… 138 family physicians in 84 practices included direct observation of 4454 patient visits were
used to describe aspects of family … Family physicians provide and coordinate care for a wide …

… in these specialties and those in internal medicine were more likely than family physicians
to be dissatisfied with their careers. Among the specialty areas most satisfying was geriatrics. …

… Family physician opportunities for preventive medicine Important changes on preventive
medicine resulting from implementation of family physician … centrality in family physician plan …

… Medical Education Family Medicine Milestones definition. … family medicine could become
without change. The following definition was selected: “Family physicians are personal doctors …

… between family members of ICU patients and ICU physicians. The family-physician … is
provided to the family by the ICU staff. Although information is only one component of the …

… of nurse practitioners and family physicians working in … healthcare resources, especially
family physicians, far more efficiently and … interdisciplinary teams that include nurse practitioners. …

… had regular family doctors. Those with regular doctors whose visits were to family physicians
… Adults with regular doctors whose visits were to family physicians less than 50% of the time …

… family medicine; 5 focus groups with family physicians; 13 focus groups with patients (2
groups with patients who had a family physician, 4 … who did not have family physicians, 2 rural …

… The latter is the point of view we have taken, and in this book we have used the terms family
physician and general practitioner interchangeably. Family medicine is the term we use for …

… physician for about 7000 population FPs (in rural health centre) were general physicians with
no special training in family medicine. … Now we can see our family physician on the day that …