About the Society
The Society of Family Medicine Bangladesh (SFMB) is a professional body of family physicians working to advance family medicine and strengthen primary care across Bangladesh.
What is Family Medicine?
Family medicine is comprehensive, continuous and coordinated care for individuals and families across all ages, genders and conditions. SFMB works to advance family medicine, support family physicians and strengthen primary care throughout Bangladesh.
To promote family medicine, support family physicians, and strengthen primary care for healthier people and communities.
A healthier Bangladesh where every family has access to comprehensive, continuous and people-centred care.
Our Objectives
The first SFMB Newsletter, in full
Eleven pieces on who we are, where family medicine came from, and what it asks of practice in Bangladesh.
The Society
- Our story Why the Society was founded, and the vision it was founded on. 5 min
- Who we are Our history, vision, mission, objectives and how the Society is governed. 3 min
- Messages from our leadership Opening words from the President, the General Secretary and the Editor-in-Chief. 4 min
- Activities and membership The CME calendar, workshops, conferences and webinars — and how to join us. 5 min
Family Medicine
- History of Family Medicine From the traditional family doctor to a specialty recognised in over a hundred countries. 5 min
- Family Medicine in Bangladesh Where the specialty stands academically, what still holds it back, and why the country needs more family physicians. 11 min
- Family Medicine around the world What WONCA, the RCGP, the AAFP, the RACGP and the CFPC can teach us. 5 min
Practice and learning
- Prevention starts with primary care Vaccination, lifestyle counselling and screening — keeping people healthy before they become patients. 5 min
- Clinical frontline Practical clinical guidance for family physicians, starting with rational insulin initiation. 5 min
- Research and publishing Priority research areas for Bangladesh, and how to write for the SFMB Newsletter. 7 min
- Careers in Family Medicine For students choosing a specialty, residents in training, and physicians starting out in practice. 12 min