About Us

History

Family Medicine is a medical specialty that integrates clinical, behavioural and biological sciences to provide continuing, co-ordinated and comprehensive care to patients not restricted by diagnosis, gender, or organ system in the context of their family and environment.

Family Medicine practice emphasises the HOLISTIC care of patients from cradle to grave using the PSYCHOSOCIAL-SPIRITUAL model of care.

The emphasis is on the ‘patient’, and not the ‘problem’ and Patient Centered Clinical Method is the hallmark of Family Medicine practice.

It is one of the clinical departments serving the MBBS program of the University of Ilorin with postings spreading through the 5^th and 6^th years of the MBBS program as FM1 in 500L and FM2 in 600L.

The aim of the Family Medicine MBBS programme is to produce medical doctors suited to provide quality holistic, cost effective,patient-centred-care,at the primary care level to individuals and their families irrespective of age,gender or disease condition.