Family Medicine

PEI is the first province in Canada to formally recognize all family medicine physicians as specialists, which is reflected in the increased payment rates and equal access to continuing medical education. There are two rates for family physicians, depending on the practice style.

Focused Family Medicine (FFM) refers to physicians who do not hold a patient panel or for family physicians who spend less than 0.6 of their FTE with a patient panel.

Salary $296,127 | Contract Hourly Rate $185/hour - (April 1, 2025)

Longitudinal Family Medicine (LFM) refers to family physicians who have a patient panel and spend at least 0.6 of their FTE in the primary care office. Time spent providing rural ED services and in-patient care also counts as part of that 0.6 FTE.

Salary $325,455 | Contract Hourly Rate $202/hour - (April 1, 2025)

Patient Panel Incentive Program: Eligible LFM specialists (on salary and contract-for-services) will receive an annual incentive if they exceed the panel size benchmark assigned to them. The program applies to LFM specialists who work a minimum of 0.8 FTE and dedicate a minimum of 0.6 FTE to LFM services, which includes inpatient care and rural family medicine. For physicians practicing in PEI before April 1, 2025, palliative care, MAiD, SHORS, addictions care medicine, family practice anesthesia, family medicine obstetrics, and unaffiliated prenatal care will also count toward their FTE for the incentive. The physician will receive the incentive for every additional 100 patients (up to 600 patients) beyond their individual panel benchmark where elligible. Targets will be unique to each physician and adjusted up or down based on their full-time/part-time status, and amount of time spent on services outside of practice (i.e. in-patient care).