Florida·Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations·SOC 29-1215

Best Family Medicine Physician programs in Florida, ranked by enrollment

Diagnose, treat, and provide preventive care to individuals and families across the lifespan.

8 schools in Florida run programs that feed this job, graduating 1,429 people a year. The job pays a median of $227,700 in Florida across about jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).

Also calledPhysicianFamily PhysicianMedical Doctor (MD)Family Practice Physician (FP Physician)DoctorGeriatricianGeneral PhysicianFamily Practitioner
Graduates / yr
1,429
in Florida
Median pay · Florida
$227,700
BLS OEWS May 2025
Jobs in state
people employed
Schools
8
with a feeder program
Avg graduation rate
77%
across those schools
Median net price
$31,672
per year, IPEDS

Fields of study in Florida that lead to this job

Grouped at the 4-digit CIP level. Numbers are graduates per year in this state.

2 programs in Florida that lead to this job

Ranked by graduates per year in Florida (IPEDS completions). Graduate earnings and debt are national College Scorecard figures reported at the 4-digit CIP level, so specializations within one field share a figure. Each program also links to its own Florida page.

Degree programs that lead to this occupation, ranked by graduates per year
#ProgramGraduates / yrShare of pipelineSchoolsGrad earnings (1 yr)Median debt
1
Medicinemain feeder
CIP 51.1201In Florida
1,034
72.4%
8$33,290$23,488
2
CIP 51.1202In Florida
395
27.6%
1$33,290$23,488

Top 8 schools in Florida

Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 0 of the 8 schools in this state.

Schools ranked by graduates per year into this occupation
#SchoolGraduates / yrTop feeder programGrad earnings (1 yr)Grad rateNet priceAcceptance
1Nova Southeastern University
Fort Lauderdale, FL Private not-for-profit · 2 feeder programs
445Osteopathic Medicine/Osteopathy63%$31,67273%
2University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs
199Medicine84%$26,58919%
3University of South Florida
Tampa, FL Public · 1 feeder programs
181Medicine77%43%
4University of Florida
Gainesville, FL Public · 1 feeder programs
175Medicine91%24%
5Florida International University
Miami, FL Public · 1 feeder programs
137Medicine74%55%
6University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL Public · 1 feeder programs
118Medicine78%40%
7Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL Public · 1 feeder programs
113Medicine86%24%
8Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL Public · 1 feeder programs
61Medicine63%66%

All 8 schools in Florida

Every school in Florida with a program that feeds this job, ordered by graduates per year. Earnings are shown for the ranked schools above; open a school profile for the rest.

All schools in Florida that feed this occupation
SchoolCityControlGraduates / yrFeeder programs
Nova Southeastern UniversityFort LauderdalePrivate not-for-profit4452
University of MiamiCoral GablesPrivate not-for-profit1991
University of South FloridaTampaPublic1811
University of FloridaGainesvillePublic1751
Florida International UniversityMiamiPublic1371
University of Central FloridaOrlandoPublic1181
Florida State UniversityTallahasseePublic1131
Florida Atlantic UniversityBoca RatonPublic611

What family medicine physicians earn in Florida

What people already working in this job earn (BLS OEWS May 2025). Not graduate earnings.

Median annual in Florida
$227,700
Mean annual
$222,290
Jobs in state
What the range looks like
10th pct$75,020Median$227,70090th pct$392,610
Versus the national median
-6.7%

U.S. median $244,180. Florida pays below the national figure.

Metro areas in Florida

Sebring, FL
$386,750median
70 jobs
North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL
$321,550median
580 jobs
Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL
$322,030median
70 jobs
Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL
$243,940median
360 jobs
Port St. Lucie, FL
$239,990median
170 jobs
Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL
$247,090median
170 jobs
Naples-Marco Island, FL
$232,630median
250 jobs
Gainesville, FL
$222,820median
100 jobs

Job outlook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.

Projected growth 2024–34
+2.7%
About as fast as average
Openings per year
3,300
new jobs plus replacements
Employment change
3,100
116,000 → 119,100
Typical entry education
Doctoral or professional degree
Plus internship/residency

Growth and openings are national. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish employment projections at state level, so these figures describe the occupation across the whole U.S., not this state alone.

How to get in

The full skills, tools, and day-to-day breakdown lives on the national Family Medicine Physicians page.

How to become a Family Medicine Physician

Job zone 5 of 5 · SVP 8.0 and above
Typical entry education
Doctoral or professional degree
On-the-job training
Internship/residency

Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.

Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.

Top skills

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The same job in other states

Where else this occupation employs the most people, and what it pays there.

Related careers in Florida

Every major mapped to this job

The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.

All 9 majors mapped to Family Medicine Physicians2 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
  • 51.1201Medicine
  • 51.1202Osteopathic Medicine/Osteopathy
  • 61.0104Family Medicine/Emergency Medicine Combined Specialty Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0105Family Medicine/Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine Combined Specialty Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0106Family Medicine/Preventive Medicine Combined Specialty Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0107Family Medicine/Psychiatry Combined Specialty Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0112Internal Medicine/Family Medicine Combined Specialty Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0701Family Medicine Residency Program(no graduates reported)
  • 61.0799Family Medicine Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other(no graduates reported)

Common questions

Answers for people weighing family medicine physicians programs in Florida.

What degree do you need to become a Family Medicine Physician?+

Doctoral or professional degree is the typical entry-level education BLS reports for this occupation. The most common program people actually graduate from is Medicine, which awarded 1,034 degrees in Florida in 2024-25, 72.4% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.

Which college majors lead to becoming a Family Medicine Physician?+

The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 2 programs to this occupation. The largest are Medicine. Together they graduate about 1,429 people a year in Florida.

How much do family medicine physicians earn in Florida?+

The median is $227,700 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 6.7% below the U.S. median of $244,180. This is pay for people already working in the occupation, not the same thing as graduate earnings one year after finishing a degree.

Is demand for family medicine physicians growing?+

BLS projects a +2.7% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, about as fast as average, with roughly 3,300 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.

How many schools offer programs for this career in Florida?+

8 institutions in Florida reported graduates from at least one of the 2 programs that feed this occupation in IPEDS 2024-25. Rankings on this page use graduates per year, because the federal data publishes no enrollment count by program.

What other job titles do family medicine physicians work under?+

Employers advertise this work under many names. O*NET records Physician, Family Physician, Medical Doctor (MD), Family Practice Physician (FP Physician) among the most commonly reported, all mapping to SOC 29-1215.

Family Medicine Physicians in other statesNew YorkPennsylvaniaTexasCaliforniaIllinoisVirginiaMichiganOhio
Programs in FloridaMedicine

About the data on this page

Rankings use IPEDS completions 2024–25, degrees awarded per year. That is the closest federal measure of how many people a program puts into a career, because no federal dataset publishes enrollment by program. Wages and employment come from BLS OEWS May 2025, growth and openings from BLS Employment Projections 2024-34, and which majors lead to which jobs from the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills and tools are O*NET 30.3 (CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor/ETA).

  • BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics

    May 2025

    Wages, employment counts, location quotients and metro breakdowns.

  • BLS Employment Projections

    2024–34

    Projected growth, annual openings and typical entry-level education.

  • IPEDS Completions

    2024-25 (provisional)

    Graduates per year by program and institution — the ranking metric.

  • College Scorecard, Field of Study

    2020-21 cohorts

    Median graduate earnings one year after completion, and median debt.

  • Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes

    latest available

    Graduate earnings 1/5/10 years out, where the state participates.

  • NCES CIP 2020 and the CIP-to-SOC 2018 crosswalk

    CIP 2020 / SOC 2018

    Which college programs officially lead to this occupation.

  • O*NET Database 30.3

    30.3

    Tasks, skills, knowledge, tools, job zone and alternate job titles.

    Official source →CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor / ETA

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