
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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Clinical Faculty Feature: Dr. Shaun van Zyl (UGME Year-3 Rural Family Medicine Program Director)
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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BEACON Program Awarded Funding to Integrate Cancer Prevention into Precision Contraception
The BEACON program (Biologic basis of contracEptive choice Associated ovarian Cancer risk: from populations through cells to actiON), led by GCI Members Drs. David Huntsman, Gillian Hanley, and Wendy Norman, has been awarded $2M from CIHR’s Bringing Biology to Cancer Prevention Team Grants to integrate cancer prevention into precision contraception.
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Celebrating Newly Promoted DFP Clinical Faculty | Winter 2026
Please join the Department of Family Practice in celebrating Clinical Faculty members who were promoted to their new ranks, as of January 1, 2026!
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.








