Transdisciplinary Understanding and Training on Research – Primary Health Care (TUTOR-PHC) 2023 Annual Symposium
TUTOR-PHC held its annual Symposium from April 24 to April 27 at the Ivey Spencer Leadership Centre in London, ON. This year the Symposium returned to an in-person event after being held virtually for the last three years. The Symposium is the start of the year-long TUTOR program. This is the 20th year of the TUTOR-PHC program – the only interdisciplinary primary health care research training program in Canada.
The Symposium was attended by a total of 15 trainees with 10 trainees from across Canada, one trainee each from Australia, New Zealand, UK, France, and India. Sixteen TUTOR-PHC mentors from across Canada also attended the Symposium and helped to lead the workshops and training sessions, as well as building working relationships with the trainees, thereby increasing the network of primary health care researchers across Canada.
The trainees were joined by two patient partners, Ron Beleno and Lorraine Bayliss, who facilitated a session on patient and community engagement in research.
Department members Amanda Terry, Judith Belle Brown, Graham Reid, and Maria Mathews led components of the Symposium for the trainees in attendance. TUTOR-PHC acknowledges the important support provided by the Department of Family Medicine and Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry.
The Symposium was a great success.
