Occupation or Discipline
family medicine
fam·i·ly med·i·cine
Subclass of:
general practice (field)
Definitions related to family medicine (field):
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(family practice) A medical specialty concerned with the provision of continuing, comprehensive primary health care for the entire family.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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(family practice) A medical specialty that provides comprehensive health care for all members of a family regardless of age or sex.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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(family medicine) Medical specialty concerned with the planning and provision of comprehensive primary health care of all members of a family, regardless of age or sex, on a continuing basis.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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Family practice, field of medicine that stresses comprehensive primary health care, regardless of the age or sex of the patient, with special emphasis on the family unit. Family practice as it is presently defined has only been officially recognized since 1969, but it developed from older models of...Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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