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family practice

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family practice

 or family medicine or general practice

Field of medicine that stresses comprehensive primary health care, emphasizing the family unit. Practitioners must be familiar to some degree with medical specialties and, especially in health maintenance organizations, are now often gatekeepers who refer patients to specialists when necessary. Once virtually the only kind of medicine, family practice has been defined as a separate field only since increasing specialization in medicine led to a shortage of practitioners. A 1963 World Health Organization report stressing the need for medical education to focus on the patient as a whole throughout life led to specific programs in family practice.



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Prior to his medical administration position with Mountainside Hospital, he was residency director of the Mountainside Family Practice Associates and medical director and associate residency director at Somerset Medical Center.
Robert W. Brenner by Physician Executive
Malumed has been a physician in family practice of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group and the Permanente Group in Sacramento.
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Rear Admiral Hufstader's career as a Navy medical officer began in 1974 with internship at Naval Hospital, San Diego, and continued with assignments aboard USS Chicago (CG-11); Naval Hospital, Jacksonville, Florida where he completed Family Practice residency training; Naval Medical Clinic, Annapolis, Maryland; and the Naval Hospital, Millington, Tennessee.
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