Family medicine's identity: Being generalists in a specialist culture?

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 455-459

  Stein, Howard F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict (psychology); Culture; Family practice; Generalism; Social identification; Social values; Specialties, medical

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICINE; FAMILY MEDICINE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MODEL; SHORT SURVEY; THEORY;

CULTURE; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SPECIALISM;

EID: 33749605480     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: 15441717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.556     Document Type: Short Survey

References (14)

1. Martin JC, Avant RF, Bowman MA, et al. The Future of Family Medicine: a collaborative project of the family medicine community. Ann Fam Med. 2004;2(Suppl 1):S3-32.
2. Stein HF. Family medicine as a meta-specialty - and the dangers of overdefinition. 1981. Fam Med. 1998;30:637-641.
3. Stein HF. The Psychodynamics of Medical Practice: Unconscious Factors in Patient Care. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press; 1985.
4. Stein HF. Polarities in the identity of family medicine: a psychocultural analysis. In: Doherty WJ, Christianson CE, Sussman MB, eds. Family Medicine: The Maturing of a Discipline. New York, NY: The Haworth Press; 1987:211-233.
5. Stein HF. American Medicine as Culture. Boulder, Colo: Westview Press; 1990.
6. Stein HF. Listening Deeply. Boulder, Colo: Westview Press; 1994.
7. Stein HF. Euphemism, Spin, and the Crisis in Organizational Life. Westport, Ct: Quorum Books; 1998.
8. Erikson EH. Identity and the Life Cycle, Selected Essays. Monograph, Psychological Issues. New York, NY: International Universities Press; 1959.
9. Erikson EH. Identity: Youth and Crisis. New York, NY: Norton; 1968.
10. Volkan VD. The Need to Have Enemies and Allies: From Clinical Practice to International Relationships. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson; 1988.
11. Volkan VD. Bloodlines: From Ethnic Pride to Ethnic Terrorism. Boulder, Colo: Westview Press; 1997.
12. Stephens GG. Developmental assessment of family practice: an insider's view. In: Doherty WJ, Christianson CE, Sussman MB, eds. Family Medicine: The Maturing of a Discipline. New York, NY: Haworth Press; 1987:1-21.
13. Frey JJ, 3rd. GP to FP to GP? Fam Med. 2003;35:671-672.
14. Engel GL. The need for a new medical model: a challenge for biomedicine. Science. 1977;196:129-136.