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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Dr. Nichole Fairbrother Wins PWHR Mid-Career Excellence in Women’s Health Research Award
Dr. Nichole Fairbrother’s work is transforming how we screen, understand, and support perinatal mental health. Learn more about her work and those of other award winners here.
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Beyond the Clinic Walls: UBC Students Experience Rural Medicine and Community Life
Launched as part of the Rural Education Action Plan (REAP), the Rural Medicine Community Experience gives pre-clerkship medical students a rare opportunity to shadow rural family physicians and see first-hand what life and work look like in rural British Columbia. Learn about student experiences in rural medicine. Article and image…
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How Rural Hospitals Could Cut BC’s Surgery Wait Times
Performing minor surgeries in rural hospitals could help improve the provincial surgery backlog without cutting corners on the quality of health care, says Dr. Jude Kornelsen (UBC Department of Family Practice, Centre for Rural Health Research). Article and image via The Tyee.
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.