Events
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April 2026 Research Rounds | With a Human Touch: Unpacking AI’s Expanding Role in Family Medicine
Date: 1 April 2026Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM Pacific Time
News and Announcements
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Clinical Faculty Feature: Dr. Fernando Polanco (Cowichan District Hospital and on Penelakut Island)
Dr. Fernando Polanco is a Family Physician and Clinical Preceptor working with medical students and residents at Cowichan District Hospital and on Penelakut Island. In this Q&A, learn why Dr. Polanco is an advocate for safe environments for uncertainty for learners, and why he welcomes discomfort as an essential part of growth.
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Enhancing Resident Training Opportunities in Team-based Settings through Team Learning: A TPCLC Story
For the past four years, the UBC Department of Family Practice has been conducting a project on Team-based Primary Care Learning Centres (TPCLC) with funding support from the British Columbia Ministry of Health. In July 2025, the project funding was renewed, in recognition of the importance of team-based care to the future of family medicine…
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One in 20 babies experiences physical abuse, global review finds
“About four to five per cent of parents are behaving in physically aggressive ways toward their babies,” said Dr. Nichole Fairbrother, Clinical Associate Professor in UBC’s Department of Family Practice and head of the Perinatal Anxiety Research Lab. “This should give us all pause and make us think about interventions that could shift behaviour.”
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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)!