Mission, Vision, & Values

Our Mission

The Department of Family & Community Medicine at Saint Louis University will measurably improve community health outcomes by:

• Improving access to primary care, particularly family physician services, and other primary care important health professions services by:
  • increasing the number of underrepresented minorities who become health professionals,
  • encouraging more health profession students to go into primary care and primary care important disciplines, particularly family practice,
  • working collaboratively with other community-based organizations to stimulate progress toward the goal of universal access to health care, while decreasing health disparities.
• Improving the quality of primary care and preventive services delivered by health professionals in St. Louis by teaching them to adopt:
  • a biopsychosocial approach to health care,
  • cost-effective, evidence-based practice patterns,
  • patient-centered and culturally competent communication skills
  • health maintenance/preventive care into their practices, and
  • interdisciplinary team-based care.
• Implementing population-based health and research projects that address specific community health outcomes, particularly those that reduce health disparities in St. Louis.
• Providing clinical and community services that meet community health needs.

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