title: [General medicine as an academic discipline].
abstract: The aim of the article is to show emerging changes in the health care, which will require some adaptation of curricula of medical faculties. It also considers the role of general practice in those changes and it emphasizes the potential of general practice for the undergraduate medical education and for the primary care research. Three questions are discussed: What can the subject of general practice offer to medical faculties? What can the medical faculties do for the general practice? At universities, the discipline "General practice" should become, similarly to the real health care, the first bridge between books and the live human. At higher classes, it should represent a clinical field with its position in the health care system, with its definition and characteristics. Similarly to other countries, general practice should offer all attributes of a medical branch for the full accomplishment of medicals, including their scientific work and teaching. It would require further developing of its academic basis. Society will be then awarded with higher quality of medical care offered by general practitioners.
authors.affiliation: Ustav vseobecného lékarství 1. LF UK, Praha. seifert@terminal.cz
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Seifert
mesh_terms: D018153:Czech Republic; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans