title: Family medicine as a model of transition from academic medicine to academic health care: Estonia's experience.
abstract: This paper presents the development of academic family medicine in an environment of traditional academic medicine at the Tartu University, Estonia. The introduction of university family medicine teachers to everyday practice and practitioners to academic teaching and research helps bridge the gap between theory and practice, and it shows changed approach to academic medicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, Tartu University, School of Medicine, Tartu, Estonia. heidi-ingrid.maaroos@kliinikum.ee
authors.forename: Heidi-Ingrid
authors.initials: HI
authors.lastname: Maaroos
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D004957:Estonia; D005194:Family Practice / Q000458:organization & administration*