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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 the UF Health Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center for receiving the 2018 Robert A. Warriner III Center of Excellence award for the second consecutive year! […]
Please join us in congratulating the selected faculty members for receiving the Community Heath and Family Medicine Department’s Golden Gator Teaching Award in honor of their overall excellence in their […]
Please join us in congratulating the College of Medicine professors for receiving the Exemplary Teacher Award based on outstanding performance in teaching of medical students, residents and fellows, graduate students, […]
