Department of Family Medicine

  "The duty of the physician is to find health - anyone can find disease." - A.T. Still

Family Medicine is devoted to the acquisition and practice of the knowledge attitudes and skills necessary for the promotion of the health of the whole person in mind body and spirit. Attention is given to continuing, comprehensive, personalized care; to detection and management of illness; to prevention of disease and the maintenance of health in a patient centered environment. Osteopathic Family Medicine stresses the relationship of the practitioner to the patient and the concept that Osteopathic Physicians treat people, not diseases.

The Department of Family Medicine is the largest and oldest clinical department of the College of Osteopathic Medicine at the University of New England. Since its formation it has taken a leadership position in the direction of the clinical learning environment of the College of Osteopathic Medicine. Central to that undertaking has been the involvement of community practitioners in teaching, precepting and mentoring students with the understanding that the practice of the science of medicine begins with a firm foundation in the art of medicine and the skills of the generalist.

The on-campus department members are supplemented by a number of practicing physicians and other practitioners. These individuals add their abilities, perspectives and talents from the "real world" of medicine to the theoretical realm of the classroom. The result is a curriculum designed to meld the psychosocial aspects of care, medical humanities, psychomotor skills, differential thinking and clinical skills into a comprehensive whole in preparation for future practice and skill acquisition of the lifelong learner.

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