DFM Vision, Mission, Values, and Goals
Our Vision
Making health equity the reality.
Making health equity the reality.
Our Mission
To advance and model Family Medicine through exceptional clinical care, patient-focused research, health care advocacy, and innovative education.
To advance and model Family Medicine through exceptional clinical care, patient-focused research, health care advocacy, and innovative education.
We Value:
- Providing biopsychosocial care for all patients across the lifespan in any setting
- Improving health outcomes of individuals, families, and communities, especially those negatively affected by structural inequities
- Delivering complex, comprehensive, coordinated, continuous patient care
- Improving access to high-quality care
- Developing a diverse, engaged, and vital work force to provide exceptional care
Our Strategic Goals
Because we believe all people, no matter race, ethnicity, heritage or neighborhood, should have a fair opportunity to achieve their full health potential, we strive to remedy differences in health that are systemic, unjust, and avoidable.
Our overarching strategic goal is to define, develop, and demonstrate value-based care in Family Medicine to improve individual and population-level health equity.
- Build a robust patient-centered and comprehensive accountable care model
- Increase and leverage scholarship and research
- Scale up our impact by strengthening our teaching and communication
- Improve the wellness of our faculty, resident, and staff resulting in increased vitality, resilience, and intention to stay and reduce burnout
- Excel across the education continuum
The Department of Family Medicine is also committed to promoting diversity in its research, education, and clinical activities. You can read our full diversity policy here.