Family Medicine

Abstract

The Faculty of Medicine of this University has decided that from now onwards every student shall be provided with the means of not only observing, but of actively participating in, the provision of medical care for patients in their own homes. The task of making the necessary arrangements is the responsibility of the University's General Practice Teaching Unit. It gives me particular pleasure to accept an invitation from the Royal Medical Society to contribute to its journal an article on this Unit, its history, aims, philosophy, and teaching methods.