MD Program
The Department of Family and Community Medicine's (DFCM) MD Program in family medicine is part of one of the largest undergraduate medical education programs in Canada. As an MD student at the University of Toronto, you get the opportunity to explore a wide variety of career options in family medicine in both urban and rural settings. In the four years of your MD degree studies, you’ll experience innovative and integrated learning that balances clinical and community settings, work with world-class teachers, and gain exposure to a wide variety of patients.
Overview of the MD Program
Clerkship Learning Sites
Learning Resources
Interest Group in Family Medicine (IgFM)
Passionate about family medicine?
Join the IgFM and enhance your undergraduate experience.
Our group is run by students like yourself and offers all kinds of learning and leadership opportunities to strengthen your studies. It’s great networking whether you want to meet other students or senior family medicine professionals and offers an exciting social atmosphere. Some of the activities you’ll access include mentoring, speaker events, clinical skills workshops, a journal club, as well as, social opportunities.
As an initiative between the Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM), the Ontario College of Family Physicians (OCFP) and the College of Family Physicians Canada (DFPC), IgFM connects you to a wide network of people and resources.
Dig deeper into family medicine and engage with the family medicine community through IgFM.
Email us to find out more: igfm.exec@utoronto.ca
Teaching Medical Students
Learn about the opportunities available to preceptors to teach medical students.
Larry Librach Award for Excellence in Palliative Care Scholarship
Recognition of your scholarship projects on palliative care in the MD Program.
This award recognizes a Department of Family and Community Medicine resident or Faculty of Medicine undergraduate student who demonstrates excellence in palliative care scholarship and integrates principles, practices and philosophy of palliative care.
The awardee will be engaged in and have developed an academic project on a palliative care related topic under the supervision of a Department of Family and Community Medicine faculty member. Projects may pertain to any domain of scholarship i.e. discovery, integration, application or teaching & education. Examples of academic projects may include: quality improvement, clinical research, education scholarship, creative professional activities and leadership. The project contributes to an initiative or innovation that improves patient outcomes.
Annually, this award will support travel, conference fee expenses and accommodation, up to $1,000, to present peer-reviewed scholarly work at a provincial, national or international conference.
