Center for Education in Family & Community Medicine

The Center for Education in
Family and Community Medicine

Mission

The mission of the Center is: to conduct an interdisciplinary academic program in family and community medicine that focuses on education, research and patient care with emphasis on improving health for diverse and underserved communities.

Left to right: Dr. Sam LeBaron, Dr. Erika Schillinger, Marita Grudzen, Art Johnson, and Arlene Dondoyano.

The Center includes five interrelated programs :

The Predoctoral Curriculum
The O'Connor Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program
The Primary Care Associate Program (PCAP)
The Stanford Geriatric Education Cente (SGEC)
The Stanford Faculty Medicine (SFM) clinical practice

 

Vision

The Center is Stanford's home for education and innovation in family and community medicine where community partners, students and professionals from many disciplines come together to learn from one another, to provide family-based care, to advocate for community health (including underserved groups locally and abroad) and to work as a team to provide comprehensive, humanistic care for the whole person from entry-level preventive counseling to the management of chronic disease and acute illness.

Highlights

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