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CAFM LEADERSHIP DEMOGRAPHICS

Amanda Weidner and Deborah S. Clements
The Annals of Family Medicine March 2021, 19 (2) 181-185; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.2678
Amanda Weidner
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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 Leadersa (n = 307) NAPCRG No. (%)
    Education/training/degrees
    MD/DO or equivalent152 (94)576 (97)282 (93)181 (94)140 (46)
    PhD0 (0)0 (0)0 (0)2 (1)91 (30)
    MD/DO and PhD6 (4)4 (1)3 (1)1 (0.5)38 (12)
    Other degree1 (1)0 (0)0 (0)4 (2)18 (6)
    No response2 (1)13 (2)19 (6)5 (3)20 (7)
    Gender
    Female48 (30)246 (42)175 (56)118 (61)142 (46)
    Male108 (67)325 (55)114 (38)74 (38)162 (53)
    Other0 (0)0 (0)0 (0)0 (0)0 (0)
    Choose not to disclose0 (0)3 (0.5)3 (1)0 (0)3 (1)
    No response5 (3)19 (3)12 (4)1 (0.5)0 (0)
    Age
    ≤300 (0)0 (0)0 (0)1 (0.5)0 (0)
    31-403 (2)72 (12)124 (41)59 (31)13 (4)
    41-5030 (19)222 (37)82 (27)56 (29)50 (16)
    51-6059 (37)151 (25)37 (12)49 (25)98 (32)
    61-7058 (37)88 (15)24 (8)21 (11)104 (34)
    >705 (3)7 (1)0 (0)2 (1)28 (9)
    No response or nonsensical response6 (4)53 (9)37 (12)5 (3)14 (5)
    Ethnicity
    Not Hispanic or Latino119 (74)470 (79)247 (81)158 (82)235 (77)
    Hispanic or Latino5 (3)30 (5)17 (6)10 (5)7 (2)
    Choose not to disclosen/a49 (8)19 (6)n/an/a
    No response37 (23)44 (7)21 (7)25 (13)65 (21)
    Race
    American Indian or Alaska Native1 (1)4 (1)2 (1)1 (0.5)1 <1)
    Asian9 (9)40 (7)34 (11)23 (12)19 (6)
    Black or African American20 (13)30 (5)9 (3)12 (6)6 (2)
    Native Hawaiian/other Pacific Islander0 (0)3 (0.5)0 (0)1 (0.5)0 (0)
    White116 (72)422 (71)221 (73)146 (76)244 (79)
    Choose not to disclose8 (5)50 (8)17 (6)9 (5)25 (8)
    No response7 (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 college78 (49)385 (65)188 (62)111 (58)116 (38)
    Neither of my parents (or whoever raised me) graduated from college33 (21)132 (22)75 (25)44 (23)52 (17)
    Choose not to disclose10 (6)32 (5)20 (7)10 (5)31 (10)
    No response40 (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.

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