{"id":21812,"date":"2013-05-29T09:24:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T13:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=21812"},"modified":"2015-03-05T16:16:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T21:16:14","slug":"aafp-recognizes-wsu-boonshoft-school-of-medicine-with-a-top-ten-award-for-working-to-meet-the-nations-need-for-family-physicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/05\/29\/aafp-recognizes-wsu-boonshoft-school-of-medicine-with-a-top-ten-award-for-working-to-meet-the-nations-need-for-family-physicians\/","title":{"rendered":"AAFP recognizes WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine with a Top Ten Award for working to meet the nation\u2019s need for family physicians"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AAFP President Jeff Cain, M.D., presents the AAFP Top Ten Award to Amanda Bell, M.D., Wright State associate professor of family medicine (left), and Dean Marjorie Bowman, M.D., M.P.A.<\/p><\/div>\n

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) honored the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine with a Top Ten Award for its consistent commitment to meeting the nation\u2019s need for family physicians.<\/p>\n

During the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine spring conference, the AAFP annually recognizes schools that graduated the greatest percentage of students who chose first-year family medicine residency positions during a consecutive three-year period. Known as the Top Ten Awards, this year\u2019s recognition was expanded to 12 schools to accommodate the growth in the number of geographically separated medical school campuses. There are 141 allopathic medical schools in the United States.<\/p>\n

At Wright State, 16.1 percent of medical school graduates are entering family medicine. The 2013 award recipients and the percentage of graduates entering family medicine are:<\/p>\n