Outpatient Primary Care Services
The division offers a comprehensive program of disease prevention and health promotion. This includes periodic health examinations with appropriate
screening for hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and common, treatable malignancies. Risk-factor identification and management are stressed along with interventions such as lipid-lowering diets, smoking cessation programs and exercise regimens. Adult immunization is provided. Periodic health examinations are stressed for both asymptomatic, apparently healthy patients and symptomatic patients with established medical problems. Continuity of care from a single staff internist is emphasized, including management of common acute ambulatory problems and appropriate referral to other specialists and subspecialists as necessary.
The General Internal Medicine Outpatient Teaching Clinics provide longitudinal care to patients from the intermountain region. For three years, each resident spends one-half day each week in his/her assigned clinic. The same faculty preceptor supervises residents in each clinic, allowing a close professional working relationship.
At University of Utah Health Sciences Center senior students take one-month block rotations on the General Internal Medicine service. They see consultations in the outpatient clinic as well as on the inpatient wards. A faculty preceptor supervises these activities.
The division is currently accepting new patients in the General Internal Medicine Clinic 2 at University Health Care and at the Madsen Health Center, Internal Medicine Clinic located at 555 Foothill Blvd.
