Sep 19, 2025  |  ALL DAY

Counselling and Psychotherapy in Family Medicine Course

Program Objectives

This interactive program will provide an intensive year-long introductory curriculum on current approaches and techniques to help physicians increase their knowledge and clinical skills in office counselling and psychotherapy.

At the conclusion of this program, participants will have:

  • Increased their feeling of competence in office counselling and psychotherapy
  • Enhanced their ability to work with psychosocial issues and the patient-doctor relationship
  • Increased the time they spend in practice doing psychotherapy with individuals and families or couples
  • Increased their overall comfort levels in counselling individuals, couples and families

Target Audience

Family Physicians in active practice who are either doing or considering to do Counselling and Psychotherapy as part of their practice. This program is particularly valuable for those who did not receive training in Counselling and Psychotherapy in medical school.

Dates for the Next Program in 2025:

  • September 19-21, 2025
  • November 21-23, 2025
  • January 23-25, 2026
  • March 27-29, 2026
  • May 1-3, 2026

Mainpro+© and MDPAC Accredited

Mainpro+© Accreditation

This activity has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 73.5 Mainpro+® Certified Activity credits.

MDPAC Accreditation

This educational activity is approved by the Medical Psychotherapy Association Canada (MDPAC) for 65 Group CE Credits and 18 CCI Credits.

 

Learn more and register here: https://www.cpd.utoronto.ca/cpfm/