University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
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Family and Community Medicine faculty, staff and resident trainees play crucial roles in the health of NM’s diverse and medically underserved populations. The Department employs a learner-centered, problem-based approach to education and a collaborative “Health Commons” model of service. The Department strives to recruit and retain health professions graduates to areas of need, and help reshape institutional priorities and programs to meet community-prioritized needs.
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New Mexico is a beautiful, geographically large (5th largest) and sparsely populated (6th lowest) state. NM is a “minority majority” state with 42% of its population Hispanic, 10% Native American, and 2% African American. Thirty one of NM’s 33 counties are federally designated Health Professions Shortage Areas or Medically Underserved Areas.
National and International Recognition:
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The Department’s performance in carrying out its missions receives national and international recognition for innovation in education and responsiveness to individual and community need through its service / learning models. In 2005, U.S. News and World Report ranks the UNM School of Medicine #2 in rural medicine and #5 in Family Medicine. Arthur Kaufman, MD, Professor & Chairman, serves as the Secretary General of The Network: Towards Unity for Health, a non-government organization in official relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO). The UNM School of Medicine is a designated WHO collaborating center.
Department of Family & Community Medicine
Mailing address: MSC 09 5040
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Administrative Offices:
Family Practice Center 3rd Floor
2400 Tucker Ave. NE [map]
Albuquerque, New Mexico
(505) 272-2165
Mailing address: MSC 09 5040
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
(505) 272-2165
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