
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.
-
From Clinical Practice to Research: an Interview with Dr. Wendy V. Norman
Learn about Dr. Wendy Norman’s journey from rural family physician to internationally celebrated researcher, and the DFP Clinician Scholar Program that helped her along the way.
-
Leadership Announcement | UBC Department of Family Practice Welcomes Dr. Margaret Manville as Director, Undergraduate Program
The UBC Department of Family Practice welcomes Dr. Margaret Manville as the incoming Director of our Undergraduate Program, as of July 1, 2025.
-
DFP Department Members Honoured with 2025 BC Rural Health Awards
Congratulations to DFP Clinical Faculty Drs. Karen Forgie, Bruce Hobson, and Garnett Tarr on being awarded RCCbc 2025 BC Rural Health Awards for Lifetime Achievement. Congratulations to R1 resident Dr. Yonabeth Nava de Escalante on winning the 2025 Resident Leadership Award.
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.