Career & Support
For Your Practice
Whether you’re exploring ways to improve your practice or looking for alternatives to your current practice setting, this resource center is here to support you.
Family Medicine Career Benchmark Dashboard, a first-of-its-kind tool for the specialty that provides comprehensive compensation and job satisfaction data for free to AAFP members.
Managing your career helps with your next step, with career planning, contract help, finance management and more for members.
Getting Paid is not as easy as it should be.
WAFP Business of Medicine are six recorded sessions crafted with employed physicians in mind.
Library of practice management tools. Explore AAFP’s library of tools to help you with your practice, either as an independent practice or within a larger system.
Insurance: Available through your membership, AAFP Insurance offers insurance options and financial advice for your professional and personal needs.
Clinical Practice Guidelines by AAFP.
Learn about direct primary care (DPC), how it can benefit you and your patients, and what resources can help you start or optimize your own DPC practice.
License Renewals go through the Washington State Department of Health.
Free state-funded consultation programs for physicians to access.
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- UW Psychiatry Consultation Line. Helps prescribing providers seeking clinical advice regarding adult patients (18+) with mental health and/or substance use disorders. Prescribing providers can call 877-927-7924 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
- Partnership Access Line (PAL): PAL supports primary care providers with questions about child and adolescent mental health care. Child and adolescent psychiatrists are available to consult by calling 866-599-7257.
- Partnership Access Line for Moms: PAL for Moms provides perinatal mental health consultation, recommendations and referrals for providers caring for pregnant or postpartum patients. Any physician or other provider in Washington state can access the service by calling 877-725-4666 (PAL4MOM) or emailing ppcl@uw.edu.
For Your Health
Everyone needs connection, community, and support. Find your joy through the community of family physicians.
Join Washington family physicians who share your interests.
Member Interest Groups providing a forum for collaboration, idea-sharing, and advocacy among family physicians, residents, and students
Washington state family medicine chapters throughout the state
UW Medicine Network of Underrepresented Residents and Fellows.
Interested in connecting with family physicians in your area of the state?
AAFP Physician Well-being: Tools and Resources to help you navigate the journey of physician wellness and find joy in practice.
Washington Physicians Health Program: Assisting health care professionals with medical conditions that may affect their ability to practice medicine safely.
Physician Support Line: Psychiatrists helping physicians and students navigate the intersections of personal and professional lives.
Increase your fun in family medicine by exploring new expertise and recognizing the excellence of your colleagues.
AAFP awards recognize family physicians for their exceptional contributions.
The WAFP Foundation offers scholarships and awards encouraging medical students, residents, and family physicians to develop their leadership skills, conduct research, and acknowledge the contributions of family physicians in our state.