Apply For Degree of Fellow

The Degree of Fellow recognizes AAFP members who have distinguished themselves among their colleagues, as well as in their communities, by their service to family medicine, by their advancement of health care to the American people, and by their professional development through medical education and research.  Fellows of the AAFP are recognized as champions of family medicine. They are the physicians who make family medicine the premier specialty in service to their community and profession.

Any Active, Life or Inactive member, with dues and re-elections in good standing, may, after application to the American Academy of Family Physicians, be elected to receive the Degree of Fellow upon fulfilling requirements.