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Services

The Department of Family and Preventive Medicine’s patient care services include comprehensive, acute, urgent, preventive and chronic condition care for patients of all ages and their families. The Emory Family Medicine Clinic in Dunwoody is the primary community-based clinic site for faculty and family medicine resident practice. Our Family Medicine residents are graduates of accredited medical schools, who provide care in partnership with Emory Family Medicine faculty. Having a large number of faculty and resident providers improve timely access for our patients at the clinic or by phone after-hours for urgent problems. The Dunwoody Clinic practice faculty offer inpatient services, including labor and delivery at the Emory University Hospital Midtown.

Our goal as providers is to partner with you to keep you well or improve your health status. Having a regular team of primary care health professionals allows our patients and physician-led healthcare teams to get to know each other well, which has been shown to improve health outcomes and patient satisfaction, and reduces unnecessary costs of repeated tests, duplicate medications, and ER visits. Coordinating your care helps make sure you get the right care when you need it, including referrals to our Emory Healthcare Network of specialists or inpatient care at an Emory hospital when necessary. Emory’s academic practice setting offers the support of many physician partners who are experts in their specialty, as well as an effective channel of communication between these specialists and our Family Physicians. At Emory Family Medicine, we’re dedicated to providing the very best high quality, high-value patient care.

Some of the unique services at our clinic include behavioral medicine and The Lifestyle Clinic.

Emory at Dunwoody Family Medicine

Emory Lifestyle Medicine Clinic and Education

The Lifestyle Clinic at Emory University has been helping patients learn how to break the chains of unhealthy lifestyle behaviors since December 2013. Our program was recently selected to receive the American College of Preventive Medicine Diabetes Prevention Program Demonstration Project grant award, which allows us to implement the Diabetes Prevention Program at our lifestyle clinic. This project is directly in line with the lifestyle medicine core competency of Use of Office and Community Support.

The Lifestyle Clinic provides hands-on lifestyle medicine exposure for residents, faculty, medical students, and physician assistant students. Through applied learning, learners actively engage with patients during shared medical appointments, practice motivational interviewing, and gain an appreciation for the impact lifestyle medicine has in treating or preventing chronic diseases within a primary care setting.

Behavioral Medicine Program

Behavioral medicine resident training takes place in a variety of settings and through diverse activities including:

Behavioral Medicine Rotation
Psychiatry Rotation
Didactic Presentations
Videotaping Patient Encounters
Balint Group

What do Family Medicine Providers do?

Trained in all areas of medicine, Family Medicine physicians diagnose and treat the full range of problems people typically bring to their doctors.

Family physicians are experts in prevention, treating most acute illnesses, and helping people effectively manage chronic medical problems. They are at the center of your care, coordinating and guiding you through what can be a very confusing and fragmented health care system. Regular visits to a family physician have even been shown to lower the overall costs of health care and improve the health of the people they serve when compared to similar groups who only receive care from subspecialists.

Family physicians are also the only medical specialists who practice everywhere that Americans live and in a relatively equal proportion. They are the backbone of the community health system and are trained to take care of most health care needs, regardless of age or gender.

Your family physician is trained to provide comprehensive care through all the stages of your life. They take care of the physical, mental, and emotional health of both their patients and their patients’ families, and they know your family’s health history and how it can affect you.

Patient-Centered Medical Home Model of Healthcare

Emory Family Medicine passionately believes in the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model of care. The Emory Family Medicine Clinic at Dunwoody has been a Level-3 Patient-Centered Medical Home since 2013.

Everyone should have a regular primary care provider who knows their healthcare issues, respects their personal values, empowers them to understand and take control of their own health, and coordinates and facilitates specialty care as needed. The PCMH model of health care delivery is driven by what patients and their families value most.

At a patient-centered medical home, you the patient are the focus of the team, and you will get the most from our services when you become an active partner in staying healthy. Our providers and counselors want to help you learn how to best manage your chronic health problems between visits. Would you like to learn more about how the delivery of health care is changing and improving?

Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH)

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