Family Medicine Specialty Committee

Who we are

The Family Medicine Specialty Committee (FMSC) advises the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) Board of Directors on all matters related to academic family medicine. Its purpose is to define the educational and scholarly components of the specialty, and set policies and standards to enhance the effectiveness of academic family medicine in the discipline of family medicine while ensuring meaningful links between education, scholarship, and practice.

Chair
Dr. Sarah Newbery

Past Chair
Dr. Katherine Stringer

Members
Dr. Jennifer Hall, Residency Accreditation Committee
Dr. Aaron Johnston, Section of Teachers Council (Interim)

Dr. Kendall Noel, Board of Examinations and Certification
Dr. Robert Petrella, Section of Researchers
Dr. Karen Schultz, Postgraduate Dean
Dr. Alenia Kysela, Family Medicine Chairs (Association of Canadian Chairs of Family Medicine)
Dr. Stuart Murdoch, Family Medicine Program Director
Dr. Peter Rogers, Enhanced Skills Program Director
Dr. Jocelyne Beelen, Section of Residents
Dr. Aisha Husain, Clinical Teacher
Dr. Roop Conyers, Clinical Teacher
Dr. Dominique Pilon, Collège des médecins du Québec

New positions (to be filled)
Undergraduate Leadership Representative
Section of Medical Students (Chair or delegate)
Two positions reflective of health systems, health workforce, government relations, and/or public perspectives

Observers
Dr. Glen Bandiera, Royal College
Dr. George Carruthers, Federation of Medical Regulatory Authorities of Canada
Society of Rural Physicians of Canada (to be determined)

CFPC staff
Executive Director, Academic Family Medicine
Manager, Academic Family Medicine

What we do

 

The FMSC is accountable to the CFPC Board of Directors.

The FMSC purpose is to:

  • Define the discipline of family medicine for educational standards setting and to guide educational development, ensuring meaningful links between education, scholarship, and practice
  • Oversee and guide residency training expectations, educational standards, and related policies
  • Continually reflect on social accountability acting where possible within the CFPC mandate to fulfill our purpose preparing and certifying the family physicians that Canada needs in support of the quintuple aim to improve patient experience, population health, provider well-being, value, and health equity
  • Advise, collaborate, and regularly communicate with the CFPC Board of Directors on current and emerging matters related to academic family medicine

The FMSC has the following responsibilities:

  1. Through educational action planning, continually review the state of family medicine education and the discipline, relative to our stated purpose and goals
  2. Oversee the development and approval of educational standards, policies, guidance documents, and position statements in the areas of certification and assessment, residency accreditation, and postgraduate medical education
  3. Remain informed, advise and provide oversight when appropriate on major initiatives originating from CFPC standing committees (Board of Examinations and Certification, Residency Accreditation Committee, Section of Teachers, Section of Researchers, Section of Residents, Section of Medical Students)
  4. Identify and advise on educational-, scholarly-, and practice-based issues requiring advocacy by the CFPC across the educational continuum and linked with practice and health systems
  5. Commission work and/or time-limited groups (e.g., committees, working groups, advisory groups, task groups, etc.) to promote and facilitate the educational development of family medicine according to our purpose and goals
  6. Advance the specialty of family medicine within the CFPC’s mission, goals, and strategic plan

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