Family medicine practice challenges during Covid-19 outbreak, curfew and phased re-opening, lessons to be learned from jordanian experience.

Background: Rapid outbreak of Novel Corona Virus Disease (Covid-19) had a significant disrupts and challenges to many of well-established, traditional structure of medical Care, The family medicine practice in Jordan as many other countries has been challenged and severely strained due to the pandemic as well as the strict lockdowns and curfew that implanted in order to control the spread of the disease, in which major if not all family medicine outpatient's clinics were temporary suspended which negatively impact proper health care delivery to many patients.

Objective: This is to report the challenges we have been faced in Family medicine practice during Corona virus pandemic and it is related strict lockdowns periods, on both patient's care and education levels.

Methods: A Retrospective review of the family medicine out patient's visits at Jordan University of science and technology medical center before the pandemic, during the Pandemic lockdown and curfew, and after the phased opening and resuming the practice under new safety precautions and measures, results we compared.