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Family medicine [note 1] is a medical specialty within primary care that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family across all ages, genders, diseases, and parts of the body.
An interdisciplinary study center consisting of an historical research library, archives and museum center, the CHFM actively documents, collects, organizes, preserves and exhibits organizational records, personal papers, books, artifacts and other materials in all formats relating to the history of general practice, family practice and family medicine in America.
In medicine, a family history (FH or FHx) consists of information about disorders of direct blood relatives of the patient. [1] Genealogy typically includes very little of the medical history of the family, but the medical history could be considered a specific subset of the total history of a family.
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) was founded in 1947 to promote and maintain high-quality standards for family medicine, an offshoot of the classical general practitioner. It is headquartered in Leawood, Kansas .
By 1968, he had moved his family away from his father and to the University of Western Ontario as the first chair of family medicine in Canada. He became admired as the ‘Osler’ of Canadian family physicians. [3] [4] He published around 110 articles during his lifetime and is best remembered for his influential A Textbook of Family Medicine. [4]
The American Board of Family Medicine is the second largest medical specialty board in the United States. Its purposes include: Improving the quality of medical care available to the public; Establishing and maintaining standards in the specialty of family medicine; Improving the standards of medical education for training in family medicine
The World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) is a global not-for-profit professional organization representing family physicians and general practitioners from all regions of the world. WONCA's mission is to improve the quality of life of the people of the world through high standards of care in general practice/family medicine. [1]
The History of Women, Health, and Medicine in America: An Encyclopedic Handbook (Garland Publishing, 1990) Numbers, Ronald L. "The History of American Medicine: A Field in Ferment" Reviews in American History 10#4 (1982) 245-263 in JSTOR; Shryock, Richard H. "The Significance of Medicine in American History."