Today's Caribbean requires Family Physicians who can deliver high quality comprehensive and continuous personal medical care to individuals and their families within a community context. The Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, Mona offers a graduate diploma in Family Medicine  which helps post-internship doctors and general practitioners in the Caribbean to broaden knowledge and understanding of health and illness and their dynamics in the community in relation to the socio-economic and cultural environment of the community. It also enhances professional competence, attitudes, values and behaviour and develops attitudes and skills to allow the medical practitioners to work effectively as members and leaders of a health care team in the context of the policy and reality of the health care systems in the Caribbean.

Graduates further develop skills in effective, continuing, self-directed medical education and keep abreast of advances in medical sciences and technology used in primary care practice.

Pictured above: Dr. Kristen Smith, Lecturer, Department of Community Health and Psychiatry
Family Medicine Residents [L-R]:
Dr. Rebekah Hoilett-Duncan
Dr. Courtney Harris
Dr. Schauna-Gaye Linton