Overview

The Department of Family, Community, and Preventive Medicine (FCPM) is deeply rooted in community engagement. Community Health is a key pillar.
 
Family Physicians specialize in community health and the discipline, knowledge, and skill needed to successfully improve it. Our faculty are leaders of programs aimed at community health improvement. Community engagement is a cornerstone to this work. We host a Community Health Advisory Council to help collaborate in the planning, prioritizing and evaluation of this work in the community. 
 
Our faculty lead the Office of Community Engagement and consider this a space to drive community outreach programs and the curriculum for these activities in the College of Medicine. The FCPM department supports these activities with faculty development, grants funding and department assistance. This work is best accomplished by convening aligned partners across communities, academic campuses, primary care residency training programs, and beyond. 
 
The department works to identify and respond to community needs, employing a Community Health Advisory Council to collaborate and offer guidance in this work.  While Family Medicine is a specialty with specific specialty training and certification, Community Medicine can be multi-disciplinary and multispecialty. Success is driven by the ability to collaborate with partners across the college and other specialty departments. MPH/MD program is led by one of our faculty physicians.  

Key Areas of Focus for Our Faculty

The Office of Community Engagement and key programs supported therein to include:

  • Primary Care Workforce Development
  • Rural Health & Rural Health Professions Program (link to these)
  • Primary Care Education Innovations, including the Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship and three-year progression programs
  • Community Partnership Development, including the CACTUS WREN rural and underserved community education support and the AHEC GME initiative
  • Service of Community Certificate of Distinction and Community Health Initiative Phoenix programs 
Service of Community Certificate of Distinction & Community Health Initiative Phoenix

The Service of Community Certificate of Distinction, supported by FCPM faculty, fosters meaningful community service. We are excited to continue supporting the Community Health Initiative Phoenix and the related Certificate of Distinction, further strengthening our commitment to community health.