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• family practice — family practitioner. medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification. * * * or family medicine or general practice Field of medicine that stresses comprehensive… …   Universalium

• family practice — n a medical practice or specialty which provides continuing general medical care for the individual and family abbr. FP called also family medicine * * * the medical specialty concerned with the planning and provision of the comprehensive primary …   Medical dictionary

• Family Practice Notebook — The Family Practice Notebook is a medical database focused on family practice.It is maintained by Scott Moses, MD, a physician from Minnesota.External links* [http://www.fpnotebook.com/index.htm Home] * [http://www.fpnotebook.com/about.htm… …   Wikipedia

• Physician assistant — A physician assistant/associate (PA) is a healthcare professional trained and licensed to practice medicine with limited supervision by a physician.[1] Conte …   Wikipedia

• Family medicine — differs from the traditional European general practitioner. In the U.S. family practitioners usually complete an undergraduate degree and then complete either the Doctor of Medicine degree (M.D.) or a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree (D.O.) …   Wikipedia

• Family physician — A physician who is educated and trained in family practice. Family physicians possess unique attitudes, skills, and knowledge which qualify them to provide continuing and comprehensive medical care, health maintenance and preventive services to… …   Medical dictionary

• Physician — A physician is a person trained in the art of healing. In reality, contemporary physicians express their skills by combining art with science. A physician is also referred to as a doctor of medicine. The term physician is used somewhat… …   Medical dictionary

• family doctor — noun a general practitioner who treats all the family members • Hypernyms: ↑general practitioner, ↑GP * * * I. noun or family physician : a general practitioner regularly called by a family in time of illness II …   Useful english dictionary

• practice — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 actual doing of sth VERB + PRACTICE ▪ put sth into ▪ I can t wait to put what I ve learned into practice. PREPOSITION ▪ in practice ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• Physician, family — A physician who is educated and trained in family practice. Family physicians possess unique attitudes, skills, and knowledge which qualify them to provide continuing and comprehensive medical care, health maintenance and preventive services to… …   Medical dictionary

• Physician writer — Physician writers are medical doctors who write creatively in fields outside their practice of medicine. Their works include short stories, novels, poetry, drama, screenplays, children’s literature, speculative fiction, scholarly works, essays,… …   Wikipedia