Family
and General Practice
Family Practice is comprehensive medical care with particular emphasis
on the family unit, in which the physician's continuing responsibility
for health care is not limited by the patient's age or sex, nor by a
particular organ system or disease process. After medical school, a family
practice physician completes a two- to four-year residency program, which
includes training in pediatrics, internal medicine, obstetrics,
gynecology, psychiatry and community medicine.
Family practice physicians treat patients of all ages, from the newborn
period to the elderly population. A primary objective is to help patients
stay healthy by stressing health education, maintenance and the prevention
of illness.
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