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A Frontier of Family MedicineThe Revival of Obstetrics
Mark E. Deutchman, MD
Arch Fam Med. 1993;2(2):139-140.
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A SIGNIFICANT event occurred very quietly in Salt Lake City, Utah, from May 7 through 10, 1992. Approximately 300 family physicians assembled for a variety of lectures, workshops, and seminars collectively titled, "Family-Centered Perinatal Care." This event was cosponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. Although these professional organizations blessed the meeting, it arose as a grass-roots effort from groups of practicing community and academic family physicians who had been planning it for several years.
This gathering was not just another continuing medical education course. It was a recognition and a reaffirmation by the family practice establishment, pushed by its members, that perinatal care is an inseparable part of family medicine, which is not dead, but, on the contrary, is enjoying a revival stimulated by its members' interests and its patients' needs. There was indeed a revival-type spirit at the meeting
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Author Affiliations
Memphis, Tenn
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