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Family Medicine Department in NIH Funding Nationwide (2023)

 Residency Programs

We have eight family medicine residency programs—five in the Twin Cities and three in Greater Minnesota.
We train family physicians to provide comprehensive, personalized care for the whole family in any setting: urban, rural, global. Each program has its own curricular strengths, unique feel, and sense of community.

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Education & Training

Our top-ranked educational programs include eight distinct residency programs and five fellowships, as well as many courses and opportunities for medical students and community physicians.

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Patient Care

Our approach to care is collaborative and team-based, within multiple clinics and hospitals across the state of Minnesota. We are dedicated to comprehensive, personalized care for the whole person, the whole family, and the whole community.

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Research

One of the top-funded family medicine departments in the country by the NIH, we focus on collaborative and cutting-edge research across multiple health-related areas, including diabetes, obesity, smoking cessation, health inequities and health equity, nutrition, integrated care, behavioral health, opioids, community-based participatory research, and sexual health.

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Department Head, James Pacala, MD, MS

The Department of Family Medicine and Community Health is part of the University of Minnesota Medical School. The department was created more than 50 years ago in response to a legislative mandate to train primary care physicians.

 

Family Medicine News

Ann Philbrick, PharmD, FCCP, BCACP, is an associate professor at the College of Pharmacy and the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota. She is on the faculty of Woodwinds Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program and maintains her pharmacy practice at M Health Fairview Clinic - Bethesda. She is a 2006 graduate of the University of Nebraska Medical Center and completed a combined PGY1 and PGY2 ambulatory care residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in 2008.

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Assistant Professor Katie Freeman, MD, practices full-spectrum family medicine including obstetrics at Bethesda Family Medicine Clinic in St. Paul as part of the Woodwinds Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Freeman spoke with us about a research project exploring the impact of different interpreter modalities (virtual versus in-person interpreting) on patients.

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Jason Wall, MD, is a family medicine doctor and faculty member in the Duluth Family Medicine Residency Program. He received his medical degree from Chicago Medical School/Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine Science and has been in practice for more than 20 years.

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Minnesota Northstar Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program

Led by PI Jim Pacala, MD, MS, the Minnesota Northstar Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (MN GWEP) has a mission to improve the healthcare and health of older adults across the state of Minnesota.