General practice (family medicine): meeting the health care needs of Nepal and enriching the medical education of undergraduates.
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his paper proposes that the discipline of General Practice (Family Medicine) appropriately trains doctors to meet the identified health needs of Nepal and can make an extremely valuable contribution to the medical education of undergraduates. The paper will identify the current health needs of Nepal as revealed in The Human Resources Report of His Majesty’s Government (HMG) 2003 and demonstrate how family doctors are ideally qualified to meet a major part of these needs. It will go on to show that including General Practice (Family Medicine) in the undergraduate curriculum will both increase the number of doctors seeking to train and work as family doctors, as well as enriching the education of all medical undergraduates. Throughout the paper I will use the terms “family doctor” and “Family Medicine” in the understanding that these also apply to general practitioners and family physicians and General Practice and Family Medicine. Different terminology is used internationally and in Nepal
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Kathmandu University medical journal
دوره 3 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005