Rob Hatch, MD, MPH

Dr. Hatch is a Professor and the Director of Medical Student Education in the Department of Community Health and Family Medicine. He serves as the Clerkship Director of the Family Medicine and Ambulatory Care Clerkship at the University of Florida College of Medicine. He attended the University of California, Davis where he received a B.A. in chemistry and a B.S. in zoology. Dr. Hatch attended medical school at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he received his medical degree and a master’s degree in Public Health. He was a resident at Blackstone Family Practice Center at the Medical College of Virginia where he also completed a faculty development fellowship. Dr. Hatch has received numerous awards including the Hippocratic Award (2006, 2010, 2014), college wide Clinical Science Teacher of the Year (in 2014, 2016); Best Doctors in America; and two national awards from the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (President’s Award in 2010 and Excellence in Education Award in 2019). Dr. Hatch has been a grant reviewer for several agencies and a reviewer for a number of journals. Dr. Hatch has served on numerous College of Medicine committees as well as committees of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and the American Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Hatch has written numerous refereed articles and book chapters, and is co-author of the book Fracture Management for Primary Care and Emergency Medicine. He has presented numerous regional, national and international workshops and presentations on various topics. Dr. Hatch’s areas of interests are access to health care for uninsured people, public health, rural medicine, sports medicine, fracture care by family physicians, substance abuse, the history of medicine, medical education, the medical school admissions process and spirituality and health. He is internationally known for developing the Spiritual Involvement and Beliefs Scale, which has been used by numerous investigators and translated into 10 languages