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Faculty Members
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Residency Programs
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Fellowship Programs
#1
Family Medicine Department in NIH Funding Nationwide (2023)

 Residency Programs

We have 10 family medicine residency programs—five in the Twin Cities and five 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.

*This program is pending approval by the ACGME.

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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

John Wood, MD, is a retired faculty member of the University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine and Community Health’s Duluth Family Medicine Residency Program. In the summer of 2024, he completed a 4,000-mile cross-country bike ride with his son Peter, traveling from Oregon to New York. The journey offered moments of challenge, connection, and unexpected generosity from strangers along the way. In this interview, Dr. Woods reflects on the lessons learned through the ride, the deepening of his relationship with Peter, and what the experience taught him about perseverance, presence, and trust.

Methodist Hospital Family Medicine Residency faculty Christine Morley, MD, answers questions about family medicine: how she chose the specialty, her key messages for trainees, what brings her joy, and more.

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Dr. Sonya Brady discusses how she came to be involved in research and shares some of her recent research projects concerning women's bladder health.

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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.