Lekarz rodzinny jako wyraz nowego podejścia do opieki nad pacjentem

Abstract

Family medicine is an academic and scientific discipline, with its own educational content, research, evidence base and clinical activity, and a clinical specialty oriented to primary care, family doctors are specialist physicians trained in the principles of the discipline. We present in the paper main tasks of family doctors taking health promotion and prophylaxis into special consideration as well as patients’ expectations to family doctors.