Family practice medicine is a medical specialty within primary care that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family across all ages, genders, diseases, and parts of the body.
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11 Facts About Family practice
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American Board of Family Medicine requires its diplomates to maintain certification through an ongoing process of continuing medical education, medical knowledge review, patient care oversight through chart audits, practice-based learning through quality improvement projects and retaking the board certification examination every 7 to 10 years.
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The American Osteopathic Board of Family practice Physicians requires its diplomates to maintain certification and undergo the process of recertification every 8 years.
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General Family practice is the term used in many other nations, such as the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
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Family practice physicians deliver a range of acute, chronic, and preventive medical care services.
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Family practice physicians manage chronic illness, often coordinating care provided by other sub-specialists.
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Many American Family practice Physicians deliver babies and provide prenatal care.
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Potential ways to increase the number of medical students entering family practice include providing relief from medical education debt through loan-repayment programs and restructuring fee-for-service reimbursement for health care services.
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Under the pressure of the Coronavirus epidemic in 2020 general Family practice shifted very quickly to remote working, something which had been progressing very slowly up to that point.
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Family practice medicine came to be recognized as a medical specialty in India only in the late 1990s.
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Family practice medicine was first recognized as specialty in 2015 and currently has approximately 500 certified family doctors.
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