The pros for recognition of General Medicine as specialty:
1. The perspective of an European curriculum/European training programs for General Medicine, taking into account the nowadays variety of these, both in duration and in content
2. Recognition through automatic mechanism as specialty not as qualification
3. Preventing the interference of political and administrative authorities in the regulation of the Family Medicine (i.e. the intention of some governments to replace generalist practitioner physicians with nurses)
4. Equality with other specialties for the access to training and CME, for the accreditation of the events, the right to be elected and to vote in representative national medical organizations and for the representation
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Any specialty, in addition to the domain of activity, must have a core of principles and rules needed to delineate and to distinguish themselves from other specialties. GM principles are derived from concrete problems that must be solved: the need for accessibility of patients to healthcare, the prolonged evolution of some diseases that implies the continuity of care, the impossibility of "fragmentation" of the body,