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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

  • April 2025 Rounds

    Please join us for our upcoming research rounds with our department head, Dr. Robert Petrella! Sport Fandom as an Engagement Innovation in Hard-to-Reach Populations: A Cluster RCT to Evaluate a Community-Based Health Behaviour Change Intervention Date: Wednesday 16 April 2025Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM Pacific TimeLocation: Zoom Talk Abstract Obesity…

  • February 2025 Rounds

    Please join us for our upcoming research rounds with Nisha Malhotra (The Birthplace Lab) and Ruvini Amarasekera (R2, St. Paul’s Hospital) Date: Wednesday 26 February 2025Time: 12:00 – 1:30 PM Pacific TimeTitle 1: Healthcare Disparities in Canada: Examining the Role of Socio-Economic Status and Identity Factors (12:00 – 12:55)Title 2:…

  • Spotlight: Dr. Farah Shroff’s Contributions to Gender Equity Research and Education

    Dr. Farah Shroff is a Harvard-educated Canadian public health leader and the visionary founder of Health Together (formerly known as Maternal and Infant Health Canada). Through her work, she has tackled critical challenges affecting young ones, the environment and those who identify as women. Health Together is a global public…

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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