Welcome to the Department of Family Medicine

The Department of Family Medicine is committed to quality medical student education and is actively involved in the teaching of all four years in the undergraduate program. The faculty also serve as advisors to the Family Medicine Interest Group and sponsors students to attend various regional and national meetings.

The Family Medicine faculty teach small groups during the Essentials of Clinical Medicine (ECM) course (M1 and M2) and also in the Nutrition course (M1). We mount the workshop on Sex and Substance abuse (using real patients with real problems who are trained through the Patients as Teachers program), and assist the Department of Orthopedics in the musculoskeletal medicine workshops (also utilizing real patients with real problems) during the ECM course. All of the faculty accept Longitudinal Primary Care students (for the M1 to M3 years), and serve as advisors to students interested in a career in Family Medicine. The department mounts a required 6-week clerkship during the third year and offers elective experiences during the fourth year. We also encourage students to have self-designed international experiences during their fourth year as long as there is involvement by Family Physicians. In the past we have had students do electives in Tanzania, Ghana, Australia, South America, Mexico, China and other countries. Closer to home we also have students who worked in rural Illinois or on Indian reservations during their fourth year.

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