Chapter News: July 2025
The QCFP expresses its deep concern about Bill 106
The Quebec College of Family Physicians (QFPC) has taken an official position on Bill 106—An Act mainly to establish the collective responsibility and the accountability of physicians with respect to improvement of access to medical services—and shared its position statement in a news release.
The QCFP has also submitted a brief on Bill 106 to the Health and Social Services Commission and are closely watching the work of the Commission. Access to care should not come at the cost of quality, high-value care and the doctor-patient relationship.
QCFP Innovations Symposium–always a great success!
The fourth QCFP Innovations Symposium, which took place on May 23, 2025, featured 44 innovations, including more than 30 that were put forward by non-for-profit organizations. Read the Innovations Booklet (in French only). The Primary Care Innovations Booster was launched at the event. This ambitious initiative is to ensure the scaling up of primary care innovations that are of great value to society. It will support innovations through the evaluation, optimization, implementation, and dissemination.
The QCFP proudly announces its 2025 award winners
From left to right: Dr. Rosemarie Dupont, Dr. Alexis Ricard, Dr. Douglass Dalton, Dr. Philippe Karazivan, Dr. Stephen Nicola Di Tommaso, Dr. Éric Lavoie, Dr. Géraldine Layani, and Dr. Jean-Pierre Martineau.
The QCFP award announcement happened during Journée CQMF 2025, at the Palais des congrès de Montréal, on May 23rd. We are thrilled to honour the 2025 award winners, family physicians who are instrumental in shaping the profession and improving the health of Quebecers. The Family Physician of the Year Award goes to Dr. Stephen Nicola Di Tommaso.
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COVID-19 Community of Practice
The Changing the Way We Work COVID-19 Community of Practice for family physicians, created in partnership with the OCFP and University of Toronto’s Department of Family and Community Medicine, held its 93rd session on June 27th. The recording, slide deck and Q&A are available for review. The next session is planned for July 18, 2025.
Practising Well Community of Practice
Join the Practising Well Community of Practice on July 23, 2025, as our panel will review new nicotine products and discuss the best advice for smoking cessation and harm reduction for patients who are not interested in quitting smoking. Registration is now open.
Clinical Application of the Long-Term Care (LTC) Fracture Prevention Recommendations for Frail Older Adults
Registration for Clinical Application of the Long-Term Care Fracture Prevention Recommendations for Frail Older Adults is now open. Join us on July 25th for a session that aims to address existing care gaps by illustrating the application of pharmacological and non-pharmacological fracture prevention recommendations with frail older adults in LTC. Don't miss out—register today.
Shape the next generation of family doctors with the 2025 Student Shadowing Program
Alberta-based family physicians are invited to volunteer for the 2025 Student Shadowing Program offered by the Alberta College of Family Physicians and the Alberta Medical Association’s Sections of Family Medicine and Rural Medicine.
Through this program physician volunteers can share their experience and insight with incoming medical students and encourage them to make family medicine their specialty of choice. Sign up for the August 10–23 placement window! Complete the application form today.
Questions? Send us an email at [email protected].
Register for the “Managing Multiple Pain Conditions in a Patient” webinar this July
Take part in the last South Zone ECHO Series session on July 8th from 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. (MT). Learn how to list common conditions resulting in persistent pain and explore co-developed pain management plans using a biopsychosocial model of care. Sign up today.
Read the ACFP President’s op-ed in Alberta’s daily newspaper
In an op-ed for the Calgary Herald, ACFP Dr. Melanie Hnatiuk shares the organization’s position on investing in team-based primary health care in Alberta. She notes that, “Family doctors cannot continue to deliver care without a well-resourced and supported team. … The government must be clear-sighted about the investments needed to build a system that delivers for all Albertans.”
