BACKGROUND For more than 20 years,family medicine(FM)in Thailand is still looking for its place in our primary care healthcare system as an estab-lished specialty.Historically,primary care in Thailand was provided by ...BACKGROUND For more than 20 years,family medicine(FM)in Thailand is still looking for its place in our primary care healthcare system as an estab-lished specialty.Historically,primary care in Thailand was provided by the new graduates from the medical school.They were assigned to district hospitals as general practitioners(GPs)and were required to serve a 3-year period in various parts of the country.GPs have a primary medical qualification but have not undertaken a specialty in residency.They had to undergo‘on-the job’training while functioning as the first-contact medical care providers in their community.Until the inception of FM residency,GPs could apply for formal medical subspecialty training(similar to the US residency programmes)and could return to teaching hospitals only after the completion of 3 years.展开更多
文摘BACKGROUND For more than 20 years,family medicine(FM)in Thailand is still looking for its place in our primary care healthcare system as an estab-lished specialty.Historically,primary care in Thailand was provided by the new graduates from the medical school.They were assigned to district hospitals as general practitioners(GPs)and were required to serve a 3-year period in various parts of the country.GPs have a primary medical qualification but have not undertaken a specialty in residency.They had to undergo‘on-the job’training while functioning as the first-contact medical care providers in their community.Until the inception of FM residency,GPs could apply for formal medical subspecialty training(similar to the US residency programmes)and could return to teaching hospitals only after the completion of 3 years.
