Behavioral Science Faculty

Behavioral Science Faculty The UCSF Family and Community Medicine residency program has been training physicians to practice systems-oriented medicine with a focus on urban underserved populations for over 45 years. At its inception, the field of family medicine was conceived as a response to the extreme reductionism that dominated medical culture at the time. Medical science has a tendency to conceptually divide people into their constituent parts and divide them from their contexts, families, and communities. Family medicine was designed as a field to reconstitute the patient, and to explicitly consider the whole person, inclusive of their community, their history, their family, and other elements of context. In other words, the field is explicitly systems oriented.