Research
The Department of Family Medicine and Community Health has an active research area, working to enhance partnerships with other academic departments and institutions and speed the uptake of innovations into practice.
Research Areas
Our research is organized into the following areas:
- Health disparities. Developing solutions to eliminate health inequities and remove barriers to care.
- Healthcare delivery. Evaluating delivery models for care, service, and education in U of M family medicine residencies and other primary care settings.
- Population health. Improving clinical and community population health (e.g., women's health, sports medicine, healthy eating across the lifespan).
We currently rank third in the nation among National Institutes of Health-funded family medicine departments. (Source: Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research)
Part of the Family Physicians Inquiries Network
The department is a member of the Family Physicians Inquiries Network (FPIN), a grassroots effort to make evidence-based family medicine and clinical scholarship more accessible to family physicians in clinical practice.