We need your best ideas and insights to help create the future of family and community medicine at the University of Toronto

 

Here’s how you can help:

➔ Read and annotate our What’s at Stake document

➔ Organize a dialogue with your colleagues

➔ Complete our departmental survey

➔ Read our workshop summaries

 
Dr. Danielle Martin

Chair’s Note

The department has been tested by the pandemic. Now we can look to the future.

 

As we emerge from the pandemic, the largest Department of Family and Community Medicine in the world is beginning the work of developing its next strategic plan. Primary Matters, our strategic planning process is a chance for us to determine and define our community, engage broadly and ensure diverse voices are heard as we seek to build a shared identity and advance a shared agenda.

We are embarking on a process to listen, learn and discuss. Together we will consider our priorities, our options, our big dreams, and our responsibilities. We will think about how we can best work together for the good of our Department, our patients and communities (both local and global), our faculty and learners, and our healthcare system.

The process will be guided by four Leadership Circles: an Internal Circle representing the various elements of our department, an External Circle bringing expertise and experience from diverse sectors and geographies, an Indigenous Circle led by our DFCM Indigenous health leaders, and a Lived Experience Circle helping to understand and embed the health and health system needs of patients, families and equity-deserving communities in the future of DFCM.

The resources on this site are meant to help bring us closer to a shared understanding and appreciation of the factors that will influence our conversations about the future of DFCM. We welcome you to help us continue to build the foundation that we are developing here by adding in resources that you think are important and relevant to this exercise by commenting in the What's at Stake document (link).

There are many opportunities for you to get involved, including completing the questionnaire (link) and hosting a small dialogue (link), and I encourage you to contribute your personal expertise and experience where possible.

 
 

Frequently asked questions

 

  • DFCM’s strategic plan is renewed every five years. The plan establishes important priorities for the department, which will then shape operational decisions related to staffing, budgets, new initiatives and policies. The current plan can be read here.

  • We need your insights and perspective to create a great new plan. There are several ways you can get involved — from organizing your own Primary Matters dialogue with colleagues to completing the departmental questionnaire. In the coming weeks, we will also be organizing a series of workshops and events that we hope you will attend.

  • Fantastic. We’d love to hear from you. Just drop the Primary Matters team a note at hello@primarymatters.ca and we’ll get back to you quickly.