Highlights
FACULTY: 553 Two-thirds community-based; one-third DHMC campus-based.
EDUCATION
MEDICAL STUDENTS: (Required Courses)
- On Doctoring: A Longitudinal Clinical Experience (LCE) Years I&II (4 hours per week throughout)
- Epidemiology/Biostatistics Year I - 36 hours
- Family Practice Clerkship Year III - 8 weeks
- Health, Society and the Physician Year IV - 5 weeks (60% time)
RESIDENTS:
- Maine-Dartmouth Family Practice Residency -Augusta/Waterville (30 residents)
- New Hampshire-Dartmouth Family Practice Residencies (24 residents)
- DHMC Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency (40 residents anticipated in steady state)
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT:
- Dartmouth Primary Care Cooperative Project (Dartmouth COOP): An effective and productive alliance for coordinated primary care research/teaching throughout Northern New England
- Regional Teaching Workshops (six to eight per year)
MASTERS, DOCTORAL, POST DOCTORAL AND JOINT DEGREE PROGRAMS:
- Evaluative Clinical Sciences - 90+ masters students per year (34% undergraduate degree received or other health clinicians; 33% physicians; 33% health managers, researchers and planners); 19 students studying for the Ph.D and/or combined MD/PhD; 20 students in the following programs: VA-CECS Quality Scholars, VA Outcomes Research Fellowship, NRSA Training Program, and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency Program
- Enrolled for 2005 - 2006: 62 MPH students (36 are new enrollees); 24 MS students (12 are new enrollees); 19 PhD students (7 are new enrollees); 1 NRSA Post-doc
- Graduated June 2005: 29 MPH Students; 20 MS students; 1 PhD student
- Eight students enrolled in the joint MD/MBA program, including our first woman; two students scheduled to graduate 2006
- Graduated June 2005: one MD/MBA student
RESEARCH
2004 - 2005 Annual Sponsored Activities Budget $31.8 Million (Direct Costs only). Includes awards either administered by C&FM or for which PI's primary appointment is in C&FM.
- Educational
- Evaluative Clinical Sciences
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Primary Care Research
- Mental Health Services Research
- Interactive Media Lab
PATIENT CARE
- Primary care provided under Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinic: Family Medicine, Geriatrics, Women's Health, Sports Medicine
- Primary care provided by community-based faculty throughout Northern New England.
SELECTED RECOGNITIONS
- Family Medicine Clerkship - ranked by students as one of the best Dartmouth Medical School required clerkship experiences for over ten years.
- DMS class of 2005 matched 10 students in Family Practice - highest concentration in any specialty.
- As a group, DMS students' scores are higher in the field of Preventive Medicine (National Boards, Part II) than in any other field.
- Largest sponsored research budget of any such department in the nation.
- Publication of Dartmouth Atlas by the Center for Evaluative Clinical Services.
- Seven department faculty (full and part-time) have been elected to membership in the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine (Batalden, Daulaire, Dietrich, Jemison, Koop, Wennberg, Zubkoff)
- Department cited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education in 1998 as "an outstanding example of excellence in academic pursuits and community-based teaching, made all the more prominent by its wide ranging nationally recognized research programs...a resource for faculty from other sectors of the Medical School."