The specialty of family medicine is centered on lasting, caring relationships with patients and their families.
Family physicians integrate the biological, clinical and behavioral sciences to provide continuing and comprehensive health care.
The scope of family medicine encompasses all ages, sexes, each organ system and every disease entity.
Read more about the history, scope and definition of family medicine.
Family medicine is a three-dimensional specialty, incorporating
(1) knowledge,
(2) skill and
(3) process.
At the center of the process element is the patient-physician relationship with the patient viewed in the context of the family.
It is the extent to which this relationship is valued, developed, nurtured and maintained that distinguishes family medicine from all other specialties.