BACKGROUND Recognizing fundamental flaws in the fragmented US health care systems
and the potential of an integrative, generalist approach, the leadership of 7 national family …

As the US health care delivery system undergoes rapid transformation, there is an urgent
need to define a comprehensive, evidence-based role for the family physician. A Role …

PURPOSE More than a decade ago the American Academy of Family Physicians, American
Academy of Family Physicians Foundation, American Board of Family Medicine, Association …

BACKGROUND To lay the groundwork for the development of a comprehensive strategy to
transform and renew the specialty of family medicine, this Future of Family Medicine task …

The family physician is the physician generalist who takes professional responsibility for the
comprehensive care of unselected patients with undifferentiated problems and who is …

BACKGROUND. Most efforts to improve health care have been made without a full
understanding of the value of a primary care approach. METHODS. This article synthesizes …

Although progress is being made toward defining the family physician and the specialty of
family practice, there remains a need to describe more clearly a conceptual base for family …

" This guidebook systematically analyses the contribution of family medicine to highquality
primary health care in addressing the challenges faced by current health systems, and …

The terms" family practice" and" family medicine" refer to different levels of activity and
should be kept conceptually distinct. Using family practice and family medicine …

Abstract" Family-Centered Medical Care" illuminates the inner workings of family practice
medicine. Seventy-one vivid case descriptions by family physicians and collaborating …