Lucy Candib, M.D.

Academic Role: Professor

Faculty Appointment(s) In:
   Family Medicine and Community Health

Current Position Educator, Longitudinal Preceptor Program Education Harvard University, M.D., 1972 Family Practice Residency: Family Health and Social Service Center/UMass, 1976

Affiliations

Editorial Review Board member and reviewer, Family Systems Medicine
Reviewer: Annals of Family Medicine
Reviewer: Journal of Family Practice
Reviewer: Qualitative Life Research
Reviewer, Family Medicine

Scholarly Activity

Somatization in Primary Care
Bilingual Group Diabetes Visits: Supporting English- and Spanish-Speaking Group Medical Visits at a Community Health Center  (UMMS Public Service Endowment Grant)

Publications

Book:
Lucy M. Candib, Medicine and the Family: A Feminist Perspective.  New York: Basic Books, 1995.

Book chapters:
Lucy M. Candib, “A Venn diagram: feminism, family therapy, and family medicine.” In Louise B. Silverstein and Thelma Jean Goodrich (eds.), Feminist Family Therapy: Empowerment in Social Context.  Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association Press, 2003.

Lucy M. Candib, “A New View of Women’s Sexual Problems—A Family Physician’s Response,” in Ellyn Kaschak and Leonore Tiefer, (Eds) A New View of Women’s Sexual Problems.  Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2002.   Also published in Women & Therapy: A Feminist Quarterly  2002; 24(1/2):9-15.

Articles in refereed journals:

      Dickinson WP, Dickinson LM, deGruy FV, Main DS, Candib LM, Rost K. A randomized clinical trial of a care recommendation letter intervention for somatization in primary care. Annals of Family Medicine. 2003;1:228-235.

W. Perry Dickinson, L. Miriam Dickinson, Frank V. deGruy, Lucy M. Candib, Deborah Main, Kathryn Rost, “The Somatization in Primary Care Study: A Tale of Three Diagnoses,” General Hospital Psychiatry,  2003; 25:1-7.

Lucy M. Candib, “Truth telling and advance planning at the end of life: problems with autonomy in a multicultural world,” Families, Systems, & Health 2002; 20:213-228.

Lucy M. Candib, “Working with suffering,” Patient Education and Counseling 2002; 48:43-50.

Lucy M. Candib and Jeffrey Stovall, “Behavioral Science and Family Medicine in Vietnam: Toward a blending of cultures; A response to Schirmer and Ninh,” Families, Systems & Health 2002; 20: 311-320.

Warren Ferguson and Lucy M. Candib, “Culture, language, and the doctor-patient relationship,” Family Medicine
2002; 34:353-361.

Lucy M. Candib and Lillian Gelberg,  “How will family physicians care for the patient in the context of family and community?” Family Medicine 2001; 33:298-310

Biography

Dr. Candib is a family physician educator who has taught and practiced family medicine, including obstetrics, at the Family Health Center of Worcester for the past 27 years. This health center is a residency training site within UMass Family Practice Residency Program. Dr. Candib is a co-author in research on somatization in primary care and has conducted research on the use of massage therapy for chronic pain. In the course of treating patients with chronic illness, Dr. Candib has recently developed innovative group visits for English- and Spanish-speaking patients with diabetes at the Family Health Center. She has written and lectured on the subtleties of cross-cultural health care. She has also focused attention on the concerns of women trainees and practitioners in her work with family practice residents. She has written and lectured widely on the topics of sexual abuse and violence against women. Current projects are a feminist approach to diabetes and a reflection on the meaning of long-term continuity of care to patients.
The author of numerous articles in referreed journals, Dr. Candib has introduced a feminist critique of medical theory in her book, Medicine and the Family: A Feminist Perspective (Basic Books, 1995). In 1995 she received a Fulbright grant to teach family medicine in Ecuador. She works 3 days a week at the health center and spends 2 days on other academic pursuits. She lives with her life partner, Richard Schmitt, with whom she has raised Addie, 19, and Eli, 15.

"I have been teaching family practice residents for 18 years. Many are now teachers, program directors, and faculty themselves. Many practice in underserved settings as they learned to do in training. I feel part of a long stream of committed family physicians."

Areas of interest: Women's Health, the Doctor-Patient Relationship, the Feminist View of Medicine, Women Physicians, Medical Interviewing, and Continuity of Care.

Office: City Hospital
Phone: 508-860-7700
E-mail: Lucy.CandibFHCW@umassmed.edu

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