family practice

noun

: a medical practice or specialty which provides continuing general medical care for the individual and family

called also family medicine

Examples of family practice in a Sentence

She plans to enter family practice when she graduates from med school.

Recent Examples on the Web

When the family practice doctor overseeing the case asked for a peer-to-peer review, the insurance company physician defending the denial was an ob-gyn specialist. —Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2023

Does your family practice the Christmas Pickle tradition? —Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 29 Oct. 2023

During the month-long investigation into the suspect, authorities from Winter Springs found that Mena used her own square account to steal approximately $44,000 from 76 patients who frequented the family practice, police said. —Jon Haworth, ABC News, 26 July 2023

Dissimulation was a family practice. —John Lahr, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020

Gore Panter, who plans on going into family practice, is expected to graduate with her medical degree in 2025. —Catherine Garcia, The Week, 23 Feb. 2023

Soon after, Alex issued statements announcing that was leaving the family practice and entering rehab for a longstanding opioid addiction. —Fox News, 2 Feb. 2023

Smith closed his brick-and-mortar family practice during the pandemic to focus on ketamine by telemedicine, where patient demand was higher. —Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2022

Emma Ketteringham, who heads the Bronx Defenders’ family practice and participated in the survey, said that nothing appeared to have changed at A.C.S. since the report. —Andy Newman, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1838, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

family practice

noun

: a medical practice or specialty which provides continuing general medical care for the individual and family

—abbreviation FP

called also family medicine