Career Pathway of Family Medicine

The specialty of family medicine was created in 1969 to fulfill the generalist function in medicine, which suffered with the growth of subspecialization after World War II.” Since the specialty’s creation, family medicine has provided personal, front-line general medical care to patients of all...

• Family medicine is an internationally recognized discipline encompassing the knowledge domain and medical specialty of primary care doctors, stemming from the historic tradition of general practice. It focuses on comprehensive care for individuals and their families, considering physical, psychological, and social aspects, covering all organs and genders across all age groups.