The practice of family medicine provides opportunities for physicians to acquire and exercise a broad-ranging skill set, while offering the opportunity to develop strong, lasting relationships with colleagues and patients. Each member's experiences are unique, which is why the OCFP is proud to periodically feature interviews with some of our members, sharing their experiences and reflections on various aspects of family medicine.
Ensuring all Ontarians have access to a family doctor is an essential part of health equity. However, across the province there are over 2.2 million people who lack access to primary care. Even more ...
Throughout her career as a family and emergency physician, Dr. Nicole Nitti has seen first-hand many significant changes in primary care.
Sioux Lookout’s Meno Ya Win hospital started the summer with 56 open shifts in July and August, and only nine doctors in Sioux Lookout, already working full-time, to fill them.
Working as a rural Northern physician, Dr. Nick Potvin saw how something as simple as sending a patient for a routine test in a tertiary care centre can be a fraught process for doctors in the North....
Survival mode. That’s how Dr. Maurianne Reade describes the situation that she and her Northern Ontario family physician colleagues are in right now. Dr. Reade is a family physician with th...
As Associate Dean of Physician Workforce Strategy at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM), Dr. Sarah Newbery understands the struggle that doctors in Northern Ontario face each time they de...
In nearly 20 years of practicing family medicine, Dr. Sara Van Der Loo has never seen so many Northwestern Ontario hospitals struggle to keep their emergency rooms open.
Nearly 500 km northwest of Thunder Bay, sits Lake of the Woods District Hospital in Kenora, with an emergency department that is bursting at its seams.
For the past two years, Wawa’s emergency room has been struggling to stay open with just three full-time doctors, down from the six or seven the hospital would typically expect to have on staff...
The OCFP wishes to acknowledge the passing of Dr. Grahame Owen, President of the Ontario College of Family Physicians from 1980-81 on December 20, 2022.
Dr. Graham Swanson, who passed away unexpectedly last week, served as President of the Ontario College of Family Physicians from 1983 to 1984.
When we think of advocacy and the effort required to ensure our profession can thrive, our thoughts turn to Dr. Walter Rosser, who sadly passed away earlier this month.
Dr. Jocelyn Charles has said that she owes her life to a family physician who saved her when she was three years old; it could also be said that Dr. Charles has given her own life to family medicine....
It was early in her career when Dr. Anita Greig first identified a gap in preventive care resources for school-aged children and adolescents. As a resident, she received a checklist of recommended ph...
Dr. Mercedes Rodriguez is a family physician practicing in Orangeville, Ont. She sat down with our residents committee to discuss what inspired her to pursue family medicine, her clinical practice ex...
Toronto-based family physician Dr. Corey Bricks sat down with our residents committee to talk about what inspired him to pursue family medicine, his practice experiences working as a locum and in a f...
Our Residents Committee sat down with Dr. Naheed Dosani to talk about what inspired him to pursue family medicine, his practice experience providing palliative care to homeless patients, his advice f...
Read our interviews with family physicians in their earlier years of practice, discussing why they chose the professions, a typical week in practice, advice for new grads and more. In this debut Q&a...
