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doi: 10.1001/archfami.6.1.59.
Family medicine in Japan
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- DOI: 10.1001/archfami.6.1.59
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Family medicine in Japan
Arch Fam Med.
1997 Jan-Feb.
Abstract
Two networks of medical care have grown up in Japan: 1 network based in hospitals and 1 based in private clinics. Most physicians in clinics practice general medicine, although only a small proportion of them are trained in primary care. Postgraduate medical education is oriented toward the training of specialists. Owing to the impending retirement of the cohort of clinic-based physicians who have dominated medical politics in Japan, the system is expected to change substantially in the next decade. Among the reformers is a small group of physicians who are attempting to introduce family practice.
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