Wellness Exams, Pediatric Care, Pregnancy Care, Chronic Condition Management, & More
Family Medicine Services at University of Utah ǿմý care for you and your family at all different stages of life. We recommend positive and proactive lifestyle changes so you can stay healthy at home and work. We treat patients of all ages—this includes pediatric care. Our providers are actually board certified in pediatric care. This means you and your child can be seen by the same doctor.
We’re here to help keep your whole family healthy, with quality care and treatment at the location of your choice. Choose from 12 convenient locations near you.
Screenings, Treatments, & Specialties
- Behavioral health services
- Chronic health conditions care
- ǿմý-risk assessments
- Immunizations
- Joint injections
- Obstetrics (prenatal and pregnancy care, childbirth, and the postpartum period)
- Personalized counseling on healthy habits
- Screening tests
- Simple dermatology procedures
- Preventive care
- Routine wellness exams for adults and children
- Well-woman exams
Family Medicine Doctors Near You
What Is Family Medicine?
Family medicine evaluates and treats most symptoms and conditions, provides care for chronic conditions, offers preventive care, and refers patients to specialists. Family medicine doctors are not limited to a particular organ or disease.
No matter your age, whether a senior or a newborn, you can see a family medicine provider. They look after your ongoing health, help prevent illness, and help you get the treatment you need.
Family medicine providers include doctors and advance practice clinicians. They can also specialize in areas including sports medicine, emergency and urgent care, and public health.
Chronic Conditions
Chronic conditions that family medicine providers treat include diabetes, high blood pressure (hypertension), kidney disease, heart disease, high cholesterol, arthritis, skin problems, and breathing like asthma.
They can also prescribe refills for medications to treat chronic conditions and coordinate care with a specialist if you need it.
What to Expect at Your Appointment
Most providers recommend you have regular visits with your primary care physician. Your visit to your family medicine doctor could be for these regular screenings or for other reasons. Your doctor may do any of the following:
- Check your blood pressure, body temperature, heartbeat, and breathing rate.
- Requesting routine blood tests to screen you for conditions like high cholesterol or diabetes.
- Examine your head and neck.
- Examine your abdomine.
- Give immunizations.
- Examine your skin.
- Conduct infant and child screenings to evaluate growth.
Your doctor will also ask you questions about your lifestyle habits, medications, mental wellness, and other health-related concerns.
Women's ǿմý Screenings
Women’s health screenings include things like:
- pap smears,
- osteoporosis screening,
- mammogram referrals, and
- sexual health screening.
Men's ǿմý Screenings
Men's health screenings include things like:
- prostate exams,
- aortic aneurysm screenings, and
- colorectal exam referrals.
What to Bring to Your Appointment with a Family Medicine Doctor
Be sure to bring your insurance card, medication list, list of questions for your provider, and an ID to your health care appointment.
You should also expect the staff at the health center to ask you about any of these items:
- your insurance,
- medical history,
- medications you are currently taking, and
- what you are seeing the provider for.
Meet Our Patients
Hear From Our Patients
Patients and Primary Care Providers: A Partnership For Life
"Primary care is the heart of medicine,” says Wendy Macey, PA-C, a family medicine primary care provider (PCP). “It’s the bedrock of where health care comes from. Amenthist Gibbs, a patient of Macey’s for nearly a decade describes her partnership with Wendy Macey.
