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- Published online January 22, 2014.
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- Curtis Handford, MD CCFP MHSc⇑
- Works in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at St Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Ont, and is Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto.
- Correspondence: Dr Curtis Handford, St Michael’s Hospital, 410 Sherbourne St, Toronto, ON M4X 1K2; telephone 416 867-3728; e-mail curtis.handford{at}utoronto.ca
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- Generalism is a distinctive clinical method
- In Canada, family practice is the epitome of generalist clinical practice
- Generalism has a scientific basis
- Generalists are often diagnosticians, sometimes curers, but always healers
- Society increasingly expects specialist attention, perhaps at their peril
- Demands on generalists are constantly shifting
- Generalists face challenges, including from within family medicine
- Generalist skill needs to be modeled for learners to engage
- Family physicians require particular learning to be effective generalists
- Family physicians are expert clinicians, not specialists
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