Director’s Message
Thank you for taking time to visit the Department of Family Practice Undergraduate website.
The Family Practice Undergraduate Program is nested within the UBC Faculty of Medicine MD Program. Our program has a strong presence across all four years of undergraduate medical education. We have a large cohort of dedicated clinical preceptors across the province, who offer the most distributed and diverse educational experiences in the MD program.
Clinical preceptors play a pivotal role in the success of our students throughout their four-year undergraduate medical education. In years one and two, students spend up to half a day per week with community-based family physicians. They also participate in family physician-led seminars on generalist approaches to common issues. In year three, about 10% of the class participates in a one-year integrated community clerkship, while the remainder participate in a block rotation clerkship year, including a four-week rotation in a rural family practice. Finally, in year four, students participate in two- and four-week electives in rural and urban, community and hospital-based family medicine.
We always welcome new preceptors to teach and mentor the next generation of family physicians – we can’t do it without you!
Each year, approximately 40% of UBC medical school graduates match to family medicine residency programs across the country, demonstrating the strong and positive influence our clinical preceptors have on our learners.
If you are a practicing family physician looking to become a preceptor for the Family Practice Undergraduate Program, please connect with our staff listed below. We would love to work with you.
Precepting for Years 1 and 2: Vera Maesen vera.maesen@ubc.ca
Precepting for Years 3 and 4: Prabhjot Singh undergrad@familymed.ubc.ca
Dr. Margaret Manville, FPFC, (COE)
Undergraduate Director, UBC Department of Family Practice
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Family Practice, UBC Faculty of Medicine
Program Goals
- Familiarize all students to the specialty of family medicine and its importance to patients and our health care system.
- Teach the family medicine approach to medical care through a generalist, patient-centred perspective
- Provide early and continuous family medicine clinical experiences to integrate and consolidate classroom learning
- Promote family medicine as a career and cornerstone of primary health care
Prospective Students
Out-of-province students should consult the Visiting Student Elective Program, organized by the UBC Faculty of Medicine MD Undergraduate Program.
Click here for details about the MD program admission requirements.