Welcome to the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine!
We are proud of our patient care, teaching, primary care research, and of being among the
most highly funded and academically productive departments
in the country. We are also proud of the ways in which
our flexible, rich, and responsive environment allows high
faculty and trainee achievement. In part, we achieve
this through extensive relationships with other teaching,
research and clinical programs at Emory, as well as with
the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), American Cancer Society, local and state health departments,
and other local clinical resources.
Our department has had different names and configurations
over the years, but it currently includes five divisions
with two residency training programs, and physician assistant training program. These divisions are diverse
but complementary, and it is both the breadth and depth
of our divisions that give our department some of its greatest
strengths.
The Division of Family Medicine includes the Department's
Family Practice Program and the Family Practice Residency
Training Program. The residency program has trained a group of 9 residents each year
since its inception in July 1995, and received full accreditation
at its last site visit. This division now includes 10 full
time faculty members, many adjunct faculty, and 27 residents.
The
Division of the Physician Assistant Program offers
a 28 month entry level program leading to a Master's Degree, and matriculates
50 new PAs per year. This PA Program is ranked third among graduate level
PA programs in the country by US News & World Report, and has a consistent and exceptional pass rate on the PA national
certifying exam. The program also has a dual degree option (PA/MPH) for students accepted to both the Rollins
School of Public Health and the PA Program. This option consists of an initial one year enrollment at the
School of Public Health, then 7 consecutive semesters in the PA Program.
The Division of Preventive Medicine offers the Preventive
Medicine Residency, and houses the department's research
grants, including the:
Clinical
and Psychosocial Influences on HIV Therapy Study (a study
of clinical, epidemiologic, psychological, and social network
influence on adherence to HIV therapy);
-
Healthy Doc - Healthy Patient
project (an Emory-based 18 medical school intervention
and natural history study of medical students in the
Class of 2003)
-
Urban IDU Networks Study
(a study of drug use, needle sharing, and sexual activities
among inner city persons at high risk for HIV)
-
Women Physicians' Health
Study (an Emory-based national study of the personal
and professional characteristics of 4,500 women physicians)
The Division of Community Health has responsibility for
staffing and operating four Neighborhood Health Centers
that are part of the Grady Health System, and includes more than 30
faculty. These clinics record about 95,000 patient
visits per year and provide a wide range of primary care
services to indigent populations through Atlanta.
The Division of AIDS Training has as its primary mission
the development of educational systems to teach practicing
clinicians about HIV/AIDS. Recently, it has expanded
its work as the Southeast AIDS Training and Educational
Center to include training for tuberculosis care and management.
Again,
welcome to the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine website. Please take a few
moments to browse our site and let us know how we can be useful to you.
Sincerely,
Lawrence J Lutz MD/MSPH
Professor & Chair
SOM: Family & Preventive
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