Community & Partnerships
We aim to build and steward partnerships with community organizations and groups, public health units, and other health system and social services organizations – especially those serving equity-deserving communities – to promote better health outcomes.
This is about where people live their lives; bridging the gap between academic medicine and the experiences of the people who use, seek or need health care services.
We don’t build bridges to community alone; we do so through community-led partnerships with trusted organizations that have long histories of community-embedded work.
We appreciate that each community has their own specific conditions and needs that must be considered and addressed in deep collaboration with those groups and with purpose-fit approaches.
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DFCM News
Apr 9, 2025
From improving health-care outcomes and patient satisfaction to reducing clinician burnout, team-based primary care strives to address the complexities of modern health-care.
Apr 8, 2025
Having been in family and community medicine for almost four decades, Dr. Dave Wheler has been a pillar in the DFCM and Scarborough community. But, for Dr. Wheler, teaching has been one of his greatest professional accomplishments.
Mar 7, 2025
DFCM is honouring the women in primary care who lead, inspire and break barriers every day