Section: Biography

Lucy Candib, M.D.

Academic Role: Professor

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

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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