GENERAL INFORMATION

Family Medicine physicians are specialists with a broad training in areas of medicine like pediatrics, internal medicine, psychiatry, surgery, obstetrics/gynecology and community medicine. As a result, these physician can effectively treat 85 to 90 percent of all illnesses.

The Educational goal of the Department of Family &Community Medicine is to prepare medical students, residents, and physicians to provide high-quality, personalized, comprehensive health care with an emphasis on the family and integration of care. Family medicine embraces the biopsychosocial model that health results from well-being in all areas of a person's life: the biological, psychological, spiritual, and social.

The specialty of family medicine is centered on lasting, caring relationships with patients and their families. Family physicians integrate biological, clinical and behavioral sciences to provide continuing and comprehensive care. The scope of practice encompasses all ages, sexes, each organ system and every disease.

Your family physician works with you to maintain your health through all phases of your life. Through youth, they are there for well child checks, immunizations, and camp and sports physicals. In adulthood, they provide preventative health services, including screening for diabetes, cholesterol and cancer.

Our Programs are taught by a core of full-time faculty members at 15 key clinical teaching sites.

Many community based physicians serve as part-time faculty in their practices throughout Texas .