Montebello in the spring

Faculty Retreat

The 2026 Faculty Retreat has officially come to a close!
Faculty Retreat Banner for 2026 featuring a semi transparent anchor icon over a pink to white ombre background with white sparkles scattered around

The weekend was filled with inspiring conversations, collaborative learning, and meaningful connections among faculty members. The energy and engagement throughout the retreat reflected the strength and spirit of our Department of Family Medicine community.

This year’s theme, Anchored and Aligned: People, Systems and Purpose in Family Medicine, brought faculty together to reflect, learn, celebrate and connect.

We are already looking ahead to our next Faculty Retreat in 2028. While planning is still in its early stages, more information about the dates, location, program and registration will be shared as we get closer to the event.

In the meantime, we invite you to look back on the 2026 retreat and explore the Faculty Retreat Agenda  to revisit the sessions and activities that made the weekend so memorable.

Thank you to everyone who joined us in Montebello. We look forward to welcoming our faculty members back for another memorable retreat in 2028!

Anchored and Aligned: People, Systems, and Purpose in Family Medicine

Retreat Learning Objectives:

  1. Analyze strategies to strengthen Family Medicine’s role as a comprehensive clinical and academic discipline, including approaches that support high-quality, patient-centred care across diverse practice settings and population
  2. Examine how structural and system-level factors, including workload, administrative burden, misinformation, and access barriers, affect physician well-being, equity, and patient outcomes, and identify strategies for meaningful change.
  3. Critically assess the impact of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, on clinical decision-making, education, professionalism, and trust within Family Medicine.
  4. Identify and apply approaches that promote equity, cultural safety, and workforce sustainability, including strategies that support Indigenous health, Francophone and bilingual care, and mentorship pathways for physicians from underrepresented groups.