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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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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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