About Us
Family and Community is the third largest department within Baylor College of Medicine. Our faculty and staff are our greatest resource and they are the people who have created our nationally recognized programs in education, international health, research, community health, and patient care.
Our mission is to enhance the health of the population and advance the discipline of primary care by providing excellent and innovative teaching of primary health care to learners; by delivering high quality, family- and community-oriented primary health care; and by discovering new knowledge which will contribute to the improvement of processes and outcomes of the care which we render.
Our core values are:
- Integrity, fairness, justice, kindness, trust
- Open communication
- Shared accountability to each other
Our operating principles are:
- Integrity, fairness, justice, kindness, trust
- Advocacy for our patients and involvement in the communities in which they live
- Service to underserved communities and vulnerable populations, locally and globally
- Respect for diversity in our patients and ourselves
- A superior level of professionalism
- Open communication.
- Free expression of differences of opinion in service of common goals.
- Empowerment of each member to achieve his/her maximum potential.
- Creativity and innovation to support continuous improvement in our teaching, clinical care and research.
- Team work, collegiality and mentoring of one another.
- Shared accountability to each other.
- Excellence in teaching our students, residents, fellows, staff and each other.
- Excellent, compassionate, respectful and holistic family-oriented care to all of our patients.
- Professional dedication and hard work, in balance with dedication to personal growth.
- Dedicated stewardship of institutional and societal resources.
We invite you to explore our web site and learn more about our programs and to consider partnering with us in our education, research or patient care endeavors, such as:
Education
- Medical student teaching
- Resident training
- International health lectures, electives and fellowships
Research
- Decision support systems for low literacy patients
- Chronic disease control
- Cancer screening education and outreach
Patient care
- Community Health Centers
- School-based Clinics
- Homeless Care
- Shoulder-To-Shoulder Clinic in Santa Ana, Intibuca, Honduras
- Baylor Family Medicine Clinics