Is there a difference between a family physician and a general practitioner? If so, what?
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GP is a generic term. Family Practice is the specialty that do what the old GP's did, but instead of doing it after a one-year internship as was common a generation and more ago, family practitioners have a three-year residency, so they're much better-trained. The idea was to use that extra two years' training to accelerate the knowledge base, so they'd start practice with the equivalent of ten years' experience. In fact, it's somewhat better than that.
not really, GP is the term they used back in the olden days, some still use it, but they are basically the same thing
They both mean the same thing. A title used a lot for the business itself these days is Family practice. Often you will hear a general practitioner called simply a G. P.
For practical purposes, probably not. General practitioners of years gone by sometimes practiced medicine after only a one year internship. When Family Practice residencies came into being and a board certification process was developed for them, they became called family practice doctors.
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