Francine Lemire

Research ArticleCollege Canadian Family Physician 68 (8) 626; DOI: https://doi.org/10.46747/cfp.6808626 Dear Colleagues, We acknowledge the messages of support we have received in response to our open letter describing the current crisis in family medicine (FM).1 Yet, we have been here before: the CFPC was created in 1954 at a time of deep concern for the future of general practice; and in 2003 medical students’ interest in FM was alarmingly low,2 as it is now.

Dear Colleagues, At the CFPC’s 2022 Leaders Forum, a gathering of elected leaders and staff from the CFPC and its Chapters, Dr Danielle Martin shared her thoughts on building forward, a theme of the May meeting. Dr Martin, keynote speaker and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto in Ontario, amplified the idea of creating a movement in family medicine (FM).

When, if not now? This was the urgent call to action that Dr Nicole Stockley issued at the Atlantic Patient’s Medical Home symposium held in April 2022 in Prince Edward Island.