Honduras Prolotherapy Trip Celebrates 50 Years
An annual service-learning experience that has close ties to the University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (DFMCH) celebrates its 50th [...]
Finding a New Path: Dr. Alison Miller Finds Joy in Helping Patients Overcome Addiction
Alison Miller, DO, a clinical assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (DFMCH), went into medicine wanting [...]
DFMCH Honors Service at McGovern-Tracy and Student Scholars Awards Ceremony
Themes of advocacy, empowerment and engagement were woven through the University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine and Community Health’s (DFMCH) 18th annual McGovern-Tracy [...]
Reducing the Impact of Addiction
Outreach, education, advocacy and research supports recovery The Midwest has been particularly challenged by the national opioid crisis. Between 2016 and 2017, opioid overdoses [...]
An Education Mission, A Rural Life
A Q&A with Dr. Lauren Walsh, Lakeland RTT’s newest faculty member Dr. Lauren Walsh combines rural medicine, women’s health with obstetrics and resident [...]
DFMCH Has Strong Showing at STFM 2019
With 28 faculty and residents in attendance, the University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (DFMCH) had an outstanding showing at [...]
WREN Participates in PCORI-Supported Advance Care Planning Study
The Wisconsin Research and Education Network (WREN), a statewide primary care practice-based research network (PBRN) housed at the University of Wisconsin Department of Family [...]
Medical Students Support People in Recovery Through Community Health Engagement Project
Third-year medical student Bryce Tyler de Venecia rotated with Wisconsin Voices for Recovery and Stop Heroin Now, two organizations that collaborate with the DFMCH, [...]
Get to Know Dr. Nicole Bonk: A Family Physician Focused on Inpatient Care
As the medical director of the inpatient family medicine teaching service at University Hospital and the hospitalist medical director at UW Health at [...]
Match Day 2019: 18.9 Percent of UWSMPH Students Match into Family Medicine; DFMCH Welcomes 55 New Residents Statewide
The University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (DFMCH) is proud that 35 fourth-year UW School of Medicine and Public Health [...]