University of Chicago opens family medicine department
The University of Chicago will soon have a family and community medicine department.
The university senate voted for the new department in mid-December. "The changing face of health care makes it incumbent on academic institutions to have outreach to the community for primary care delivery," said internist Larry Wood, M.D., dean for medical education at the university's Pritzker School of Medicine. "A department of family medicine becomes the laboratory for investigating population-based sciences in the community and becomes the classroom for teaching the principles of primary care."
The Academy's "target schools" list of medical schools without family medicine departments or divisions now has 10 schools, down from 21 schools in 1989, the year the list was created.
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