Background: The practice of Family Medicine is important in the provision of primary health care. Family physicians (FPs) provide health services both in the public and private settings Objective: To describe the practice profiles and geographic aggregation of Filipino family physicians Methods: This study was a web-based cross-sectional design involving family physicians who are registered in the Philippine Academy of Family Physicians membership database. The questionnaire was semi-structured with 3 consecutive sections: consent form, basic demographics, practice profile of family physicians. Results: Overall, 95% (N=1357) of family physicians reported seeing patients in a health facility at least once a week. Thirty percent of physicians are from Luzon (N=426), 28% from the National Capital Region (N=395), 20% from the Visayas region (N=288) and 18% from Mindanao (N=261). There were more FPs who reported mixed-type clinical practice (51%) than those who were exclusively engaged in practice (49%). Involvement in the private sector was common among physicians who are in the clinics (59%), while employment in the public sector was commonly reported among those in mixed-type of practice (42%). Family physicians provide a wide range of clinical services including counselling, vaccinations, simple surgical excision, and palliative services. The average reported outpatient consultation fees of FPs was Php 321 (SD+120) per patient. Conclusion The practice profile of family physicians includes active clinical practice, employment in either the public or private sector, with a small fraction in solo clinic practice. The range of primary care services offered include management of chronic conditions, counselling, home visits, preventive care such as prenatal care, vaccinations and screening tests like pap smear
Physicians, Family ; Family Practice

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Acupuncture* ; Humans ; Physicians, Family*

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Humans ; Physicians, Family*

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Humans ; Physicians, Family*

The practice of family medicine extends from womb to tomb and provides opportunities to care for not just one but all members of the family. Regardless of the complaint that brings a patient to the clinic, a family physician's role is to provide comprehensive care for the patient, the family, to go beyond the biomedical approach, not just to treat the disease but also to address the impact of the illness, and to have a continuing plan for promoting the family's wellness. Families are greatly affected by the pres- ence of chronic illnesses in any of its members. How then does a family physician address the potential problems of a chronic disease in the family especially if the sick member is one of the parents, with an unborn child? This paper aims to discuss the circumstances and situational relationships of a family with pregnant mother with a newly diagnosed kidney disease that would require hemodialysis
Family Practice, Physicians, Family, Chronic Disease

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Diabetes Complications* ; Humans ; Physicians, Family*

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Humans ; Internship and Residency ; Physicians, Family

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Humans ; Physicians, Family ; Students, Medical

Periodic Health Examination and Prevention Guidelines for Koreans were first proposed since 1988. Based on that guideline, clinical preventive services has been applied to clinic population in a few University Hospitals since 1991. In 1995, LHMP development committee in Korean Academy of Family Physician Society first published evidence based clinical practice guidelines and updated the guidelines in 2003. Lifetime Health Maintenance Program (LHMP) commitee represents efforts to take a more updated evidence-based approach to the development of the third updated clinical practice guideline in 2009. We focused on approaches that can reliably assess the extent of updating required, a model of limited literature searches with modest expert involvement to reduce the cost and time.
Hospitals, University ; Humans ; Physicians, Family

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Environmental Medicine ; Humans ; Physicians, Family