The Department of Family Medicine shall
- engage in carrying out teaching Family Practice clinics. The mission of the department is to promote quality health care through undergraduate and postgraduate education, Research and quality primary care clinical services.
- provide first contact care to the community by establishing a Family Practice Centre and free clinics, exposing the undergraduates to the basics of primary care through the community Family Practice Centre of the faculty.
- provide students the opportunities to visit community General Practitioners, the Outpatient Department at the TH Badulla, the Municipality clinic, the Maternal and Child Health Clinic etc as part of their clinical attachment.
