He will have knowledge of the access to all health resources of the communitysocial. preventive. diagnostic. therapeutic and rehabilitativeand will mobilize them for the patient. The importance of the family practice physician is evident when we remember that the Americans most lacking medical care are those of low and modest incomes who lack the means and the family tradition of looking for the kind of medical care they need. The rural poor. the ghetto dweller. the elderly. the migrantthese are the people who have suffered most from the decline of the general practitioner. In February 1969. the American Medical Association approved an American Board of Family Practice. with powers to conduct examinations and grant certification to family physicians. A few medical schools are offering or developing courses leading to certification in this field. including the University of Texas Medical School at Galveston.
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