In order to know the contents of diseases in family practice office, the out patient's chart were reviewed and analyzed.
All of the patients who visited the family practice office during the period of August, 1983 were selected and analyzed.
The total number of patients was 576.
The results of this study were as follows;
1. Total number of patients was 576 and among them, male was 40%, female was 68% respectively.
2. the age distribution of patients was 0 through 79 years old. The age group of 40-49 was the largest.
3. The prevalence of problems by organ showed gastro-intestinal disease was the top with the rate of 23% and musculoskeletal disease was 15% and etc.
4. The most frequent problem was hepatitis and then attention duficit disorder, gastritis, hypertension, general malaise, upper respiratory infection, knee pain, rhinitis, back pain, vaginits, neuralgia and etc. in order.

In order to describe the contents of Family Practice and propose a research model in primary care, 8,484 health problems were collected and analyzed from May 1, 1983 to October 31, 1983 in the Family Practice Center, Seoul National University Hospital.
The general findings are as follows:
1. The 1,792 patients composed of 46% of males and 54% of females. Patients less than 15 years were 23.3% and those older than 65 years were 2.6%.
2. During the 6 month period, the average number of visits per patient was 3.4, and it had no significant difference between both sexes, but had the tendency to increase with age.
3. The average health problems per patient-visit were 1.4.
4. 18 Family Practice residents and staffs used 308 health problems among the total of 362 from ICHPPC.
5. The 50th percentile of health problems were contained in 19 descriptive diagnoses, 70th percentile in 46, 80th percentile in 72, and 95th percentile were contained in 160 descriptive diagnoses. The morbidity pattern had no resemblance with those from the hospital patients and also differed from the Virginia study.
6. The Categories 16 (Signs, symptoms, ill-defined conditions and 18 Supplementary classification including preventive procedures) were 21.8% and 13.6% of all health problems respectively.
7. 91% of patients were expected to return at the specifiec time or if needed. The consulation/referral rate was 3.2%.
8. It is necessary to perform the collaborative study involving parcticing family physicians to improve and generalize the findings of this study.
9. It is necessary to develop the Family Practice residency curriculum on the basis of morbidity data of primary care in Korea and also we should not apply the foreign curriculum and health services procedures to our situation without modification.

In Korea, family medicine introduced in the later part of 1978.
Since then, a lot of progress has been made in family medicine.
However, there has been no baseline data so far. Therefore, to know the knowledge, attitude and practice toward family medicine among general population in Korea will be beneficial to the future development of family medicine.
For the first step, industrial workers were selected as the sample of this study.
Total number of persons who were interviewed was 177 and the result were as follows;
1. Among 177 interviewees, 55.7% heard about family medicine.
2. Among the nember who heard family medicine, 37.8% heard from newspaper, 25.6% from televison respectively.
3. 80.6% answered family medicine is really necessary in Korea and 72.7% said they will register to family medicine clinic in future.