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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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…
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In Memoriam: Dr. Bryan Clyde Bass (1958 – 2025)
The UBC Department of Family Practice remembers Dr. Bryan Clyde Bass, family physician of the Cowichan Valley community, and long-time clinical faculty in the UBC Department of Family Practice.
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In Memoriam: Dr. Marko Yurkovich (1986 – 2025)
The UBC Department of Family Practice remembers Dr. Marko Yurkovich, a treasured physician, colleague, and clinical instructor.
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.