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Contact Information:

Sanford School of Medicine
Family Medicine
1400 West 22nd Street
Sioux Falls, SD 57105
phone: 605-357-1500
fax: 605-357-1510

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Last Modified: 09/22/08

Department of Family Medicine physician, Dr. Susan Anderson, consulting with a medical student.

Family Medicine Mission

The mission of the Department of Family Medicine and our faculty at the Sanford
School of Medicine of The University of South Dakota is to provide high quality education in Family Medicine, further the scholarship of our discipline, serve the patients of our community, advance the mission of our School of Medicine, and support our University.

Educational Goals

1. To introduce medical students to the discipline and specialty of Family Medicine and to family physicians. 

2. To provide quality, affiliated Family Medicine Residency Programs, which prepare graduates for practice in both rural and urban settings.

3.  To provide excellent teachers, mentors, role models, and advisors for our students and residents.

4. To promote family medicine as a career choice for students and provide support and appropriate counseling in this regard.

5. To demonstrate the importance of continuing, comprehensive, and coordinated patient care.

6. To emphasize the biopsychosocial model of healthcare.

7. To provide students with personal experience in the practice of rural medicine.

8. To teach key concepts in preventive medicine, emergency medicine, geriatrics, nutrition, professionalism, and ethics. 


H. Bruce Vogt, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Family Medicine
University of South Dakota School of Medicine
1400 West 22d Street
Sioux Falls, SD 57105
Telephone: 605-357-1500