Department of Family Medicine

Dear Colleagues,

It is with excitement that I announce that 2023 is the Department of Family Medicine’s 50th anniversary – and we are one of the oldest departments in the country. Starting with a single office in Milton, Vermont in the early 1970’s our network department has steadily matured it’s mission and grown across our region over the past 50 years. As an academic network department, we have committed to providing comprehensive primary care for patients and families of all ages – in the communities where they reside, and we provide acute care medicine, hospice and palliative medicine, and general dentistry care with great pride. We have an amazing medical education portfolio, teaching undergraduate students, medical and nurse practitioner students, residents and fellows, and our peers. We have four GME programs and multiple CMIE programs. Our scholarship is broad and impactful, including communication and caregiver research, educational systems, health services, and emerging care solutions.

Starting with a vision, then the identification of just four providers and one office, we have matured to over 220 providers, 60 salaried faculty, 178 volunteer faculty, and 31 ambulatory offices plus facility care locations across Vermont and Northern New York. We have so much to be proud of for providing a major foundation for primary care in Vermont and Northern New York, for our commitment to our communities and health equity, for training tomorrow’s health care providers, and for advancing the art and science of health care. We are counted on and we deliver! There will be more detail to follow about our 50th anniversary, but I wanted to let you know that we collectively are a remarkable success for our region! Stay tuned...

Thank you so much for all that you do!

Tom Peterson, MD