FCS Psychiatric Recruitment1,411 postings
- 13All Star HealthCare1,405 postings
- 14GO Staffing1,318 postings
- 15Medicorp1,256 postings
- 16Jackson Physician Search1,235 postings
- 17Surgical Information Systems1,193 postings
- 18United States Department of Veterans Affairs999 postings
- 19Optum914 postings
- 20One Medical912 postings
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