family medicine
Generalist physician specialty
Family medicine is a medical specialty focused on comprehensive primary care for patients of all ages.
A family medicine physician—a family doctor or family practitioner—treats a wide range of conditions rather than specializing in one organ system or demographic.
The field emphasizes continuity of care, often following patients and their families across generations: Our family medicine doctor delivered both my children and now treats my parents.
Primary care doctor
- primary careFirst-line medical services
- residencyState of dwelling somewhere
- board certificationFormal professional competency verification
- outpatientTreated without admission
clinic · continuity of care · patient-centered · holistic · cradle-to-grave · generalist · scope of practice · attending physician
Health maintenance before disease
- acute careUrgent medical intervention
- wellness visitsRegular health maintenance appointments
- checkupsRoutine medical evaluations
- immunizationsInjections conferring disease resistance
screenings · diagnosis · treatment · health maintenance · vaccinations · physical exams · counseling · patient education
Medicine for minors
- geriatricsMedicine for the elderly
- adolescentsYouth approaching maturity
- adultsFully mature individuals
- newbornsRecently delivered infants
elderly · multigenerational · infants · toddlers · teenagers · young adults · middle-aged · seniors
general practitioner
Primary care doctor
- primary careFirst-line medical services
- residencyState of dwelling somewhere
- board certificationFormal professional competency verification
outpatient · clinic · continuity of care · patient-centered · holistic · cradle-to-grave · generalist · scope of practice · attending physician · ambulatory care
preventive care
Health maintenance before disease
- acute careUrgent medical intervention
- wellness visitsRegular health maintenance appointments
- checkupsRoutine medical evaluations
immunizations · screenings · diagnosis · treatment · health maintenance · vaccinations · physical exams · counseling · patient education · disease prevention
pediatrics
Medicine for minors
- geriatricsMedicine for the elderly
- adolescentsYouth approaching maturity
- adultsFully mature individuals
newborns · elderly · multigenerational · infants · toddlers · teenagers · young adults · middle-aged · seniors · women's health
- healthcaredoctors, nurses, hospitals, hospital, clinic
- medicinedoctor, doctors, hospital, surgery, treatment
- Biomedicineanatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, immunology
- medical specialtiescardiology, neurology, pediatrics, dermatology, oncology
- medical trainingmedical residency, medical schools, CPR, anatomical model, med schools
- primary caregeneral practitioner, general practice, primary care, GP, physicians
family medicineneurosurgery
Medical field treating brain surgically
cardiac surgery · superspecialist · cardiology · nephrology · gastroenterology
family medicinegeriatrics
Medicine for the elderly
pediatrics · neonatology · geriatric medicine · gerontology · internal medicine
family medicineemergency medicine
Urgent healthcare specialty
acute care · urgent care · trauma surgery · critical care · intensive care
family, familiar, medicine, unfamiliar, families, familial, familiarize, nonfamily, family practice