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Meet Dr. Hugh Blumenfeld
Department of Family Medicine
After receiving my M.D. from UConn in 2007, I
continued on at the residency program in family medicine where
I'd done my third year clerkship. I was drawn by the opportunity
to practice in the diverse, largely underserved community of
Hartford, with a 600-bed community hospital across the street;
we have our own inpatient service there as well as support from
residents and top-notch specialists in other disciplines. There
is also a strong focus on academics, with a majority of the
faculty presenting regularly at family medicine conferences at
the national level and creating opportunities for medical students
and residents to join them.
All in all, I felt I got an exceptionally rich
experience that extended far beyond the scope of the core family
medicine curriculum.
The time went by pretty quickly, continuing the
sense of collegiality and balancing work with self-care and home
life that had made my medical school experience so enjoyable. I
was encouraged to pursue my interests in primary care psychiatry
and medical informatics, using one of my six months of elective
time for a pain management/palliative care rotation and another
to develop a functional disease registry for our EMR. I also
spent an eventful month with the Hartford Health Department—which
just happened to fall during the onset of the H1N1 epidemic as
well as a massive city water shutdown. As a resident, I was also
invited to help launch a new UConn program—The
Urban Service Track (UST)—where
interdisciplinary groups of students from the medical, dental,
nursing and pharmacy schools study the unique challenges to
providing health care found in urban settings and participate in
a variety of service activities from free clinics for the
homeless to community gardens.
After graduating in June 2010, I was thrilled to
be invited to join the UConn Medical School Department of Family Medicine faculty here—and
so I have stayed, continuing to provide care for the families
I’ve treated for the last three years. I also supervise residents in
the hospital and teach courses at the medical school including
the first year course in clinical medicine and
Urban Service Track—heaven for
someone who likes to be in the thick of things.
All in all, I felt I got an exceptionally rich
experience that extended far beyond the scope of the core family
medicine curriculum.
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