PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Petty, Aerial
AU  - Barr, Wendy B.
AU  - Morgan, Zachary J.
AU  - Bazemore, Andrew
TI  - Early Career Family Physicians Continue to Provide Maternity Care and Deliver Babies
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2025.250078R1
DP  - 2026 Jan 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - 159259
VI  - 39
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/39/1/159259.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/39/1/159259.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2026 Jan 01; 39
AB  - While the proportion of all family physicians (FPs) delivering babies has declined, the proportion of early career FPs delivering babies declined at a much slower rate between 2016 and 2023 from 13.1% to 10.2%, and the proportion providing maternity care over this period has slightly increased from 25.0% to 28.9%. As maternal mortality rises, supporting FPs in maternity care is crucial for workforce sustainability and health equity.