title: Family medicine in Japan.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Practice, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA.
authors.forename: B W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Demers
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Garcia-Shelton
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D004501:Education, Medical; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D007564:Japan