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Family Practice Vol. 13, No. 4, 351-356
© Oxford University Press 1996

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Family practice development around the world

Cynthia Haq, William Ventres*, Vincent Hunt**, Dennis Mull{dagger}, Robert Thompson{ddagger}, Marc Rivo and Philip Johnson|

Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin Medical School 777 South Mills St, Madison, WI 53715, USA
*Universidad Nacional Experimental de Tachira San Cristobal, Venezuela, USA
**Brown University School of Medicine Pawtuckett, Rhode Island, USA
{dagger}Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at El Paso El Paso, Texas, USA
{ddagger}Department of family Medicine, University of texas–Medical Branch Galveston, Texas, USA
Health resource Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, US Public Health Service Rockville, Maryland, USA
|Aga Khan University Karachi, Pakistan

There is a global need for family physicians to serve as cornerstones of comprehensive primary health care systems. In order to meet this need, it is necessary for each country to provide these physicians with a thorough education focused on the relevant health care problems of the population being served.

Keywords. Family medicine education, international family medicine.


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