About The LAFP

Mission

The mission of the Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians is to promote and support Louisiana's family physicians in providing excellent health care and to provide its members with continuing medical education opportunities.

Value of Membership

Being a member of the Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians (LAFP) signifies your decision to identify and associate with the most knowledgeable family physicians and become a part of America's largest specialty society. As the only association that speaks solely for the family physician, your decision to join the LAFP/AAFP helps make the voice of family medicine heard.

Member Benefits

CME Resources To provide high-quality, affordable care for all people, you must maintain and continuously improve your competency in family medicine. The LAFP and AAFP offers several state of the art continuing medical education programs each year.
Legislative Advocacy Representing more than 94,000 members, the LAFP/AAFP ensures the voice of family medicine is clearly heard.
Practice Management Assistance A healthy practice gives you more undivided, one on one time with your patients. The AAFP has developed programs and materials to help you streamline the management of your practice.
Patient Education As a family physician, your role in treating the whole patient includes encouraging healthy lifestyles. The AAFP offers a variety of programs and materials to help you help your patients make positive changes.
Communications You will receive a quarterly state magazine, and several national journals.

The Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians is one of the state’s largest medical specialty organization, with more than 1,500 member physicians, residents and medical students throughout the state. LAFP serves the family medicine community and provides a unified voice for family medicine. The American Academy of Family Physicians, LAFP’s parent organization, maintains a membership of more than 94,000 members in 50 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Guam.

Today the Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians maintains its headquarters in Baton Rouge, LA. Click here for the LAFP mailing address and other Academy contact information.

LAFP is governed by a board of directors, comprised of LAFP members from throughout the state. The board establishes and reviews Academy policy and plans during the LAFP Quarterly Board Meetings and General Assembly Meeting. Members also serve on LAFP committees, where they study, analyze and make informed policy recommendations to the board.

Major purposes of the Academy include:

Advocating for family physicians to lawmakers, organized medicine and the public;
Providing high-quality continuing medical education to physicians in Louisiana;
Keeping members informed of changes in health care; and
Nurturing the next generation of family physicians.

LAFP tracks and lobbies for legislation impacting family physicians and their patients. The Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians Political Action Committee (LaFamPac), the political voice of family medicine in Louisiana, speaks on behalf of Louisiana family physicians and their patients through grassroots involvement, personal relationships with elected officials and political campaign participation and contributions. LaFamPac is a non-partisan political action committee that supports candidates who support issues important to family physicians and their patients.

The Academy wishes to equip family physicians with beneficial tools for the continual improvement of the specialty. To do this, LAFP promotes the constant education of members to assist them with meeting the required 150 hours of approved continuing education every three years to retain membership. This requirement may be met through continuing education programs. LAFP offers two programs throughout the year: the Annual Scientific Assembly and the Winter Conference.

LAFP communicates to its members through its up-to-date Web site that contains information about CME activities, legislative issues, current medical news and other helpful resources. The Academy publishes a quarterly magazine, Louisiana Family Doctor, and several other smaller publications throughout the year. Members also receive Weekly Family Medicine Update, an electronic newsletter.

The Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians Foundation, supports educational and scientific initiatives of family medicine to improve the health of all Louisianans. Through the generous contributions of members, corporations and friends, the Foundation is able to raise and distribute funds for medical student scholarships to future family physicians, for research, for family medicine student interest group activities at medical schools in Louisiana and for family medicine resident activities.