Family Practice Medicine

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
FPM
Pronunciation
/ˈfæməli ˈpræktɪs ˈmɛdəsən/
Category
Medical
Related Field
Hospitals

Examples in Context

  1. In addition to family practice, internal medicine, and specialties for specific body systems, it includes research, public health, epidemiology, and pharmacology.
  2. They're training in OB-GYN, in family practice, internal medicine, emergency medicine, even pediatrics.
  3. Once virtually the only kind of medicine, family practice has been defined as a separate field only since increasing specialization in medicine led to a shortage of practitioners.

Other meanings of FPM