Lecture №8 Family medicine and its meaning in system of medical help to population The Term General Practitioner (GP) came into use at about the beginning of the 19th century Before that

• Lecture № 8

• Family medicine and its meaning in system of medical help to population

• The Term General Practitioner (GP) came into use at about the beginning of the 19th century
• Before that:
• Physicians
• Surgeons
• Apothecaries
• In the beginning of the 20th century the over helming majority of all physicians were Gps

• The History of Family Practice

• 1908 – 1910 Flexner study and report about the medical schools in USA and Canada
• --- shift towards specialization and subspecialization
• --- decrease no of Gps.
• Then the problem of the decreasing number of Gps and its implications started to be recognized.
• --- many medical leaders asked for decreasing specialty residences and increasing residencies in general practice.

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