Established in 1965, the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health was the first academic family medicine department in the United States. Our department was started by Lynn P. Carmichael, M.D., considered one of the founders of the discipline of family medicine in the United States. One year later, the department set another precedent when it established the first Family Practice Training Program at Jackson Memorial Hospital.
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Bringing Research to the Community: The Virtues of Decentralized Clinical Trials
The Miller School of Medicine has five funded studies that bring all or part of the research to people in the community.