Abstract
General Practice is a basic therapeutic-preventive discipline. It is open to all problems that are related to health and considers social-economic factors and the environment in which people live and work.
It is closest to patients within the meaning of local, temporal, economic and cultural availability. The main goal of General Practice is to ensure medical care corresponding with current scientific knowledge is provided adequately and this reflects the cultural maturity of the society.
This medical care is carried out by its own forces at the level of primary care or through the effective use of specialized services of secondary and tertiary care. The proposed concept of this discipline in the Czech Republic corresponds to this goal.
