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UF’s future home for medical and physician assistant students is slated to open in Fall 2015.
Read MoreThe primary mission of the Department of Community Health and Family Medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine is to serve our patients and community, positively shaping the future of healthcare through outstanding teaching, discovery, and innovation in family medicine.
Essential components of this mission are to:
The vision at CHFM is to be a nationally recognized model department of family medicine. CHFM integrates teaching in humanistic medicine, medical ethics, behavioral medicine, and rural and community health into both undergraduate and graduate curricula.
The department has model practice sites in several communities, providing training in urban and rural medicine and health care for underserved areas in the state. These teaching and clinical activities are augmented by a variety of research projects that explore and contribute to the scientific knowledge base in family and community medicine, rural health, primary care, behavioral medicine, and the medical humanities.
We would also like to extend an invitation to visit with our chairman, Peter J. Carek, M.D., M.S .
Please join us in congratulating both Robert Hatch, MD, MPH and Arch Mainous, PhD, for receiving individual awards at the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) Annual Spring Conference […]
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Peter Carek for being selected as the recipient of the 2019 Thomas W. Johnson Award for Career Contributions to Family Medicine Education by the […]
Please join us in congratulating Frank Orlando, MD, Elisa Lupi, MD, and Ku-Lang Chang, MD, for being awarded first place on their poster “Using a Daily Self-Regulation Practice with Biofeedback […]
