Dr. Jacobsen Retains Membership

Dr. Thomas E. Jacobsen has completed continuing medical education requirements to retain membership in the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). Founded in 1947, the AAFP represents more than 94,600 physicians and medical students nationwide.

To be members of the AAFP, family physicians must complete 150 hours of continuing medical education every three years to learn the most up-to-date treatments, technologies and medical research.

Family physicians complete an extensive three-year residency program after graduating from medical school. As part of their residency, family physicians receive training in six major medical areas: pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, psychiatry and neurology, surgery and community medicine.

As a result, family physicians are the only medical specialists qualified to provide comprehensive health care for people of all ages.

Nearly one in four of all office vests are made to family physicians. That is 208 million office visits each year –nearly 83 million more than the next largest medical specialty.

Today, family physicians provide more care for America’s underserved and rural populations than any other medical specialty.

In the increasingly fragmented world of health care where many medical specialties limit their practice to a particular organ, disease, age or sex, family physicians are dedicated to treating the whole person across the full spectrum of ages. Family medicine’s cornerstone is an ongoing, personal patient-physician relationship focused on integrated care.

To learn more about the AAFP and about specialty of family medicine, visit aafp.org.

06/28/2010