• Portrait of Jose Francois
  • Head and professor 

    Max Rady College of Medicine
    Department of Family Medicine
    S100 Medical Service Building
    University of Manitoba
    Winnipeg, Manitoba, R33 0W2

    Phone: 204-318-2554  
    jose.francois@umanitoba.ca
    Fax: 204-789-3671

Cross-appointments:

Research themes

  • medical education
  • primary care

Research interests

  • care of the elderly
  • competency-based medical education
  • continuing professional development
  • distributed medical education
  • French-language minority populations

Research affiliations

Research groups

Research summary

As an educator, Dr. François has worked in the implementation of competency-based approaches in family medicine training and expanding rural training opportunities in the province. His other areas of educational research interest include, lifelong learning, and the assessment and feedback in the practice setting.

In the clinical sphere, he has worked to improve and study themes of access and quality of primary care including advanced access scheduling, shared-care models and interprofessional teams.

Biography

Dr. José François is head of the department of family medicine at the University of Manitoba’s Max Rady College of Medicine and provincial specialty lead medical for family medicine at Shared Health. He is also interim head of the department of emergency medicine.

Prior academic appointments include associate dean for continuing professional development and head, department of medical education in the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences.

Dr. François practices family medicine at Centre de santé St-Boniface, Victoria Hospital and ActionMarguerite. He has been active in many initiatives aiming to improve access and quality of primary care including advanced access scheduling, shared-care models and interprofessional teams.

Education

  • Master’s in medical education, University of Dundee (2009)
  • Family medicine residency, University of Manitoba (1999)
  • MD, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke (1997)
  • Bachelor of science, Université de Saint-Boniface (1993)

Awards

Canadian Associate for Medical Education (CAME) Certificate of Excellence (2014)

Contact us

Family Medicine
S100, 750 Bannatyne Avenue
University of Manitoba (Bannatyne campus)
Winnipeg, MB R33 0W2 Canada

204-318-2555
204-789-3671