CAFM LEADERSHIP DEMOGRAPHICS

Amanda Weidner; Deborah S. Clements

doi:10.1370/afm.2678

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Summary Demographics for Leaders in Academic Family Medicine Across the 4 CAFM Organizations, as of Fall 2020 (9/30/20 for ADFM, NAPCRG, STFM; 10/2/2020 for AFMRD)

	Dept Chairs (n = 161) ADFM No. (%)	Program Directors (n = 593) AFMRD No. (%)	Associate Program Directors (n = 304) AFMRD No. (%)	Medical Student Education Directors (n = 193) STFM No. (%)	Research Leaders^{^a} (n = 307) NAPCRG No. (%)
Education/training/degrees
MD/DO or equivalent	152 (94)	576 (97)	282 (93)	181 (94)	140 (46)
PhD	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	2 (1)	91 (30)
MD/DO and PhD	6 (4)	4 (1)	3 (1)	1 (0.5)	38 (12)
Other degree	1 (1)	0 (0)	0 (0)	4 (2)	18 (6)
No response	2 (1)	13 (2)	19 (6)	5 (3)	20 (7)
Gender
Female	48 (30)	246 (42)	175 (56)	118 (61)	142 (46)
Male	108 (67)	325 (55)	114 (38)	74 (38)	162 (53)
Other	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)
Choose not to disclose	0 (0)	3 (0.5)	3 (1)	0 (0)	3 (1)
No response	5 (3)	19 (3)	12 (4)	1 (0.5)	0 (0)
Age
≤30	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (0.5)	0 (0)
31-40	3 (2)	72 (12)	124 (41)	59 (31)	13 (4)
41-50	30 (19)	222 (37)	82 (27)	56 (29)	50 (16)
51-60	59 (37)	151 (25)	37 (12)	49 (25)	98 (32)
61-70	58 (37)	88 (15)	24 (8)	21 (11)	104 (34)
>70	5 (3)	7 (1)	0 (0)	2 (1)	28 (9)
No response or nonsensical response	6 (4)	53 (9)	37 (12)	5 (3)	14 (5)
Ethnicity
Not Hispanic or Latino	119 (74)	470 (79)	247 (81)	158 (82)	235 (77)
Hispanic or Latino	5 (3)	30 (5)	17 (6)	10 (5)	7 (2)
Choose not to disclose	n/a	49 (8)	19 (6)	n/a	n/a
No response	37 (23)	44 (7)	21 (7)	25 (13)	65 (21)
Race
American Indian or Alaska Native	1 (1)	4 (1)	2 (1)	1 (0.5)	1 <1)
Asian	9 (9)	40 (7)	34 (11)	23 (12)	19 (6)
Black or African American	20 (13)	30 (5)	9 (3)	12 (6)	6 (2)
Native Hawaiian/other Pacific Islander	0 (0)	3 (0.5)	0 (0)	1 (0.5)	0 (0)
White	116 (72)	422 (71)	221 (73)	146 (76)	244 (79)
Choose not to disclose	8 (5)	50 (8)	17 (6)	9 (5)	25 (8)
No response	7 (4)	44 (7)	21 (7)	1 (0.5)	12 (4)
Family college history
One or both of my parents (or whoever raised me) graduated from college	78 (49)	385 (65)	188 (62)	111 (58)	116 (38)
Neither of my parents (or whoever raised me) graduated from college	33 (21)	132 (22)	75 (25)	44 (23)	52 (17)
Choose not to disclose	10 (6)	32 (5)	20 (7)	10 (5)	31 (10)
No response	40 (25)	44 (7)	21 (7)	28 (15)	108 (35)

ADFM = Association of Departments of Family Medicine; AFMRD = Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors; CAFM = Council of Academic Family Medicine; DO = doctor of osteopathy; MD = doctor of medicine; NAPCRG = North American Primary Care Research Group; PhD = doctor of philosophy; STFM = Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.
↵^a NAPCRG does not have a field to designate research director role. For this count, research leaders were defined as those who were in the United States; indicated they were an “experienced” researcher; were a principal investigator (PI); and were not a fellow, grad student, resident, student, or patient/community member.