General practitioner
A general practitioner (GP) or family physician is a physician who operates a general practice and provides ambulatory care. The terms General Practice and Family Practice are often used interchangeably, though the latter is becoming more common. The field is also referred to as "primary care".A Family Practice physician is board-certified in Family Medicine. Training includes a focus on the family as well as treating an individual throughout their life stages. Family physicians complete medical school and do one year of internship and 2 more years of specialized medical residency training in Family Medicine. Board Certified Family Physicians retake a board-like exam every 7 years to remain certified. The American Board of Family Medicine has begun to move away from these certification exams. The Board has created a program called the Maintenance of Certification Program for Family Physicians which will require family physicians to continuously demonstrate proficiency in four areas of clinical practice: professionalism, self assessment/lifelong learning, cognitive expertise and performance in practice. Family physicians specialize in primary care (prevention) as well as secondary care (disease modification). Some also do minor surgery or obstetrics while others focus on Occupational Health or Sports Medicine.
| Health science - Medicine |
| Anesthesiology - Dermatology - Emergency Medicine - General practice - Intensive care medicine - Internal medicine - Neurology - Obstetrics & Gynecology - Pediatrics - Public Health & Occupational Medicine - Psychiatry - Radiology - Surgery |
| Branches of Internal medicine |
| Cardiology - Endocrinology - Gastroenterology - Hematology - Infectious diseasess - Nephrology - Oncology - Pulmonology - Rheumatology |
| Branches of Surgery |
| General surgery - Cardiothoracic surgery - Neurosurgery - Ophthalmology - Orthopedic surgery - Otolaryngology (ENT) - Plastic surgery - Urology - Vascular surgery |