About FPM

Divisions

Programs

Dear visitor:

             Welcome to our department and our website. We are proud of our patient care, our teaching, and of being among the most highly funded and academically productive departments in the country.  We are also proud of the ways in which our flexible, rich, and responsive environment allows high faculty and trainee achievement.  In part, we achieve this through extensive relationships with other teaching, research and clinical programs at Emory, as well as with the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), American Cancer Society, local and state health departments, and other local clinical resources.

           Our department has had different names and configurations over the years, but it currently includes five divisions with two residency programs.  These divisions are diverse but complementary, and it is both the breadth and depth of our divisions that give our department some of its greatest strengths.

            The Division of Family Practice includes the Department's Family Practice Program and the Family Practice Residency Training Program. The residency has enrolled ** residents since its inception in July 1995, and received full accreditation at its 2001 site visit. This division now includes ** full time faculty members, ** adjunct faculty, and ** residents.

             The Division of Physicians' Assistant Training offers a 28 month program leading to a Master's Degree, and trains 50 new PAs per year.  This is the number one ranked PA program in the country, and essentially 100% of its graduates pass their national exams. 

             The Division of Prevention runs the Preventive Medicine Residency, and houses the department's research grants, including the:

Clinical and Psychosocial Influences on HIV Therapy Study (a study of clinical, epidemiologic, psychological, and social network influence on adherence to HIV therapy)

• Healthy Doc - Healthy Patient project (an Emory-based 18 medical school intervention and natural history study of medical students in the Class of 2003)

• Urban IDU Networks Study (a study of drug use, needle sharing, and sexual activities among inner city persons at high risk for HIV)

• Women Physicians' Health Study (an Emory-based national study of the personal and professional characteristics of 4,500 women physicians)

             The Division of Primary Care has responsibility for staffing and operating the four Neighborhood Health Centers that are part of the Grady Health System, and includes ** faculty.  These clinics record about 95,000 patient visits per year and provide a wide range of primary care services to indigent populations through Atlanta.

             The Division of Training has as its primary mission the development of educational systems to teach practicing clinicians about HIV/AIDS.  Recently, it has expanded its work as the Southeast AIDS Training and Educational Center to include training for tuberculosis care and management.