Family medicine in Japan.
Two networks of medical care have grown up in Japan: 1 network based in hospitals and 1 based in private clinics. Most physicians in clinics practice general medicine, although only a small proportion of them are trained in primary care. Postgraduate medical education is oriented toward the training of specialists. Owing to the impending retirement of the cohort of clinic-based physicians who have dominated medical politics in Japan, the system is expected to change substantially in the next decade. Among the reformers is a small group of physicians who are attempting to introduce family practice.
Smith
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Department of Family Practice, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA.
Demers
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Garcia-Shelton
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D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D004501:Education, Medical; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D007564:Japan