The Department of Family Medicine seeks to prepare graduates of three-year residency programs and/or Diplomates of the American Academy of Family Medicine for academic family medicine. Fellows are supported in the design of programs individualized to their own personal needs, goals, and aspirations.
This program flexibility allows for a variety of programmatic emphases relative to family medicine. While preparing for the responsibilities of academic medicine, fellows have the opportunity to gain advanced training in areas of a specific interest; the choice may be to pursue graduate studies, as outlined below.
The Department of Family Medicine offers the Master of Science in Medical Science in collaboration with other clinical departments in the College of Medicine. The following table summarizes course requirements of the overall College-coordinated program:
Requirements |
Thesis Option |
Non-Thesis Option |
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Core Requirements |
Research Design/Qualitative Methods (A sequence of at least 12 credit hours, e.g., Prev Med 764,765,766,786; or Stat 528,529,530, Prev Med 786; or approved equivalents) |
Research Design/Qualitative Methods (A sequence of at least 12 credit hours, e.g., Prev Med 764,765,766,786; or Stat 528,529,530, Prev Med 786; or approved equivalents) |
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Graduate Program Requirements and Electives |
Per each clinical graduate program’s requirements and each student’s interests (24 graduate credit hours with no more than 15 taken on as S/U * |
Per each clinical graduate program’s requirements and each student’s interests (26 graduate credit hours with no more than 15 taken on as S/U * |
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Areas of Concentration |
9 graduate credit hours of thesis work e.g., G998 or G999 |
12 graduate credit hours of concentrated course work |
*
Departmental courses include:To assure the opportunity for practical skills application, fellows pursue projects or areas of research and complete them by the end of the program. Additionally, fellows are involved in teaching at all levels of medical training; this includes teaching medical students, residents, and other health professionals. Finally, whether the fellows choose to study in a clinical area or in an academic area at least one day a week is devoted to patient care in a family practice center.