News and Events

Events

  • June 2025 Rounds | Dr. Ilona Hale

    Date: Wednesday 18 June 2025
    Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM Pacific Time

    Bringing Environmental Sustainability to Research

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  • May 2025 Rounds | Dr. Jude Kornelsen and Asmaa Anwar

    Date: Wednesday 14 May 2025
    Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM Pacific Time

    Housing Is Healthcare: Equity In Access For All Residents

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  • April 2025 Rounds | Dr. Robert Petrella

    Please join us for our upcoming research rounds with our department head, Dr. Robert Petrella! Sport Fandom as an Engagement Innovation in Hard-to-Reach Populations: A Cluster RCT to Evaluate a Community-Based Health Behaviour Change Intervention Date: Wednesday 16 April 2025Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM Pacific TimeLocation: Zoom Talk Abstract Obesity is a relapsing, progressive chronic…

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News and Announcements

  • UBC and BC Rural Health Network Address the Gap Between Community Voices and Policy and Decision Making

    Advancing Community Engagement in Healthcare in Rural BC: A gap analysis to improve community involvement in healthcare A recent gap analysis has been published by the UBC Centre for Rural Health Research (Department of Family Practice) and the BC Rural Health Network. The Gap Analysis project was funded by the Social Planning and Research Council…

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    DFP Launches Curriculum Mapping App

    collaboration with the UBC Faculty of Medicine’s Digital Solutions EdTech team, the UBC Family Practice Residency Program created a user-friendly, highly intuitive and standardized curriculum mapping tool that is consistent across all of the program’s distributed training sites.

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  • R3 Enhanced Skills Program Openings

    The Department of Family Practice offers a number of residency positions for family physicians in the province of British Columbia for the purpose of developing specific advanced skills. These positions represent a commitment on the part of the department, and the Faculty of Medicine, to respond to community needs in an effective way.  See below…

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    February 2024 Cedar Award: Dr. Caroline Shooner

    The Department is proud to recognize Dr. Caroline Shooner as the recipient of the February Cedar Award. Dr. Shooner is a family physician and GP oncologist. Dr Shooner is the educational lead at Haida Gwaii Hospital, responsible for both medical students and residents rotating at the remote, rural site.

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