China is the most highly-populated country in the world with increasing demand for health care. Family medicine can improve health care in China, and can supply good health outcomes, equitably and economically. Family medicine education in China currently exists in three models - resident training, on-the-job training, and undergraduate teaching - but only undergraduate teaching may provide more competent family physicians in China.1 A general description of undergraduate family medicine teaching in the last two decades is lacking and to determine the situation in China we sent a questionnaire to every Chinese medical school enquiring about family medicine teaching and analysed the results.
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