About the Awards

This award recognizes the contributions of seven OCFP members – one from each region of the province – who provide exemplary comprehensive, lifelong care to their patients and make significant contributions to the health and wellbeing of their community and/or society in general.

As part of the adjudication process, one of the seven recipients will also be selected as the Reg L. Perkin Family Physician of the Year for Ontario, bestowed by the College of Family Physicians of Canada.

This award celebrates an Ontario family physician (or team of family physicians) who has effectively taken responsibility for their own performance and continuous learning to achieve quality results, to actively build coalitions and to create a climate of continuous improvement for a healthy Ontario. The impact of their leadership has made a significant and tangible difference and has been spread or scaled successfully.

Each year the call for nomination will focus on a specific area of leadership.   During this pivotal time for Ontario’s health system reform, the chosen theme is system level leadership. 

This award recognizes a family physician in Ontario who is an outstanding community teacher, preceptor and/or mentor, fostering quality learning in family medicine. The recipient is a successful role model who consistently provides a quality learning environment, inspires and motivates learners, and effectively builds their confidence and competence through collegial relationships. 

This award recognizes an early-career family physician (first 10 years) who has demonstrated exemplary dedication to family medicine and primary care in their practice and/or community.

This award recognizes a resident who is an emerging leader and advocate for family medicine. To qualify, the nominee must be a family medicine resident enrolled at an Ontario university in the 2019-2020 academic year.

This award recognizes a medical student who is an emerging leader and advocate for family medicine. To qualify, applicants must be a student enrolled in an Ontario medical school in the 2019-2020 academic year and demonstrate a recognized interest in family medicine and / or primary care.

These awards recognize family doctors who (individually or as a group) have demonstrated a specific and exceptional achievement within the past 24 months. Contributions not explicitly achieved within this timeframe will not be considered. It can be an innovation, project and/or specific contribution that has had a positive impact on patients, communities and/or the profession of family medicine.