General Practice Residency Training Program in Thai land : Past, Present, and Future

SOMJIT PRUEKSARITANOND, M.D.*, PRASONG TUCHINDA, M.D.**

Affiliation : *Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, **Faculty of Medicine, Rangsit University, Phya Thai 2 Hospital Compound, Bangkok 10400, Thailand.

AbstractThe General Practice was approved by the Thai Medical Council as a specialty in 1969. The residency training programs were revised in 1992. The first three - year rotating postgraduate residency training program was started in 1973 with a total of 9 programs by the late 1980s. Seven were in Bangkok, and the other 2 were in the North. The programs contained curricula objectives, clinical rotation in various disciplines including a general practice block in provincial or community hospitals. The weakness of the programs was the lack of a general practice department, a general practice trainer or preceptor and a general practice course organizer. Finally, the General Practi tioners Association played a little role in the postgraduate general practice residency. After the revision, the general practice residency was changed to family medicine resi dency training in 1999. The College of Family Physicians of Thailand was established to take a central role in postgraduate education.

Keywords : General Practice, Family Medicine, Residency Training Program

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