New Physician Resources
For the first years of your journey in family medicine, lean into an array of information and tools designed to address your needs and help you navigate your career.
Land Your Best Job
Keep Up on Your Clinical Expertise
Maintain Your Well-Being
Connect with Your Peers
Advocacy and You
Build Your Leadership Skills
Managing Your Practice
Land Your Best Job
How to Write a CV
Your Career Planning Portal
Make your CV stand out with these formatting tips and example headings.
Search for jobs and find resources to help you prepare for your next career opportunity.
Read CV Tips
Visit AAFP Career Link
Find a Job
Negotiating Employment Contracts
Job Search Resources
Keep Up on Your Clinical Expertise
Easily find evidenced-based resources to support your clinical decisions.
Latest Clinical Guidance and Recommendations
see clinical recommendations
read afp
Access concise, easy-to-read, evidence based clinical review articles.
AFP Journal
subscribe today
Tune in and listen to the latest episode to get your clinical highlights for free.
AFP Podcast
ACCESS TOOLKIT
Confront disparities and bias to improve your patient outcomes.
Advancing Health Equity
Experience the magic of AAFP FMX and unite with your family medicine community.
2025 FMX Conference
Connect with Your Peers
Watch Videos
Improve your negotiation skills which can have a long-term positive effect on your career and personal life.
Members Only:
Free Negotiation Video Series
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Join your colleagues for a collaborative leadership experience.
AAFP Leadership Conference
Managing Your Practice
For many new physicians, the area of practice management is new and exciting territory. Use the FPM Journal for information and ideas to improve your practice, your patients' experience, and your career.
A Practice Management Resource for You
Read FPM
Watch a diverse range of lectures on physician wellness.
Well-being CME
Increase your happiness through mediation and mindfulness.
Importance of Self-care
Learn operational and relational skills to create your optimal culture.
Create Your Culture
10/05/2025 - 10/09/2025
2025 FMX Conference
Anaheim, CA
Members only: Engage with your peers in a community designed for you to share, learn, inspire, and network.
New Physician Issues
Online Forum
JOIN AN ONLINE COMMUNITY
Members only: Join interest-specific online communities and enjoy collaboration with peers while growing your professional network.
Member Interest Groups
(MIGS)
JOIN AN ONLINE COMMUNITY
Live Events Are a Great Way to Increase Your Knowledge and Connect with Peers
Learn more
4/10/2024
Global Health Webinar - Cultivating Cultural Humility in Global Health Practice Livestream
Upcoming Events
Learn more
4/18/2024 – 4/20/24
Obesity CME for the Family Physician Livestream
Learn more
5/6/2024 - 5/8/2024
Physician Health and Well-being Conference
Learn more
5/19/2024 – 5/24/2024
Family Medicine Advocacy Summit
SEE ALL AAFP LIVE EVENTS
Check out recent advocacy activity, campaigns and wins.
Activity and Progress
Let your practice and patient priorities be heard.
Advocate for Fam Med
Take Back Your Time
Administrative Simplification
Monday, April 23 - Thursday, April 26, 2025
Loews Kansas City Hotel, Kansas City, MO
READ THE ARTICLE
Practice these five leadership habits early in your career.
Leadership Habits
READ THE ARTICLE
Keep ego from getting in the way of effective teamwork.
Humility in Leadership
READ THE ARTICLE
Family Physician leaders share their ten keys to success.
Lessons from Leaders
Coding and Payments
Value-Based Payment
Practice Resources
A library of tools and resources from videos to coding tables to help you start or refine your patient telehealth offerings.
Telehealth and Telemedicine
See TOOLS AND RESOURCES
Learn the principles of practice management and how to navigate the business side of medicine.
Business Fundamentals for New Physicians – Earn 14 CME Credits Online
See BUSINESS FUNDAMENTALS
Starting Your Own Practice
Take Course
Enhance your reproductive health knowledge with this free course designed specifically to fill skill gaps
Reproductive Health CME
See PATIENT WELL-BEING
Support for your patients who are struggling with emotional issues.
Mental Well-being
Earn Clinical CME
Select clinical topics by free, format, date, or location and enhance your patient care expertise.
CME by Topic
DOWNLOAD THE APP
Your on-the-go access to clinical recommendations, AFP and FPM journals, CME reporting, and more.
AAFP Mobile App
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see PHYSICIAN WELL-BEING
As a new physician, there's nothing more important than being mindful of your well-being.
Put Your Health First
Maintain Your Well-being
SEE THE LATEST ADVOCACY WORK
Find out what the AAFP is doing to protect and advance the specialty of family medicine–for you.
Fighting for Family Medicine
Advocacy and You
see AAFP LEADERSHIP POSITIONS
Share your passion as a new physician and help strengthen the specialty of family medicine by applying for an AAFP leadership position. Member positions are available on the Congress of Delegates, the Board of Directors, and AAFP Commissions.
Leadership Opportunities for You
Build Your Leadership Skills
Know what questions to ask an attorney before you hire one to review your contract.
How to Choose a Lawyer
READ MORE
BECOME A MEMBER TODAY
AAFP Membership and You
Access to the latest information, tools and resources you need to thrive in your new family medicine career.
update your PROFILE
Use a checklist to determine whether your contract is missing something important.
How to Review Your Contract
READ MORE
Get tips for successfully negotiating, and learn important changes to ask for.
How to Negotiate a Contract
READ MORE
Members only: Learn the provisions and elements of contracts and the employment contract process.
Your Guide to Employment Contracts
DOWNLOAD GUIDE
Members only: Review your contract and negotiate the best opportunity for your career.
Your Employment Contract Checklist
DOWNLOAD CHECKLIST
Family physicians give the top nine reasons why you should implement value-based payment.
9 Reasons to Try Value-based Payment
READ NOW
The care management components you and your team will need to perform to meet the goals of value-based payment.
The Role of Care Management & Coordination in Value-based Payment
Visit CARE MANAGEMENT
Care management and payment for patients with mental health issues.
Behavioral Health Integration
Code For BHI
Reduce your stress with accurate documentation and coding.
Evaluation and Management
Code For E/M
Learn quick tips that help reduce the burdens of prior authorizations.
Prior Authorization Practice Hack
WATCH NOW
Download this tool to get your arms around start-up expenses, monthly budgets, and revenue management.
Do you dream of starting a practice?
Visit PRACTICE GUIDES
Learn how to measure the financial health of your practice with this series of short videos.
Your Practice Finances
WATCH NOW
WATCH NOW
PRACTICE SELF-CARE
INFLUENCE YOUR CULTURE
Read more
Read more
Read more
Save the Date
BECOME A MEMBER TODAY
update your PROFILE
Access to the latest information, tools and resources you need to thrive in your new family medicine career.
AAFP Membership and You
Read more
Take Back Your Time
Administrative Simplification
Read more
Let your practice and patient priorities be heard.
Advocate for Fam Med
Read more
Check out recent advocacy activity, campaigns and wins.
Activity and Progress
SEE THE LATEST ADVOCACY WORK
Find out what the AAFP is doing to protect and advance the specialty of family medicine -- for you.
Fighting for Family Medicine
Advocacy and You
READ THE ARTICLE
Family Physician leaders share their ten keys to success.
Lessons from Leaders
READ THE ARTICLE
Keep ego from getting in the way of effective teamwork.
Humility in Leadership
READ THE ARTICLE
Practice these five leadership habits early in your career.
Leadership Habits
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Monday, April 23 - Thursday, April 26, 2025
Loews Kansas City Hotel, Kansas City, MO
Join your colleagues for a collaborative leadership experience.
AAFP Leadership Conference
Watch Videos
Improve your negotiation skills which can have a long-term positive effect on your career and personal life.
Members Only:
Free Negotiation Video Series
see AAFP LEADERSHIP POSITIONS
Share your passion as a new physician and help strengthen the specialty of family medicine by applying for an AAFP leadership position. Member positions are available on the Congress of Delegates, the Board of Directors, and AAFP Commissions.
Leadership Opportunities for You
Build Your Leadership Skills
INFLUENCE YOUR CULTURE
Learn operational and relational skills to create your optimal culture.
Create Your Culture
PRACTICE SELF-CARE
Increase your happiness through mediation and mindfulness.
Importance of Self-Care
WATCH NOW
Watch a diverse range of lectures on physician wellness.
Well-being CME
see PHYSICIAN WELL-BEING
As a new physician, there's nothing more important than being mindful of your well-being.
Put Your Health First
Maintain Your Well-being
SEE ALL AAFP LIVE EVENTS
Learn more
5/6/2024 - 5/8/2024
Physician Health and
Well-being Conference
Learn more
4/10/24
Obesity CME for the Family Physician Livestream
Learn more
3/18/2024
Global Health Webinar - Cultivating Cultural Humility in Global Health Practice Livestream
Learn more
5/19/2024 - 5/24/2024
Family Medicine Advocacy Summit
Upcoming Events
Live Events Are a Great Way to Increase Your Knowledge and Connect with Peers
Members only: Join interest-specific online communities and enjoy collaboration with peers while growing your professional network.
Member Interest
Groups (MIGS)
JOIN AN ONLINE COMMUNITY
Members only: Engage with your peers in a community designed for you to share, learn, inspire and network.
New Physician Issues Online Forum
JOIN AN ONLINE COMMUNITY
Connect with Your Peers
Starting Your Own Practice
Coding and Payments
Value-Based Payment
Practice Resources
WATCH NOW
Learn how to measure the financial health of your practice with this series of short videos.
Your Practice Finances
Visit PRACTICE GUIDES
Download this tool to get your arms around start-up expenses, monthly budgets, and revenue management.
Do you dream of starting a practice?
WATCH NOW
Learn quick tips that help reduce the burdens of prior authorizations.
Prior Authorization Practice Hack
Code For E/M
Reduce your stress with accurate documentation and coding.
Evaluation and Management
Code For BHI
Care management and payment for patients with mental health issues.
Behavioral Health Integration
Visit CARE MANAGEMENT
The care management components you and your team will need to perform to meet the goals of value-based payment.
The Role of Care Management & Coordination in Value-based Payment
READ NOW
Family physicians give the top nine reasons why you should implement value-based payment.
9 Reasons to Try Value-based Payment
See BUSINESS FUNDAMENTALS
Learn the principles of practice management and how to navigate the business side of medicine.
Business Fundamentals for New Physicians – Earn 14 CME Credits Online
See TOOLS AND RESOURCES
A library of tools and resources from videos to coding tables to help you start or refine your patient telehealth offerings.
Telehealth and Telemedicine
Read FPM
For many new physicians,
the area of practice management is new and exciting territory. Use the FPM Journal for information and ideas to improve your practice, your patients experience, and your career.
A Practice Management Resource for You
Managing Your Practice
Free Employment Contracting Guide and Checklist
Negotiating Employment Contracts
Job Search Resources
DOWNLOAD CHECKLIST
Members only: Review your contract and negotiate the best opportunity for your career.
Your Employment Contract Checklist
DOWNLOAD GUIDE
Members only: Learn the provisions and elements of contracts and the employment contract process.
Your Guide to Employment Contracts
READ MORE
Get tips for successfully negotiating, and learn important changes to ask for.
How to Negotiate a Contract
READ MORE
Use a checklist to determine whether your contract is missing something important.
How to Review Your Contract
READ MORE
Know what questions to ask an attorney before you hire one to review your contract.
How to Choose a Lawyer
Learn More
Working with a career coach can help you discover your ideal role, get back on track after a setback, and even improve your well-being.
Career Coaching for Physicians
Read CV Tips
Make your CV stand out with these formatting tips and example headings.
How to Write a CV
Land Your Best Job
See PATIENT WELL-BEING
Support for your patients who are struggling with emotional issues.
Mental Well-being
Take Course
Enhance your reproductive health knowledge with this free course designed specifically to fill skill gaps
Reproductive Health CME
ACCESS TOOLKIT
Confront disparities and bias to improve your patient outcomes.
Advancing Health Equity
Experience the magic of AAFP FMX and unite with your family medicine community.
2025 FMX Conference
DOWNLOAD THE APP
Your on-the go access to clinical recommendations, AFP and FPM journals, CME reporting and more.
AAFP Mobile App
Earn Clinical CME
Select clinical topics by free, format, date or location and enhance your patient care expertise.
CME by Topic
10/05/2025 - 10/09/2025
Anaheim, CA
Save the Date
2025 FMX Conference
subscribe today
Tune in and listen to the latest episode to get your clinical highlights for free.
AFP Podcast
read afp
Access concise, easy-to-read, evidence based clinical review articles.
AFP Journal
see clinical recommendations
Easily find evidenced-based resources to support your clinical decisions.
Latest Clinical Guidance and Recommendations
Keep Up on Your Clinical Expertise
Advocacy and You
Build Your Leadership Skills
Maintain Your Well-Being
Connect with Your Peers
Managing Your Practice
Land Your Best Job
Keep Up on Your Clinical Expertise
For the first years of your journey in family medicine, lean into an array of information and tools designed to address your needs and help you navigate your career.
New Physician Resources
toggle motion
Free Employment Contracting Guide and Checklist
View Dashboard
Looking for your next job? Get armed with real data just for family physicians—including compensation, benefits, and more.
Members Only:
Know Your Worth
Learn More
Working with a career coach can help you discover your ideal role, get back on track after a setback, and even improve your well-being.
Career Coaching for Physicians
Event Details
View Dashboard
Looking for your next job? Get armed with real data just for family physicians—including compensation, benefits, and more.
Members Only: Know Your Worth
View Dashboard
Looking for your next job? Get armed with real data just for family physicians—including compensation, benefits, and more.
Members Only: Know Your Worth
Learn More
Working with a career coach can help you discover your ideal role, get back on track after a setback, and even improve your well-being.
Career Coaching for Physicians
Find a Job
Find a Job
Learn more
5/19/2024 - 5/24/2024
Family Medicine Advocacy Summit
Global Health Webinar - Cultivating Cultural Humility in Global Health Practice Livestream
4/10/24
4/10/24
Increase your knowledge and connect with peers at events all over the country, on a variety of different topics and skills.
Live Events
See All AAFP Live Events
Increase your knowledge and connect with peers at events all over the country, on a variety of different topics and skills.
Live Events
See All AAFP Live Events
Increase your knowledge and connect with peers at events all over the country, on a variety of different topics and skills.
Live Events
See All AAFP Live Events