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From educational experiences to exciting events that help students and residents invest in their family medicine, the PAFP Foundation is where it all happens. The PAFP Foundation is a home for young leaders interested in pursuing family medicine as a career, students who have decided on practicing family medicine, and residents eager to learn and engage with the specialty.
Supporting the PAFP Foundation ensures that family medicine will continue to thrive in Pennsylvania, providing the highest quality of care to the Commonwealth’s nearly 13 million residents. Because the nation’s fifth-largest state deserves its first and foremost family physicians, the PAFP Foundation
- Empowers family physicians through education and research
- Engages family physicians in their state, their counties, and their communities
- Encourages family physicians to be leaders
- Enriches the quality and care of the family medicine specialty in the Commonwealth
The PAFP Foundation isn’t simply the future of the PAFP: it is the PAFP, working here and now to fulfill its mission to ensure physician-coordinated, personalized, and comprehensive quality health care for every Pennsylvanian.

The Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians Foundation is a non-profit organization under section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code and is registered with the
Pennsylvania Bureau of Charitable Organizations. All donations to the Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians Foundation are tax deductible.
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