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
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Clinical Faculty Feature: Dr. Charmaine Ma (Vancouver Fraser)
Get ready to meet some of the dedicated clinical faculty in our diverse and distributed community in this short Q&A series. In this editorial, meet Dr. Charmaine Ma (Vancouver Fraser)!
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DFP Research Highlight | Management of Pregnant People with High BMI at Rural Hospitals in British Columbia
As BMI increases, fewer people give birth at their local rural hospital. Strict BMI cut-offs for local births force patients to travel, often creating additional financial, emotional, and safety challenges. In response, rural health care teams are developing local guidelines, practicing emergency drills, and advocating for flexible, case-by-case decision-making rather…
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2025 DFP Research Wrapped
In 2025, researchers in the UBC Department of Family Practice published over 80 articles, in more than 20 journals, across three continents. If you missed them when they were first published, here is another opportunity to read the 18 papers that were the most widely read by our DFP community…
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.