Family Medicine

Are you looking for a primary care physician (PCP) who can care for you and your entire family?

UC San Diego Health family medicine doctors have the skills and experience to provide comprehensive health care for patients of all ages, from infants to seniors. Your family medicine PCP will build a long and caring relationship with everyone in your family.

Our team is here to treat common and long-term illnesses while offering preventive care that focuses on your overall health and well-being. If needed, we can refer you to our world-class specialists and coordinate your care.

As part of the only academic medical center in the region, we conduct research to discover better, safer treatments for you.

What is Family Medicine?

Unlike other specialties that focus on a particular organ or disease, family medicine treats most ailments and provides comprehensive medical care for people of all ages and health conditions.

Family medicine at UC San Diego Health prioritizes personal relationships and a model of compassionate care that puts our patients first.

In many ways, our approach to family medicine re-establishes the traditional importance of the family doctor — also called general practitioners (GPs) — but within the modern context of a highly advanced, complex medical system.

Patient-Centered Care

Our family medicine PCPs deliver the highest quality of care customized for you. We offer services that help simplify and clarify your path to health and well-being.

By emphasizing communication, shared decision-making, accessibility and continuity of care, your family doctor's office can become your medical home, where all aspects of care can be coordinated in a warm, welcoming and familiar environment.

Family Medicine Services

We provide several services to optimize your health, including:

• Helping you obtain appointments to see medical specialists
• Reviewing test results and notes from appointments with specialists or diagnostic and laboratory results with you
• Charting a strategy with you for managing a chronic condition, "getting to the bottom" of an unresolved health concern or staying the course to maintain good health
• Helping you keep current with routine examinations, screenings and immunizations, including annual flu shots
• Encouraging education and involvement in your care
• Ensuring you have timely access to physicians and communication with medical professionals through the secure online tool MyUCSDChart or by phone
• Providing effective preventive care, including annual Medicare wellness visits, if you're on Medicare

Specialty Care Offered Through Family Medicine

Behavioral and Mental Health

You can receive short-term therapy (for a few weeks or months) for common mental health concerns — such as insomnia, anxiety, depression and family and relationship problems — right in your primary care clinic. Our integrated behavioral health providers can help you learn useful coping skills to enhance your health and well-being. Read the details and learn how to get a referral from your PCP.

Obstetric and Gynecological Care

All our family medicine offices offer prenatal care throughout pregnancy and well-woman services.

Sports Medicine

Whether you are an aging jock, weekend warrior or competitive athlete, our sports medicine physicians can address and treat your musculoskeletal and orthopedic problems and keep you training.

Chronic Care Management

If you have a chronic condition, we'll develop a strategy for managing it with a multidisciplinary team of health professionals. You'll learn to play a more proactive role in managing your health.

Shared Medical Appointments

If you have certain chronic conditions such as diabetes, we offer small group appointments to help you collectively work toward better managing your health issues.

Pharmacy Medication Management

Some people have complex medication regimes, difficulties with side effects, medication costs or trouble administering medications as prescribed. If you fall in this category, you can get help through our pharmacy medication management services, a partnership with Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

Convenient Care

Countywide Locations

Located in several convenient locations around San Diego County, our family medicine clinics offer convenient access to world-class care for your entire family.

Same-Day or Next-Day Appointments

Some PCPs offer same-day or next-day appointments. You can also message your family medicine doctor's office through MyUCSDChart, your secure online health tool.

Video Visits

If you prefer to get care from the comfort of your home, you can schedule video visits online with your family medicine doctor.

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