Family Medicine

Family Medicine is the name of the growing global concept of postgraduate training in General Medical Practice. It is a special medical discipline and the practice of it is Family Practice. Physicians trained in this discipline become Family Physicians.

It is a discipline which has integrated the essentials of several medical specialties into a new whole for the purpose of caring for the medical needs of several people at a given time. Its approach to patient care is holistic, seeing the individual in his own totality and in the context of his family and community.