The medicine specialty which provides devoted to comprehensive health look after the individual and family. The scope of family medicine encompasses all ages, both sexes, each organ system, and each disease entity.Family medicine, formerly family practice, is a medical specialty devoted to comprehensive health care for people of all ages. The specialist is named a family physician or family doctor. In Europe, the discipline is often referred to as general practice and a practitioner as a general practice doctor or GP.Family practice as it is presently defined has only been officially recognized since 1969, but it developed from older models of general medical practice in which all of a patient’s health care needs were met by a single physician. At the beginning of the 20th century, almost all physicians in the world were general practitioners, but the increasing volume of medical knowledge and reforms in medical education—such as those triggered in the United States by the Flexner Report of 1910—gave impetus to growing specialization in medical practice. Whereas more than 80 percent of American physicians were in general practice at the turn of the century, fewer than 20 percent had general practices by the mid-1970s; a similar shift to more specialized practice occurred in other developed countries, though usually to a lesser extent. Such countries as Great Britain reinforced the traditional ideas of general medical practice by making the general practitioner the entry point to the health care system; however, even in these countries, medical education and social status tended to favour specialists over generalists. Few training programs were designed to meet the needs of the family practitioner.