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Dr. Jacob Prunuske is Professor and Chair of Family Medicine. He earned his bachelor and medical degrees at the University of Wisconsin. He completed his Family Medicine Residency and Master of Science in Public Health at the University of Utah. Dr. Prunuske is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine. He enjoys mountain unicycling, biking, snowboarding, board games, reading, and cooking.
Citations listed below are presented in a standardized, modified format for display purposes only. They do not necessarily reflect the preferred style and conventions of the faculty member or discipline.
- Harriett, L, Anderson, L, Wheat SJG, Prunuske, Jacob, and Oshman, L. Signals and Preferences: Experiences of Midwest Family Medicine Residencies., 123-131. Vol. 57, Iss. 2 Family medicine, 2025. (DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2025.447031)
- Ventres, William B., Stone, Leslie A., Joslin, Timothy A., Saultz, John W., Aldulaimi, Sommer, Gordon, Paul R., Lane, John C., Lee, Eric R., Prunuske, Jacob, Gildenblatt, Limor, Friedman, Michael H., Fogarty, Colleen T., McDaniel, Susan H., Rohrberg, Tessa, and Odom, Amy. Storylines of family medicine III: core principles—primary care, systems and family, e002790. Vol. 12, Iss. Suppl 3 Family Medicine and Community Health, 2024. (DOI: 10.1136/fmch-2024-002790)
- Maeshiro, Rika, Jarris, Yumi S., Prunuske, Jacob, Carney, Jan K., Strelnick, Alvin H., Townsend, Janet M., Krane, N. K., Johnson, Sherese B., Howley, Lisa D., Cashman, Suzanne B., Deyton, Lawrence R., Ortega, LaVonne A., Lebwohl, Benjamin, and Fair, Malika. Public and Population Health in U.S. Medical Education: A Review of Guidance in Extraordinary Times, 1366-1380. Vol. 98, Iss. 12 Academic Medicine, 2023. (DOI: 10.1097/acm.0000000000005208)
- Morley, C P., and Prunuske, Jacob. Conducting a Manuscript Peer Review., 35. Vol. 7 PRiMER (Leawood, Kan.), 2023. (DOI: 10.22454/PRiMER.2023.674484)
- Phillips, J P., Prunuske, Jacob, and Wendling, A. Response to "Are Student Attitudes Toward Family Medicine Research Associated With Family Medicine Career Choice at the Individual Level?"., 419. Vol. 55, Iss. 6 Family medicine, 2023. (DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2023.266961)
- Beinhoff, P, Prunuske, Jacob, Phillips, J P., Edwards-Johnson, J, Holihan, S, Gomez, M, and Wendling, A L.. Associations of the Informal Curriculum and Student Perceptions of Research With Family Medicine Career Choice., 233-237. Vol. 55, Iss. 4 Family medicine, 2023. (DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2023.862044)
- Haq, Cynthia, Iroku-Malize, Tochi, Edgoose, Jennifer, Prunuske, Jacob, Perkins, Allen, Altman, Wayne, and Elwood, Sam. Climate Change as a Threat to Health: Family Medicine Call to Action and Response, 195-197. Vol. 21, Iss. 2 The Annals of Family Medicine, 2023. (DOI: 10.1370/afm.2973)
- Weeks, Natalie, Hughes, Meghan, Tong, Michaela H., and Prunuske, Jacob. In patients with atrial fibrillation, are rhythm control medications superior to rate control medications in decreasing mortality?, 23-24. Vol. 25, Iss. 10 Evidence-Based Practice, 2022. (DOI: 10.1097/ebp.0000000000001720)
- Ledford, Christy J., Guard, Esther L., Phillips, Julie P., Morley, Christopher P., Prunuske, Jacob, and Wendling, Andrea L.. How Medical Education Pathways Influence Primary Care Specialty Choice, 512-521. Vol. 54, Iss. 7 Family Medicine, 2022. (DOI: 10.22454/fammed.2022.668498)
- Nguyen, Bich-May, Liaw, Winston, Polverento, Molly E., Phillips, Julie P., Wendling, Andrea L., Morley, Christopher P., Young, Virginia, Kovar-Gough, Iris, and Prunuske, Jacob. Impact of Curricula and Electives on Primary Care Specialty Choice: A Narrative Synthesis, 572-577. Vol. 54, Iss. 7 Family Medicine, 2022. (DOI: 10.22454/fammed.2022.638811)
- Seehusen, Dean A., Raleigh, Meghan F., Phillips, Julie P., Prunuske, Jacob, Morley, Christopher P., Polverento, Molly E., Kovar-Gough, Iris, and Wendling, Andrea L.. Institutional Characteristics Influencing Medical Student Selection of Primary Care Careers: A Narrative Review and Synthesis, 522-530. Vol. 54, Iss. 7 Family Medicine, 2022. (DOI: 10.22454/fammed.2022.837424)
- Phillips, Julie P., Wendling, Andrea L., Prunuske, Jacob, Polverento, Molly E., Ledford, Christy J., Erlich, Deborah R., Guard, Esther L., Kost, Amanda, Kovar-Gough, Iris, Lee, Amy L., Liaw, Winston, Nguyen, Bich-May, Pratte, Morgan A., Raleigh, Meghan F., Sairenji, Tomoko, Seehusen, Dean A., Walker, Shelby, Young, Virginia, and Morley, Christopher P.. Medical School Characteristics, Policies, and Practices That Support Primary Care Specialty Choice: A Scoping Review of 5 Decades of Research, 542-554. Vol. 54, Iss. 7 Family Medicine, 2022. (DOI: 10.22454/fammed.2022.440132)
- Sairenji, Tomoko, Kost, Amanda, Prunuske, Jacob, Wendling, Andrea L., Morley, Christopher P., Polverento, Molly E., Young, Virginia, and Phillips, Julie P.. The Impact of Family Medicine Interest Groups and Student-Run Free Clinics on Primary Care Career Choice: A Narrative Synthesis, 531-535. Vol. 54, Iss. 7 Family Medicine, 2022. (DOI: 10.22454/fammed.2022.436125)
- Kost, Amanda, Phillips, Julie P., Polverento, Molly E., Kovar-Gough, Iris, Morley, Christopher P., Prunuske, Jacob, Wendling, Andrea L., and Sairenji, Tomoko. The Influence of Role Modeling and Mentorship on Primary Care Career Choice: What Can Be Gleaned From 30 Years of Research?, 555-563. Vol. 54, Iss. 7 Family Medicine, 2022. (DOI: 10.22454/fammed.2022.980735)
- Lee, Amy L., Erlich, Deborah R., Wendling, Andrea L., Morley, Christopher P., Prunuske, Jacob, Polverento, Molly E., Kovar-Gough, Iris, and Phillips, Julie P.. The Relationship Between Medical School Clerkships and Primary Care Specialty Choice: A Narrative Review, 564-571. Vol. 54, Iss. 7 Family Medicine, 2022. (DOI: 10.22454/fammed.2022.857719)
- Raleigh, M F., Seehusen, D A., Phillips, J P., Prunuske, Jacob, Morley, C P., Polverento, M E., Kovar-Gough, I, and Wendling, A L.. Influences of Medical School Admissions Practices on Primary Care Career Choice., 536-541. Vol. 54, Iss. 7 Family medicine, 2022. (DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2022.260434)
- Oestreich, Madeline, Polonio, Christopher, and Prunuske, Jacob. Is melatonin safe to use long term?, 15-16. Vol. 25, Iss. 6 Evidence-Based Practice, 2022. (DOI: 10.1097/ebp.0000000000001578)
- Blanco, Maria, Prunuske, Jacob, DiCorcia, Mark, Learman, Lee A., Mutcheson, Brock, and Huang, Grace C.. The DoCTRINE Guidelines: Defined Criteria To Report INnovations in Education, 689-695. Vol. 97, Iss. 5 Academic Medicine, 2022. (DOI: 10.1097/acm.0000000000004634)
- Kang, H, Prunuske, Jacob, Wendling, A L., Edwards-Johnson, J, and Phillips, J P.. FMAQ-S: Development of a Short Form of the Family Medicine Attitudes Questionnaire., 21. Vol. 5 PRiMER (Leawood, Kan.), 2021. (DOI: 10.22454/PRiMER.2021.767096)
- Johnson, Sherese B., Fair, Malika A., Howley, Lisa D., Prunuske, Jacob, Cashman, Suzanne B., Carney, Jan K., Jarris, Yumi S., Deyton, Lawrence R., Blumenthal, Daniel, Krane, N. K., Fiebach, Nicholas H., Strelnick, Alvin H., Morton-Eggleston, Emma, Nickens, Chloe, and Ortega, LaVonne. Teaching Public and Population Health in Medical Education: An Evaluation Framework, 1853-1863. Vol. 95, Iss. 12 Academic Medicine, 2020. (DOI: 10.1097/acm.0000000000003737)
- Prunuske, Jacob, Kang, H, Wendling, A L., Edwards-Johnson, J, and Phillips, J P.. Attitudes Toward Family Medicine Among Students Choosing Other Primary Care Specialties., 491-496. Vol. 52, Iss. 7 Family medicine, 2020. (DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2020.342498)
- Prunuske, Jacob. America Needs More Family Doctors: The 25x2030 Collaborative Aims to Get More Medical Students into Family Medicine., 82-83. Vol. 101, Iss. 2 American family physician, 2020.
- Minor, S, Huffman, M, Lewis, P R., Kost, A, and Prunuske, Jacob. Authors' Reply to Goertzen and Zelek regarding "The CoPPRR Study: Community Preceptor Perspectives About Recruitment and Retention"., 869. Vol. 51, Iss. 10 Family medicine, 2019. (DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2019.590705)
- Chandratre, S, Prunuske, Jacob, and Dodson, L. A Novel Curriculum to Facilitate Career Choice in an Accelerated Medical Education Program., 88-90. Vol. 118, Iss. 2 WMJ : official publication of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin, 2019.
- Phillips, J P., Prunuske, Jacob, Fitzpatrick, L, and Mavis, B. The Family Medicine Attitudes Questionnaire: A Valid Instrument to Assess Student Attitudes Toward Family Medicine., 493-501. Vol. 51, Iss. 6 Family medicine, 2019. (DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2019.957692)
- Minor, Suzanne, Huffman, Miranda, Lewis, Peter R., Kost, Amanda, and Prunuske, Jacob. Community Preceptor Perspectives on Recruitment and Retention: The CoPPRR Study, 389-398. Vol. 51, Iss. 5 Family Medicine, 2019. (DOI: 10.22454/fammed.2019.937544)
- Kost, Amanda, Bentley, Ashley, Phillips, Julie, Kelly, Christina, Prunuske, Jacob, and Morley, Christopher P.. Graduating Medical Student Perspectives on Factors Influencing Specialty Choice, 129-136. Vol. 51, Iss. 2 Family Medicine, 2019. (DOI: 10.22454/fammed.2019.136973)
- Morley, C P., and Prunuske, Jacob. Engaging With the STFM Conference on Medical Student Education: Proceedings and PRiMER., 6. Vol. 3 PRiMER (Leawood, Kan.), 2019. (DOI: 10.22454/PRiMER.2019.472580)
- Phillips, J, Prunuske, Jacob, Fitzpatrick, L, and Mavis, B. Initial Development and Validation of a Family Medicine Attitudes Questionnaire., 47-51. Vol. 50, Iss. 1 Family medicine, 2018. (DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2018.293942)
- Morley, Christopher P., Rosas, Scott R., Mishori, Ranit, Jordan, William, Jarris, Yumi S., Competencies Work Group, Family M., and Prunuske, Jacob. Essential Public Health Competencies for Medical Students: Establishing a Consensus in Family Medicine, 255-267. Vol. 29, Iss. 3 Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 2017. (DOI: 10.1080/10401334.2016.1268964)
- Fuglestad, A, Prunuske, Jacob, Regal, R, Hunter, C, Boulger, J, and Prunuske, A. Rural Family Medicine Outcomes at the University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth., 388-393. Vol. 49, Iss. 5 Family medicine, 2017.
- Prunuske, Jacob, and Remington, P L.. A Community Health Assessment Curriculum to Develop Population Health Competencies., 1. Vol. 1 PRiMER (Leawood, Kan.), 2017. (DOI: 10.22454/PRiMER.2017.1.1)
- McFarland, S L., Meyers, P, Sautter, R, Honsvall, A, and Prunuske, Jacob. Medical Student Decision Making Regarding Pursuit of a Public Health Degree., 203-11. Vol. 48, Iss. 3 Family medicine, 2016.
- Prunuske, A J., Henn, L, Brearley, A M., and Prunuske, Jacob. A Randomized Crossover Design to Assess Learning Impact and Student Preference for Active and Passive Online Learning Modules., 135-141. Vol. 26 Medical science educator, 2016. (DOI: 10.1007/s40670-015-0224-5)
- Hager, K, St Hill, C, Prunuske, Jacob, Swanoski, M, Anderson, G, and Lutfiyya, M N.. Development of an interprofessional and interdisciplinary collaborative research practice for clinical faculty., 265-7. Vol. 30, Iss. 2 Journal of interprofessional care, 2016. (DOI: 10.3109/13561820.2015.1092951)
- Prunuske, Jacob, St Hill, C A., Hager, K D., Lemieux, A M., Swanoski, M T., Anderson, G W., and Lutfiyya, M N.. Opioid prescribing patterns for non-malignant chronic pain for rural versus non-rural US adults: a population-based study using 2010 NAMCS data., 563. Vol. 14 BMC health services research, 2014. (DOI: 10.1186/s12913-014-0563-8)
- Prunuske, Jacob, Chang, L, Mishori, R, Dobbie, A, and Morley, C P.. The extent and methods of public health instruction in family medicine clerkships., 544-8. Vol. 46, Iss. 7 Family medicine, 2014.
- Prunuske, Jacob, and Deci, D M.. Learning environment: the impact of clerkship location on instructional quality., 193-6. Vol. 45, Iss. 3 Family medicine, 2013.
- Temte, J L., and Prunuske, Jacob. Seasonal influenza in primary care settings: review for primary care physicians., 193-200. Vol. 109, Iss. 4 WMJ : official publication of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin, 2010.
- Prunuske, Jacob, Crookston, B T., Alder, S C., Magill, M K., Mervis, A S., and Burt, R W.. Factors associated with refusal of colonoscopy., 161. Vol. 42, Iss. 3 Family medicine, 2010.
- Prunuske, Jacob. Live and Web-based orientations are comparable for a required rotation., 180-4. Vol. 42, Iss. 3 Family medicine, 2010.
- Magill, M K., Day, J, Mervis, A, Donnelly, S M., Parsons, M, Baker, A N., Johnson, L, Egger, M J., Nunu, J, Prunuske, Jacob, James, B C., and Burt, R. Improving colonoscopy referral rates through computer-supported, primary care practice redesign., 43-52; quiz 52-3. Vol. 31, Iss. 4 Journal for healthcare quality : official publication of the National Association for Healthcare Quality, 2009. (DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-1474.2009.00037.x)
- Prunuske, Jacob. On teamwork., 138. Vol. 39, Iss. 2 Family medicine, 2007.
- Prunuske, Jacob, Cochella, S, and Gunning, K. Is single-dose levonorgestrel as effective as other emergency contraception regimens?, 268, 271-2. Vol. 52, Iss. 4 The Journal of family practice, 2003.