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 updates, recognition, and upcoming events
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Developing a Capacity Estimator (CapEs) to Support Canadian Primary Care Planning in a Time of Crisis
Elka Humphrys and Morgan Price of the UBC Innovation Support Unit share their recent research project “Primary Care Teams Capacity Estimator”. This study’s goal was to estimate how clinical capacity changes when different healthcare providers are embedded in primary care teams. In this study, the team completed 7 modified Delphi…
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In Memoriam: Dr. Jack Taunton
On behalf of the UBC Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Family Practice and the Section of Sports and Exercise Medicine, it is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Dr. Jack Taunton, professor emeritus, physician, researcher and beloved colleague. His loss leaves a big hole in our sport…
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Ensuring equity is embedded from the outset, not as an afterthought, in healthcare improvement
Please join us for our upcoming research rounds with our department’s visiting scholar from Monash University in Australia and leading expert in this field, Professor Helen Skouteris When: Wednesday November 13 from 12:00 – 1:30 PM Pacific Time Where: Hybrid – Room 3132, David Strangway Building, UBC Vancouver Campus +…
With gratitude, we acknowledge that the UBC Department of Family Practice —encompassing our programs, 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 to support reconciliation within our department.
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