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Family medicine stands at a critical point in its history. To achieve a place of enhanced
prominence within American medicine, the discipline must acknowledge the fundamental …

Family Medicine residency programs must change substantially to prepare for new family
physicians a model of practice for the 21st century. This article describes 10 essential skills …

Abstract Background and Objectives: The Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice (P4)
project (2007 to 2014) involved a comparative case study of experiments conducted by 14 …

When the basic structure and content of family medicine residency training was defined in
the 1960s, the overarching goal was to replenish the ranks of declining numbers of general …

636 October 2005 Family Medicine “generally speaking, about half the time of the basic
integrated program should be devoted to training in the setting of an appropriate model of …

We are now at the end of the beginning of re-envisioning the future of residency education in
Family Medicine. On December 6-7, 2020, after almost a year of preparation …

The family medicine community has come together in the Future of Family Medicine Project
in an attempt to be clear about its work and values and to address the frustrations of both its …

After two years of intensive study, in 2004 the Future of Family Medicine report concluded
that the current US health care system is inadequate and unsustainable, and called for …

BACKGROUND For family physicians to be prepared to deliver the core attributes and
system services of family medicine in the future, especially within the New Model of family …