Lashanda Skerritt
PhD student
"The PhD program in Family Medicine and Primary Care provides a foundation for research trainees to study the complex social and structural contexts in which health services are delivered.鈥澨�
Nadia Sourial
PhD graduate
鈥淚 went into family medicine to have a broader expertise. Completing a PhD in primary care helps me stand out as a researcher. It helped open the door to more opportunities.鈥�
Marwa Ilali
MSc Student
鈥淧ursuing an MSc in Family Medicine is one of the best decisions I鈥檝e ever made. I鈥檓 learning innovative approaches to improve the health of not only individuals, but also families, communities, and society.鈥�
Research-oriented, thesis-based graduate programs听in family medicine and primary health are offered at both听惭厂肠听and听笔丑顿听濒别惫别濒蝉.听笔辞蝉迟诲辞肠迟辞谤补濒听training opportunities are also available.听
Research topics in the field of family medicine and primary health care听cross conventional discipline boundaries and research traditions. Our training program incorporates an听interdisciplinary approach听with an emphasis on听community engagement.听The program provides rigorous training in听qualitative, quantitative,听mixed methods,听knowledge synthesis and participatory research approaches.听
The dynamism and uniqueness of our Graduate Program stem from the pairing of dedicated supervisors with our passionate students.听Through this matching process, students receive personalized mentorship and supportive guidance towards excellence in research and professional next steps.
Close links are maintained with the many family medicine clinical sites located across Montreal and in Quebec,听as well as听with听the 海角社区 Primary Care Research Network.
Who
If you are a motivated learner, interested in rigorous training in methods appropriate for research in family medicine, and primary care with world-class faculty, this is the program for you.听Our faculty represents academic excellence and applied expertise across a broad range of topic areas, including cultural safety, infectious diseases, non-communicable and chronic diseases, safe motherhood, aging, HIV, community-engaged healthcare, and indigenous health, among others. We admit students from a vast variety of disciplines, with diverse academic and career trajectories.
Why
Our programs prepare our graduates for diverse positions in industry, government and academic institutes, health care organizations and beyond. They regularly find enriching opportunities where competencies in community engagement, quantitative and qualitative and participatory approaches, scientific inquiry, data analysis and knowledge translation are highly sought after. Our graduates stand out for their exposure to interdisciplinary approaches to health and wellbeing and their ability to apply these approaches on both local and global scales.
Our department is in the beating heart of Montreal鈥檚 care networks in C么te-des-neiges with a recently renovated department space, including a dedicated workspace for graduate students and a new student lounge. We offer competitive funding for multi-year tuition assistance and financial support to attend international conferences to present your thesis work.
Our students build their peer networks by joining our dynamic and active student society, the Family Medicine Graduate Student Society which leads many social and career-oriented activities.
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