Family Medicine provides evidence-oriented clinical care across the family spectrum, community engagement, clinically relevant research and scholarship, and outstanding education for medical students, residents, and providers across Vermont.
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Academic and Clinical Excellence: Discovering Together - Caring, Educating, Innovating and Thriving

Our mission is to engage our patients and families in equitable and person-centered care, provide high quality educational programs for all learners, advance science and practice in Family Medicine and promote the physical, mental and spiritual well-being for all in an inclusive environment.

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A Message from our Chair, Shalina Nair, M.D., MBA, FAAFP

We are dedicated to compassionate care, education, and innovative research to enhance community health. Since our inception in the 1970s, we've grown to 25 clinical sites and over 230 providers, including 64 faculty members.

Full Chair's Message
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Education

Our Family Medicine faculty provide exceptional and varied clinical and academic experiences for learners in the hospital, academic practices, community health centers and rural practices. They lead and teach in all four years of the medical school and in our residencies and fellowship.
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Research

Our mission is to advance the science of social connection, healthcare communication and application of socially just conversation analytics in healthcare redesign. We leverage our interdisciplinarity, our joy of collaborative discovery and commitment to fostering a just and compassionate world.
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Patient Care

Our department includes the divisions of Primary Care Medical Homes, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Dental Medicine, and Urgent Care. Family Medicine primary care includes comprehensive, patient-centered care across the lifespan, procedural, reproductive, and obstetric care.