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Family Medicine: Current Concepts and Future Practice

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A young person entering an American medical school today might think that family medicine (FM) has always existed, with courses and clerkships in the predoctoral curriculum, hundreds of postgraduate programs across the country, and the presence of residency trained, board-certified family physicians in the community serving as role models. But that assumption would be wrong.

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  1. Department of Family and Community Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA

    Robert B. Taylor

  2. Department of Family Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, School of Medicine, Portland, OR, USA

    Robert B. Taylor

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  1. Department of Family Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

    Paul M. Paulman

  2. Department of Family and Community Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia, USA

    Robert B. Taylor

  3. Department of Family Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

    Audrey A. Paulman

  4. Department of Family Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

    Laeth S. Nasir

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Taylor, R.B. (2017). Family Medicine: Current Concepts and Future Practice. In: Paulman, P., Taylor, R., Paulman, A., Nasir, L. (eds) Family Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04414-9_1

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