Future Direction of Family Medicine Training in India

All healthcare requirements of the citizens were managed previously by doctors of a different stream as ‘friend philosopher and guide’ available 24 × 7 from womb to tomb. They were sincere to diagnose almost all the problems (if not solutions). We all have experienced their care even at odd hours to be ‘People’s Doctor’. Specialization of medicine and its branches has become a trendy to produce experts who know more and more about individual body parts. The family physicians have become an ‘endangered species’. We are putting forward here an honest discussion about future of family medicine in India as an academic discipline for students teachers, regulators, health administrators and policy makers to consider.