FY25 Key Facts: UW Department of Family Medicine and Community Health

• Chair: David Rakel, MD

• People: 361 employees (including 201 faculty) plus 218 clinical adjunct faculty statewide (FY25)

• Revenue: $115.9M (FY25)

• Medical student education: In FY25, Office of Medical Student Education taught 324 UW School of Medicine and Public Health students through coursework, clerkship, preceptorships, required courses and electives.

• Residency: In FY25, 163 residents trained in our three-year, DFMCH-sponsored and academic partner residency programs in Baraboo, Elkhorn, La Crosse, Madison, Milwaukee, Monroe, Waukesha, and Wausau. All programs are fully accredited; five sites have also achieved osteopathic recognition. Of the 52 residents who graduated in FY25, 31 (60%) entered practice in Wisconsin.

• Fellowships: Academic, addiction medicine, integrative health, LGBTQ+ health, primary care research, and primary care sports medicine fellowships offered.

• Patient care: 18 statewide clinics providing 376,483 patient visits in FY25 (170,616 total patient panel).

• Research: $8.8M in grant awards in FY25. Research interests include addiction and substance misuse prevention and treatment, respiratory disease surveillance, and pain management. Wisconsin Research and Education Network (WREN) also conducts research in partnership with primary care clinicians and communities statewide.

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