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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 .
Congratulations to Olgert Bardhi for receiving the 2019 Carey R. Barber, M.D. Scholarship for Depression Awareness and Suicide Prevention. Bardhi is a 2nd year medical student at the University of […]
Congratulations to Jay Clugston, MD, MS, CAQSM for his continued efforts in concussion research. Dr. Clugston, who is a Florida Gator’s Team Physician, recently co-authored new guidelines that were published […]
Congratulations to our Academic Assistant I, Lea Crowley for being the first-ever recipient of the UF & UF Health Wellness Warrior Award! Lea has been […]
