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OHSU FAMILY MEDICINE
From the Chairman
 Welcome to the Department of Family Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University. Now in our 36th year, our Department sponsors a full range of clinical and academic programs in the discipline of family medicine at OHSU, the state's only academic health center. Our website includes detailed information about these programs. The Family Medicine faculty includes over 50 primary faculty members who are located in Portland and in our affiliated residency program in Klamath Falls, Oregon. In addition, we have over three hundred and fifty volunteer faculty located in communities throughout our state. In 2006, U.S. News & World Report ranks our Department among the nation's five best and we're very proud of the programs that have led to this national reputation.
In the area of clinical care, the Department currently sponsors four family health centers in the Portland Metro area. This clinic network provides patient care to approximately 100,000 outpatient visits per year and over 2100 hospital admissions to our four family medicine hospital services at OHSU Hospital. We practice a comprehensive scope of clinical family medicine including maternity care and inpatient care for both adults and children. Our faculty has admitting privileges to the intensive care unit, labor and delivery, and three family medicine faculty members have C-section privileges at our University Hospital.
The Department has sponsored a family medicine residency based at University Hospital in Portland for 35 years. This program now has ten positions in each of the three years of training and attracts a large and diverse pool of applicants from across the United States. Two major foci of training for the residency are rural health and medical leadership. The residency requires two months of training in a frontier rural community in eastern Oregon for all of its residents. The Department also sponsors a combined Family Medicine/Preventive Medicine Residency in partnership with the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at OHSU. There are two positions in each of the four years of this program, which leads to eligibility for board certification in both, family medicine and preventive medicine as well as the course work necessary for the Master of Public Health degree. The Department sponsors a six resident per year residency in Klamath Falls, Oregon, with a principle focus on producing rural family physicians. We are also affiliated with the Providence Family Medicine Residency located in Portland at Providence Milwaukie Hospital.
In the area of post residency training, the Department sponsors a two-year family medicine research fellowship with one position each year. We also have post residency fellowships in faculty development, clinical leadership, and integrative medicine for one fellow each year.
The Family Medicine Department is directly involved with nearly twenty percent of the medical school curriculum at OHSU. This includes required curriculum time in all four years of the medical school, beginning with a Summer Observership in the summer before the first year. We are actively involved in a longitudinal Principles of Clinical Medicine course that includes clinical experience for students throughout the preclinical years of training. In the third year of the medical school curriculum, OHSU has a five-week family medicine clerkship and a separate five-week rural community health clerkship in which students complete training in small towns in rural communities throughout our state. In the fourth year we sponsor a subinternship program as well as visiting medical student rotations for students from other universities. The Department sponsors a Family Medicine Student Interest Group, which includes approximately half of the 120 medical students in each class. The Student Interest Group has won national awards from the American Academy of Family Physicians and has proven to be an important venue for stimulating student interest in careers in family medicine. Over the past three years, fifteen percent of our graduating students have entered family medicine residencies.
In the area of research and scholarship, our faculty have been very involved in writing peer reviewed papers and textbooks. Examples of faculty scholarly interests include health policy, medical decision making, evidence-based medicine, spirituality in medicine, medical ethics, and medical education. Our website includes a complete faculty bibliography for further information about our academic interests, publications, and presentations. We also work with the Oregon Rural Practice-Based Research Network (ORPRN), which conducts research relevant to Rural Health and Primary Care in communities all around Oregon.
Finally, Oregon Health & Science University is the state's only academic health center. As a result, our University views the entire state of Oregon as its campus and our departmental programs, including outreach and distance education programs, affect every community in our state. I hope you will take time to explore our website for further information about the programs that we sponsor and the faculty and staff who make these programs work. Please feel free to contact us if we can provide further information about family medicine in Oregon.
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