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. Flora Wong (Langley)
In this Q&A, Dr. Wong shares with us how curiosity can be the key to unlocking a better relationship between preceptors and learners, how training in a team-based environment can help residents navigate an increasingly complex healthcare system and what makes her feel like a rock star.
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Retirement Announcement: Dr. Betty Calam
Congratulations to Dr. Betty Calam, UBC Department of Practice Associate Professor, on her retirement as of July 1, 2026. Dr. Calam has been part of the DFP for more than 30 years. Throughout her career, she has been a dedicated researcher, inspirational medical educator, leader, and brilliant mentor. Click here…
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Year 2 Family Medicine Experience with Taryn Murray and Dr. Derek Adam
The Southern Medical Program (SMP) is one of the many distributed sites of the UBC Faculty of Medicine, where preceptors are essential to the education and success of our medical students. In these corresponding reflections, Taryn Murray, Year 2 Medical Student and Dr. Derek Adam, SMP Family Practice preceptor share…
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.