
Welcome to the Department of Family Practice
We stand at the forefront of transformative primary healthcare, blending education and research to create, implement and support team-based approaches to family practice. Together with our partners, we provide the next generation of family physicians and midwives the patient-centred foundation to shape the future of primary care in British Columbia.
News and Events
Department news, announcements, and updates
Click here to see all recent news and announcements.
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Department of Family Practice Faculty and Staff Win 2025 PGME Awards
Congratulations to DFP’s Dr. Dean Brown (Coastal), Dr. Lindsey Forest (Qu’wutsun/Cowichan) Lindsay Gowland (Enhanced Skills), Kristen Hart (South Okanagan), and Pamela Blake (Strathcona). Click to see the full list of Faculty of Medicine winners.
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Dr. Joana Gil-Mohapel Wins 2024-2025 Killam Teaching Prize
Dr. Gil-Mohapel is a lecturer with the Department of Family Practice who is also a member of UBC Faculty of Medicine’s MD Undergraduate program (UGME) and the Island Medical Program.
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UBC Department of Family Practice Researchers Win Community-University Engagement Support Funds
Congratulations to Department of Family Practice research faculty Dr. Farah Shroff and Dr. Mei-ling Wiedmeyer on winning Community-University Engagement Support Funds from the UBC Community Engagement Office. Learn more about their projects in the announcement.
With gratitude, we acknowledge that the UBC Department of Family Practice —encompassing our programs, clinics, faculty, learners and staff—is located on traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of Indigenous peoples—including First Nations, Métis and Inuit—around the province now known as British Columbia. In our work within the Department, we all have a responsibility to disrupt, dismantle and decolonize in order to unravel the ways in which settlers have exercised and continue to exercise their power and privilege with consequent impacts on First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples. We acknowledge the ongoing consequences of colonization and strive for reconciliation.