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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Celebrating 2206 BCCFP Award Recipients
Congratulations to DFP Clinical Faculty members Drs. Winnie Su, Stephan Ferreira, Miranda du Preez, Sharmila Yang, Mannan Wang, Anita Ka-Fai Wong. Congratulations also to DFP Residents Drs. Ricky Tsang, Yonabeth Nava de Escalante, Joban Bal, Jeffrey Ding, and Daniel Budgell.
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Clinical Faculty Feature: Dr. Fernando Polanco (Cowichan District Hospital and on Penelakut Island)
Dr. Fernando Polanco is a Family Physician and Clinical Preceptor working with medical students and residents at Cowichan District Hospital and on Penelakut Island. In this Q&A, learn why Dr. Polanco is an advocate for safe environments for uncertainty for learners, and why he welcomes discomfort as an essential part…
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Enhancing Resident Training Opportunities in Team-based Settings through Team Learning: A TPCLC Story
For the past four years, the UBC Department of Family Practice has been conducting a project on Team-based Primary Care Learning Centres (TPCLC) with funding support from the British Columbia Ministry of Health. In July 2025, the project funding was renewed, in recognition of the importance of team-based care to…
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.