Key Points
FHCs, a part of the Kerala governments healthcare framework, are an extension of primary health centres (PHCs) and offer a broader range of services, while working towards providing holistic primary care to all age groups...
Yet, family medicine as a concept is not even taught in the MBBS curriculum as on date, Kumar said.. While some hospitals have been offering DNB in the stream since the 1980s, the first PG course in the stream was launched in 2011 at the Government Medical College in Kozhikode, Kerala...
Paul, member (health), Niti Aayog, said the government was clear in its intent to promote family medicine in Indias healthcare and medical education systems...
With time, however, medical science has changed tremendously and it was felt that on the lines of the West, the family-medicine doctor who could cater to the primary healthcare needs of an entire family should also be trained after the basic degree in medicine, he said...
Family doctors and family hospitals doctor-owned small nursing homes are the need of the hour to provide affordable and ethical primary and secondary healthcare, said Dr Ravi Wankhedkar, a senior member of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), the largest network of doctors...
