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Our Family Medicine faculty tell me that they love to teach because when they teach, they learn. Of course there are many other reasons why we choose to teach and chief among them is the opportunity to pay forward or give back what’s been shared with us as medical learners. more
Faculty Appointments and Promotions  DFCM, Faculty, University, national and international events, conferences and workshops are listed here. Print it out and mark your calendars. more
If you have return customers, you have a good business. If medical students come back as residents, that is considered the mark of a successful new Family Medicine Teaching Unit (FMTU). In July 2010, the Southlake Regional Health Centre (SRHC) FMTU welcomed back, this time as residents, three learners they taught as medical students. more Passion and a plan: the New Vice-Chair, Education There is significant untapped expertise in medical education among the DFCM faculty. It is the role of the Department’s Vice-Chair, Education to support faculty as they develop and share scholarly work. In other words, the Vice-Chair, Education is here to foster educational scholarship so our faculty’s knowledge, expertise and innovation can be applied more widely in medical education. more The Teaching Practice Program on tour The DFCM Teaching Practices (TP) program is on the road visiting preceptors far and wide. So far we’ve logged 3,500 hundred kilometres in 30 hours and visited 17 communities. more [back to top] For nearly sixty years, physicians in the United States have been working with Physician Assistants (PAs). In January 2010, the University of Toronto-granted degree, the Bachelor of Science Physician Assistant (BScPA), was inaugurated. The DFCM houses the twenty-four month degree program, which is delivered in collaboration with The Consortium of PA Education. more DFCM supports available to faculty DFCM supports available to faculty include medical information resources, technology to make teaching, learning and meeting easier, templates to give your reports, slides or posters a new look, funding to support your career development and training to support you as a teacher, physician and in academic family medicine. more New Master of Public Health in Family & Community Medicine Considering an academic career or ready to establish, enhance or expand your career? DFCM offers a new Canadian Master of Public Health (MPH) degree specifically for family physicians and other primary care practitioners. It is designed to prepare family physicians for academic and scholarly leadership. more A Quality Improvement Program update The Department’s Quality Improvement Program was formally established in April 2010 to set out the vision of Family Physicians leading improvement in primary health care. more Visit U of T's website for a look at faculty perks. http://www.hrandequity.utoronto.ca/benefits/perks.htm
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Publications by DFCM faculty and researchers During the one of the hottest summers on record in Toronto, DFCM faculty and researchers have been heating up the printing press with over 50 original research publications. We are please to acknowledge all of their hard work and congratulate them in their successful submissions. more Research funding awards recipients Researchers at the Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) are continuously building new collaborations and pushing the boundaries or primary care research with the help of funding agencies around the globe. We are extremely proud to see the quality and variety of funding awards that our researchers continue to secure. more Family Medicine research mentorship Although family medicine is an old profession, the practice of family physicians conducting primary care research is relatively new. It remains somewhat uncommon for family physicians to develop major research careers. Because of this, when family physicians do decide to enter the field, finding guidance on how best to blend the demands of being a practicing family physician and a primary care researcher can be somewhat challenging. more Profile of a research mentor: Dr. Rick Glazier Dr. Richard Glazier began his career as a family physician in the 1980’s in the small Ontario communities of Whitby and Oshawa just east of Toronto. After a very fulfilling three month locum that lasted six years, he decided that he wanted to have a larger impact on the field of primary care. more Notable media attention on recent research publications and studies Read and link to media that mentions DFCM research. more
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DFCM faculty and staff have received the following awards and grants since our last newsletter in August 2010. 
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