The Section of General Internal Medicine provides comprehensive primary care and diagnostic services for adults and some adolescents. The faculty members provide care at a centrally located outpatient clinic and at three satellite clinics including a Women's Health Clinic. Primary care is provided to members of a large university-based HMO, as well as to patients with private insurance, Medicare and medical assistance. Faculty members also provide medical care at the South Madison Family Health Center, which provides care to Madison's underinsured and uninsured population. All clinics use a multidisciplinary approach to care with involvement of physician assistants, nurse practitioners, RNs and behaviorists in patient care. In addition, the behavioral medicine faculty in the general medicine clinics provide psychiatric evaluation and counseling services for common psychosocial problems. Clinics in smoking cessation and HIV are offered by the Section.

The Section has an inpatient service at UW Hospital and provides a consultative service at UW Hospital and the Veteran's Hospital.

The faculty members are a mix of clinician-educators and clinician-researchers. Faculty members' major areas of clinical and research interest include:

• Smoking cessation
• Women's health
• Women in medicine
• Preventive medicine
• Syncope
• Sleep apnea and hypertension
• Health care outcomes and quality of life assessment
• Computer applications to medicine
• Psychosocial aspects of health care
• Physician job satisfaction
• Doctor-patient interactions
• Care of underserved rural and urban populations
• Medical decision making
• HIV care