ReviewCureus2022
Need of the Hour: Family Medicine in India.
Review in Cureus, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Evaluation of the foundation course in family medicine: A pioneering approach in India.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2026Article
- Strengthening the evidence and implementation framework for family medicine in MBBS curriculum.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2025Article
- Family medicine: The missing mother specialty of MBBS.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2025Article
- Experience of establishing a family medicine OPD at a tertiary care level hospital in North India.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2025Review
- Challenges and reforms in family medicine: Perspective of Indian family physician.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2025Article
- Assessing the landscape of family medicine in India: A focus on qualification and practice patterns.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2025Article
- Comprehensiveness in Primary Care: A Scoping Review.The Milbank quarterly · 2025Article
- Perception of family medicine as the career option among young Indian graduates.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2023Article
- Knowledge, attitude, and practice of patients, visiting a private primary level health care facility towards family physicians.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2023Article
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5 authors.
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Abstract
Family medicine practitioners can manage a wide range of health problems, either directly or through referral to other specialists, thereby optimizing the cost-effectiveness of the healthcare system. For most health problems, family medicine practitioners serve as an entry point for individualized healthcare. Providing comprehensive care for most specialties for all ages is the hallmark of family medicine. It is recognized as a distinct specialty in many developed countries, and training is provided through organized residency programs. Family medicine has been incorporated in the foundation course of Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) and is planned to be adopted in all medical institutes in India; however, the MBBS syllabus includes no mention of it. In medical schools in India, fully functioning family medicine departments should be established on an urgent scale. It is necessary to take the required measures to introduce the subject into the undergraduate MBBS program and to generalize it across India. It is recommended that the number of medical schools offering postgraduate residency training in family medicine be increased to meet current community health needs.
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