Patient Care

From Clinic to Community: Health Care on the Front Lines is a blog managed and maintained by the University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. The following posts relate to family medicine and primary care patient care.


Minnesota Monthly Presents "Best Doctors" 2016
University of Minnesota Family Medicine and Community Health faculty named "Best Doctors" in the specialties of addiction medicine, family medicine, geriatric medicine, and sports medicine.

Mpls.St.Paul Magazine 2016 Top Doctors
University of Minnesota Family Medicine and Community Health faculty named "Top Doctors" in the specialties of family medicine, geriatrics, and sports medicine. 

MN Monthly Presents "Best Doctors" 2015
University of Minnesota Family Medicine and Community Health faculty named "Best Doctors" in the specialties of family medicine, geriatric medicine, and sports medicine.

Minnesota Monthly Names "Best Doctors 2014"
University of Minnesota Family Medicine and Community Health faculty named "Best Doctors" in the specialties of family medicine, geriatric medicine, and sports medicine.

Mpls.St.Paul Magazine Names "Top Doctors"
University of Minnesota Family Medicine and Community Health faculty named "Top Doctors" in the specialties of family medicine, geriatrics, and sports medicine. 

Healthy Cooking for Healthy Communities
An interdisciplinary team of family physicians and local chefs sponsor a series of free classes about healthy cooking, nutrition, and wellness designed to address the obesity epidemic at a local level.  

Medical Students Experience Urban Medicine
Urban ambulatory community medicine elective at the University of Minnesota encourages medical students to consider a career in family medicine.  

How to Avoid Complacency in Primary Care 
Family medicine has an opportunity to lead the primary care movement—University of Minnesota Family Medicine and Community Health department head Macaran Baird, MD, MS, explains how.  

Interview with Jon Hallberg, MD: Macro-medicine with MPR 
University of Minnesota Family Medicine and Community Health faculty Jon Hallberg, MD, celebrates his tenth anniversary as the regular medical analyst with Minnesota Public Radio's "All Things Considered."  

UMN/MDH to Study Integration of Primary Care and Public Health
University of Minnesota and Minnesota Department of Health collaborate to study the integration of primary care delivery and public health services.   

This Is Primary Care
Inspired by a campaign that identified the work of public health, University of Minnesota Family Medicine and Community Health faculty Shailey Prasad MD, MPH, hopes the work of primary care will one day be identifiable in our communities, outside clinic walls.  

Best Minnesota Doctors for Women 2014
A number of University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine and Community Health faculty were named by Minnesota Monthly to their annual "Best Doctors for Women" list.