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Principles Of Family Medicine

•          The patient-physician relationship is central to the role of the family physician
•          The family physician is a skilled clinician.
•          Family medicine is a community-based discipline.
•          The family physician is a resource to a defined practice population.
•          Family physician as an advocate

Principles of family medicine mainly consists of “4 P”s and “4 C”s

“4 P”s	“4 C”s
Primary or First contact	Community orientation
Personalized Care	Continuity of care
Prevention and health promotion	Comprehensive care
Patient orientated	Co-ordination of care

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HOSPITAL & PRIMARY CARE SETTING

There are a lot difference between hospital and primary care setting. The patients usually shows their true colors once they pay a visit to primary care however in hospital their status and family background tends to be invisible.

HOSPITAL	PRIMARY CARE
Patient’s time irrelevant	Patient’s time important
Closed or absent communication	Open, easy communication
Unclothed or often bed bound	Clothed and mobile
Dependent & helpless	Autonomous independent
In strange ( hostile environment)	In own environment
Reductionism	Holism

As a conclusion, we must ensure that the next generation of doctors are better educated and understand the potential of careers in high quality family medicine, with the provision of adequate training facilities. The graduates who enter other specialties must understand the role of family practitioners and the value of complementary relationships with them. The most important part is the number of primary care physicians should be directly proportionate to the health outcomes of a population and family physicians. Family physician is a fundamental and irreplaceable component of primary care.

Other related articles:

· Specializing in family medicine

· Principles of family medicine

· Types of primary care

Reference:

1. American Academy of Family Medicine

2. Malaysian Academy of Family Medicine