Outreach

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, primary care, and community health outreach.

Organic Health Response: Supporting an Ecosystem of Diverse Community Health Initiatives on Mfangano Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya

Second-year North Memorial family medicine resident Charles (Chas) Salmen, MD, MPhil, discusses his work with Organic Health Response, a non-profit organization. 

Hippocrates Cafe Performs on the National Stage
A new version of "The Essence of Family Medicine," a live show exploring the joys and challenges of family medicine through story and song, is performed on the national stage.

UCare: A Growing Force in Minnesota Health Care 
UCare, a health plan originally created as a means to improve access to care for the underserved and increase the number of patients seen in UMN family medicine residency clinics, sees explosive growth.

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.

The Ladder: Lifting the Next Generation of Health Care Leaders
A unique mentorship program/club for kids who are interested in health careers has launched in North Minneapolis.

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.