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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Department of Family Practice residents win 2026 College of Family Physicians of Canada awards
Please join us in celebrating Drs. Joban Bal and Penelope Neocleous, who have been selected for 2026 resident awards, administered by the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) and the Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine’s (FAFM) joint Honours and Awards Program.
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Taking care of Canada’s aging population: How enhanced skills in Care of the Elderly can help
“The Care of the Elderly program really helps to provide that sort of bigger picture while diving deep into specialties to take into account the function and the frailty,” says Dr. Lisa Weger, Department of Family Practice Clinical Instructor and Director of the Care of the Elderly Program.
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Clinical Faculty Feature: Dr. Bret Batchelor (Revelstoke)
Dr. Bret Batchelor is Clinical Associate Professor with the Department of Family Practice who has been precepting with us since 2010. In this clinical faculty Q&A, Dr. Batchelor shares with us his best advice for nurturing critical thinking skills in residents, and how Guinea fowl tissue sample might work well…
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.