Dr. Jennifer Raley was highlighted as the American Academy of Family Physician's July Family Doc Focus for her leadership and commitment to the UTMB Health Family Medicine Interest Group

The UTMB Health Family Medicine Medicine Interest Group (FMIG) secured a 6th year-in-a-row AAFP Program of Excellence Award and were acknowledged at the AAFP National Conference in Kansas City.

Saturday, May 18th 2024 marked the 7th collaboration among regional Family Medicine Residency Programs where residents presented their scholarly works in the form of Case Reports, Evidence-Based Reviews, Quality Improvement Projects or Original Research. The programs in attendance were Methodist, Memorial Hermann, Baylor, UT Health - Houston and UTMB Health

Thursday, April 18, 2024 was the UTMB Health Residency Programs annual retreat held at the UTMB Health Health Education Center (HEC). Every year at the retreat the new Chief Residents are announced. Congratulations to Sean Bray, MD, MS and Dylan E. Bridwell, DO, MS on their upcoming new roles.

The 2024 Match is complete and the UTMB Health Department of Family Medicine is pleased to welcome our incoming resident Class of 2027.

On Thursday, February 29th, 2024 the UTMB Health Department of Family Medicine hosted the 3rd Annual Women's Health Workshop, a collaboration between the Award Winning Family Medicine Interest Group (FMIG) and the Obstetrics Gynecology Student Society (OGSS).

We are very thrilled to announce that on March 19, 2024, by majority vote, the FY2024 John P. McGovern Posthumous Award in Oslerian Medicine will be bestowed to Dr. Jamal Islam during the Osler Club meeting.

UTMB Health professor, Kendall M. Campbell, MD appointed to The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Committee on Meaningful Outcome Measures in Adult Hearing Health Care.

The UTMB Health Family Medicine Medicine Interest Group (FMIG) secured a 5th year-in-a-row AAFP Program of Excellence Award and were acknowledged at the AAFP National Conference in Kansas City on July 27-29, 2023.

The UTMB Health Family Medicine Residency Program was in attendance at the 2023 American Academy of Family Physicians National Conference in Kansas City for the first time since 2019 as a result of COVID-19.

Residents and Faculty head to our State Capital to participate in the #TAFP Physician of the Day experience.

The 2023 Match is complete and the UTMB Health Department of Family Medicine is pleased to welcome our incoming resident Class of 2026.

On Thursday, February 16th, 2023 the UTMB Health Department of Family Medicine hosted the 2nd Annual Women's Health Workshop, a collaboration between the Family Medicine Interest Group (FMIG) and the Obstetrics Gynecology Student Society (OGSS).

Dr. Shannon Guillot-Wright is Vice Chair of Research and Health Policy in the Department of Family Medicine, and Health Policy Research Director at the Center for Violence Prevention was recently awarded a $660,000 grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control funding a 5yr research project to address health disparities for commercial fishermen and to bring medical professionals to the fishing docks to provide primary care services.

Thanks to UTMB Health Family Medicine Research Federal Work Study Student, Leonard Wang, 50 flu/winter kits for Vietnamese fishermen will be distributed at the Docside Clinic this week and in the weeks to come.

Members of the UTMB Health Latino Medical Student Association and the Family Medicine Interest Group were recently on hand, at La Michoacán on Broadway, to provide free flu immunizations to the Galveston community.

On Friday the 21st of October, 2022, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston will honor 38 Faculty Living Legends in Celebration of the 130th Anniversary of educating the finest health care professionals. Our Living Legend is Dr. Barbara Thompson

The UTMB Student National Medical Association (SNMA) and The Department of Family Medicine at UTMB host the first annual Family Medicine Day. Learn about the practice of family medicine, the vast expanse of the practice and its rewarding front line qualities.