Fifty years ago, a revolution was occurring in American health care. Patients were becoming
aware of the implications of the increasing subspecialization of medicine. Leaders were …

The specialty of family practice evolved in the malandiate 1960s as a result of a perception
of health policymakers that the general physician who would provide comprehensive …

T he past five years have seen rapid emergence of the sp'e-■ cialty of Family Practice and
its companion academic discipline of Family Medicine. The American Board of Fami ly …

THE DEVELOPMENT of family practice as a new specialty is now a matter of history. It has
been almost eight years since the American Academy of General Practice officially changed …

From its modest beginnings in 1969 with 15 pilot family practice residency programs, the
specialty of family practice expanded to 394 family practice residency programs in 1992 …

The year I finished residency training there were 220 graduates of family practice residency
programs around the country. In July 1978, over 1,800 physicians graduated from residency …

The material for this chapter came from many sources and most of it has not been officially
published. The ideas contained in this chapter come from my experiences in the House of …

I wish to applaud Perry for a well-thought out vision for the future of family medicine
education. 1 However, with all due respect, I am going to disagree on his proposal for a 4 …

The new specialty of family practice is attracting increasing attention as a major step toward
improving the quantity and quality of primary, continuing, and comprehensive health care on …

A full decade has passed since the formation of the American Board of Family Practice in
1969, which led to the development of formally structured three-year graduate training …