CFM is a Department of AIIMS Bhopal which will be expected to absorb talent, provide Family Planning and Triage clinics, Rural & Urban Community Health for the country and conduct research in national and regional health problems. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)-Bhopal has started a new department of community and family medicine (CFM) from their first academic session, started
in September 2012. "Family medicine is meant to provide personal, comprehensive and continuing care to the individual in the context of family and community"
CFM is promoting the concept of family practice and family medicine management, which are widely practiced and popular in Western countries, but not in India.The department is also providing rural and urban community health outreach preventive services in all initiatives of AIIMS-Bhopal. References
http://www.aiimsbhopal.edu.in/academics_and_research.aspx
"Students who will enroll in this program would look at the role of family and community both in prevention and mutual interaction of both. Students will learn to deal with epidemics and long-term diseases like AIDS, cancer, seasonal illness, non-communicable diseases like diabetes and hypertension, among others . The course will create better and holistic general practitioners who will have a holistic way for looking at cure, prevention and promotion of health,"
