Primary Care
Who We Are
Family physicians, emergency physicans, psychologists and educators
The Department of Primary Care (DPC), one of the founding departments of the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, is also its largest clinical department. It represents a diverse group of family physicians, emergency physicians, psychologists and educators who teach at all levels of the medical education continuum. Most provide clinical services to the community and many are actively involved in clinical research.
DPC serves as the academic base for the office of faculty development and is the academic home for family physicians, osteopathic manipulative medicine physicians and emergency physicians, who serve as preceptors for the Heritage College students in their clinical training years at Centers for Osteopathic Research and Education (CORE) sites throughout Ohio.
Departmental faculty serve as preceptors for students at all levels, from the youngest Phase I student to PGY III family medicine residents. Many serve as course coordinators, block team leaders and facilitators in the Heritage College’s two curricular tracks.
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Events
Monday, December 2
Athens Primary Care Clinic
8:30 AM — 3:30 PM
Heritage Community Clinic Grosvenor Hall West Ohio University
June 23, 2016
Tom Fries, a Democrat from Dayton, was serving his third term in the Ohio House of Representatives when he became lead sponsor of the 1975 legislation that created what is now the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine.
May 19, 2016
A graduate of the college's inaugural class of 1980 is thankful for “the chance to have the most fascinating life I could possibly imagine.”
May 18, 2016
This discovery revolutionized biomedical research, making national news at a time when gene-splicing was still in its infancy.
April 21, 2016
Ohio's governor and Legislature join in recognizing the college’s 40th anniversary.
April 1, 2016
At its height, the program reached an estimated hundreds of thousands of listeners in the United States, China, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the American Forces Radio Network.
- 40 Things to Know: Our college was led by the first female African American dean of a medical school
March 17, 2016
The 1993 selection our college's leader, Barbara Ross Lee, D.O., sister of Motown superstar Diana Ross, marked a step forward for diversity in medical education
January 15, 2016
Since the early 1980s, the arrival of this annual event means it's time for students, faculty and staff to brush off the formal wear and join in the Nae Nae.
December 21, 2015
November 23, 2015
Alumni from college's first decade remember janitor Sherman Brooks for always remembering students’ birthdays and offering a kindly word when they needed one.
November 16, 2015
We’ve chosen 40 facts, initiatives, ideas and people that make our college extraordinary. Follow along as we lift up a few of the things that shape who we are today.
November 16, 2015
Key health care partnerships help drive our primary care-focused curriculum.
October 15, 2015
The college opened in 1976, thanks to a clear vision, persistence and a healthy dose of courage.
October 15, 2015
The Youngstown Democrat saw the college’s potential to transform health care in southeast Ohio, so he forged a coalition of lawmakers, physicians and academics to charter and fund the college in 1975.