In the early years of the development of medical specialization, in 1923, Francis Weld Peabody said that patients got confused and did not know to apply to which branch as a result of specialization in medical disciplines; he emphasized that there should be a specialization branch that would take patients as a whole, but this warning did not attract much attention at that time. Studies on this view have only begun after the Second World War, and the beginning of specialization training of medicine has been in following years. On this issue, "General Health Specialization" had been placed in legal regulation of medicine at 1947 in Turkey and education of assistants began, but this educational process did not succeed. Then, training of specialization in medicine had been added to agenda with the stream of Alma-Ata Conference in 1978 and it took part in legal regulation under the name of “Family Medicine Specialization” with firstly its education and then its practise in Turkey in 1983.

The year 1947 can be considered as a starting year of training of specialization in Primary Health Care for Turkey. When did training of specialization in Primary Health Care start in other countries and especially in your own country?

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