American Academy Of Family Physicians

To promote and maintain high standards of the practice of general and family medicine; to encourage and assist young men and women in preparing, qualifying, and establishing themselves in family and general practice; to preserve the right of the family and general practitioner to engage in medical and surgical procedures for which they are qualified by training and experience; to assist in providing postgraduate study courses for family and general practitioners and to encourage and assist other physicians and surgeons in participating in such training; to advance medical science, private and public health and to preserve the free choice of physician to the patient.