Spring / Summer 2025 Newsletter

    • Chair's Message
      After a brief pause since the fall, it’s a pleasure to be back in touch through our Department of Family Medicine newsletter. We have just wrapped up another academic year, are already into the heat of summer, as well as having launched the new academic year July 1st. This is a welcome moment to reflect, reconnect, and recognize all that we’ve accomplished together. Whether you are faculty, staff, a resident, or a medical student, you have played a vital role in our Department’s ongoing story. In the message that follows, I’ll share some of the key highlights from 2024–25 and celebrate the milestones, progress, and people that have made this year so meaningful.

    • Undergraduate Report
      We’re excited to gear up for the start of a new academic year this September. Meds 2026 are currently wrapping up their third-year clerkship rotations and finalizing plans for their fourth-year electives. Meds 2027 will begin their clerkship rotations in September. Meds 2028 and Meds 2029 will be participating in the Longitudinal Clinical Experience (LCE) throughout the academic year. 

    • Postgraduate Report
      The Family Medicine Postgraduate Program would like to sincerely thank the following faculty members for their dedication to the Postgraduate Program: Dr. Munsif Bhimani, Dr. Paige Hacking, and Dr. Firas Al-Dhaher. We would also like to welcome the following faculty members to their new roles commencing in the 2025-26 academic year: Dr. Kevinjeet Mahngar and Dr. Nisha Arora.

    • Graduate Report
      Planning is underway for the Graduate Program’s on-site sessions that will be held in-person from September 15 - 26, 2025. Four MClSc students have accepted their offer and will be commencing in the 2025 fall term. Please join us for our Family Medicine Graduate Studies Reception/Awards Presentations on September 18, 2025 at 6:00 pm in WCPHFM, Dr. J. F. Sangster Atrium.

    • Research Report
      Hot Off the Presses! We’re pleased to share that two research papers and two commentaries by Department of Family Medicine faculty members, staff and graduate students are published in the current themed issue of the Canadian Family Physician, ‘Using Research to Navigate the Primary Care Crisis in Canada’. According to the editors, “articles published in this special issue of CFP exceeded a high bar for relevance and quality”. 

    • In the Media
      Dr. Kamila Premji is the lead author of the article Trends colliding: Aging comprehensive family physicians and the growing complexity of their patients. She joined CBC's London Morning host Andrew Brown to talk about the study and how we can prepare for the future of family medicine.

    • TUTOR-PHC 2025 Annual Conference and Symposium Report
      Transdisciplinary Understanding and Training on Research – Primary Health Care (TUTOR-PHC) 2025 Annual Symposium TUTOR-PHC held its annual Conference and Symposium from April 28 to May 1 at the Kingsbridge Centre in King City, ON. The Symposium is the start of the year-long TUTOR program. We welcomed our 22nd cohort of the TUTOR-PHC program, which is the only interdisciplinary primary health care research training program in Canada.