Hi Team! This short faculty development discussion session will focus on two important practice supports: the Faculty Feedback and Support Form, and the transition to One45 for Coaching Notes.
The session will provide a practical overview of both tools, clarify their purpose, and create space for questions and discussion.
The goal is to support preceptors and residents in documenting feedback clearly, using program processes more confidently, and strengthening the quality of coaching information that supports resident learning.
Please join us on Friday, May 22, 2026, from 7:00 to 7:45 am PT.
Department of Family Practice 2026 Research Half Day
Wednesday, June 3, 2026 | 9:00 am – 12:45 pm PT | Gordon & Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre (DHCC) | Virtual and in-person
The DFP Research Office is pleased to invite you to the 2026 Research Half Day on June 3. This will be a pilot event to celebrate the innovative research produced by our academic faculty, clinical faculty, learners, and staff. The event will include two research capacity building sessions and a research poster showcase.
Please register to join us using the link below. If you would like to include your research poster in the lineup, please write to Hiresh Gindwani at dfp.research@ubc.ca.
From generative AI chatbots to AI-based glaucoma screening, this issue explores the growing role of artificial intelligence in primary care. The possibilities are significant, but important questions remain around regulation, patient safety, and the meaningful empowerment of both patients and clinicians.
The UBC Faculty of Medicine is home not only to Canada’s largest family medicine residency program, but to more than 70 specialty and sub-speciality residency programs.
Together, these programs are equipping the next generation of doctors with specialized skills and knowledge to support patients and families facing medical challenges, ranging from cancer through to spinal cord injuries and dementia.
“When residents train here, they’re not just gaining critical skills, they’re joining a community of care professionals.”
– Dr. Matthew Turnock
Thanks to the Faculty’s province-wide approach to medical education that began more than two decades ago, UBC resident doctors can be found at more than 135 training sites across B.C., ranging from the community of Castlegar, nestled in the Selkirk Mountains of the Interior, all the way to the island archipelago of Haida Gwaii off the north coast.
Read more on Resident Doctors on the Front Lines via UBC.
Applauding New York City hospitals recent move to design a system tailored to its own healthcare context while ensuring that their patient data remains in-house. The NHS and Canada should consider a similar approach. More on the topic below:
Ensuring the sovereignty and security of Canadian health data via CMAJ.
New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK via The Guardian.
“But to be truly human means not abandoning those who need your humanity. Tell the world about us. Tell them that we were more human than those who only claimed to be. Tell them we chose death over abandoning our noble mission. Do not call us heroes-just tell them we understood what it truly means to be human.” Mohammed Saqer, Nursing Director, Nasser Medical Complex.
Two years into the conflict, and physicians and humanitarian workers continue to describe devastating conditions in Gaza. Dr. Elise Thorburn’s account of providing care in Gaza is deeply troubling. Her description of children with traumatic injuries, families living in tents, and hospitals operating with severe shortages reflects the devastating human consequences of prolonged conflict. These are not abstract conditions. They are lived realities for civilians, patients, and healthcare workers trying to survive and provide care under unimaginable circumstances.
These concerns echo themes raised in recent conversations at UBC’s RECAP: Health Report from Gaza, where speakers drew attention to the destruction of healthcare infrastructure in Gaza, the extreme pressures on physicians and trainees, and the broader humanitarian implications of sustained attacks on civilian life and medical systems.
At minimum, these accounts from multiple communities call on us to resist indifference. They ask us to recognize the human cost of conflict, to uphold the protection of civilians and healthcare workers, and to affirm the importance of humanitarian principles in times of profound suffering.
As members of an academic and healthcare community, we have a responsibility to engage seriously with these realities, to support the protection of healthcare workers and patients, and to affirm the importance of human dignity, medical neutrality, and access to care.
Further reading: N.L. doctor recounts horrors of month working in Gaza hospital treating Palestinian patients via CBC News Scared and malnourished – footage from Gaza shows plight of children and aftermath of Israeli strike via BBC BC Physicians Against Genocide: https://www.instagram.com/bc.physicians.against.genocide/
“A stunning tribute to the resilience of Native people and their way of life – SUGARCANE, the debut feature documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie – is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning. Set amidst a ground-breaking investigation into abuse and death at an Indian residential school, the film empowers participants to break cycles of intergenerational trauma by bearing witness to painful, long-ignored truths – and the love that endures within their families despite the revelation of genocide.
In 2021, evidence of unmarked graves near an Indian residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada sparked a national outcry about the forced separation, assimilation, and abuse many children experienced at this network of segregated boarding schools designed to slowly destroy the culture and social fabric of Indigenous communities. When Kassie- a journalist and filmmaker- asked her old friend and colleague, NoiseCat, to direct a film documenting the Williams Lake First Nation investigation of St Joseph’s Mission, she never imagined just how close this story was to his own family. As the investigation continued, Emily and Julian traveled back to the rivers, forests and mountains of his homelands to hear the myriad stories of survivors. During production, Julian’s own story became an integral part of this beautiful multi-stranded portrait of a community. By offering space, time, and profound empathy the directors unearthed what was hidden. Kassie and NoiseCat encountered both the extraordinary pain these individuals had to suppress as a tool for survival and the unique beauty of a group of people finding the strength to persevere.”
For those interested in how AI is emerging in healthcare and our clinical learning environment, UBC is hosting a session on The Health CARE-AI Framework: A New Guide for Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare Presenter: Dr. Lyn K. Sonnenberg, University of Alberta and Dr. Babar Haroon, Dalhousie University Date: Tuesday March 24, 2026 Presentation 1: 9:00-10:00am (PST) Presentation 2: 12:00-1:00pm (PST)
Family Medicine Residency Site: Abbotsford-Mission 