Your 2025-2026 Co-Chiefs are Lauren Campeau and Jamil Kassam

This position involves overseeing all activities of the FMRA, running meetings, liaising with Faculty, attending monthly Residency Program Committee Meetings and taking on other roles as required to ensure the residency program is meeting the needs of its residents. 

Maha Niazi 

This position involves preparing FMRA meeting agendas and minutes, and sending out monthly email updates.

Samra Azhar

This position involves handling the money and budget for the FMRA, collecting cheques from residents and sponsors and issuing receipts.

Shilpa Rai 

This position involves maintaining and improving our FRMA website. Tasks include keeping our website up to date with information on the FMRA, including job postings. The Academics site and lecture recordings through Zoom are currently being headed by faculty.

Lynnwood: Nesma Dobol

Misercordia: Saba Riaz Malik

Radius: Sharumathy (Sharu) Kunasekaran

MacEwan: Rachel Hamilton

Westview: Temitola Awosika 

Grey Nuns/Leduc/Heritage/Shifa: Samra Azhar 

North East/Summit:  Qahir Haji 

Kaye/Justik: Cody Wales 

This role involves collecting information on any resident issues or concerns with your teaching site to bring to the attention of the Co-Chiefs. Reps may also attend the Residency Program Committee meetings the first Thursday of every month with the faculty to report any new site issues. Reps are also encouraged to organize resident-driven exam  preparation at their site during their R2 (or R1) year.

This role involves representing your fellow residents at the CFPC and is a two year term. Further details on the role are found in the attached position description. Meetings are twice a year in Mississauga (September and March), with two teleconferences in between meetings. Reps are expected to attend the monthly FMRA meetings.

This is a one year position. You will have the privilege of getting to understand the business that takes place at the college level and working with some incredible members of our profession. Duties include attending three board meetings each year, preparing a one-page ACFP feedback report and attend the monthly FMRA meetings.

PARA is our residency association and is actively involved in advocating for residents in contract negotiations and workforce planning discussions. PARA works in conjunction with the Alberta Medical Association, the Canadian Medical Association, Alberta Health Services and other partners to further education, foster teaching and provide safe and equitable conditions for residents. PARA also holds a number of social events (FREE) throughout the year. There are four PARA meetings a year (two in Calgary, two in Edmonton) and representatives are expected to attend monthly FMRA meetings.

Helps coordinate educational events about transitioning to practice including Billing and Contract Negotiation. Sits on the First Five Years in Practice (FFYP) committee within the Alberta College of Family Physicians (ACFP).

Interested in low risk obstetrics? Emergency medicine? What about sports medicine, palliative medicine or general enhancement of skills beyond the FM curriculum? The Advanced Skills committee organizes various workshops and courses for residents including ALARM (Advances in Labour and Risk Management), LEAP (Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative and End of Life Care), CASTED, and Point of Care Ultrasound (EDE).

Having nightmares of CCU call? Feeling anxious about being paged about unstable patients? The Simulation Club is dedicated to making you feel confident in acute care medical situations. They host regular simulation sessions with interested residents to cover topics like shock, coma, ACLS, trauma and more.

Ideally, the person who takes on this role will sit on the committee in their first year and then follow the academic changes that develop through the committee into their second year. This role involves attending four 1 - 1.5 hour meetings per year in September, January, March and June. This role is great for someone with an interest in academics and curriculum.

Coordinates group orders for textbooks and educational materials. Also responsible for organizing the annual UofA Family Medicine clothing order!

This group organizes our gala night to celebrate graduation! Music, dancing, dinner... let’s make it a night to remember!

Residents on this committee will be involved in organizing the Research Day in June, and promoting researching initiatives. Being on this committee is a great way to find out about the research activities going on in the Family Medicine Department. The reps meet with the Research Committee once a month (first Thursday), and a section of the meeting is dedicated to the residents. The reps are expected to distribute information regarding faculty and resident research to other residents. Reps are also expected to attend the monthly FMRA meetings.

This committee is responsible for planning our monthly social/wellness events that occur on the Tuesdays preceding Academic Day, as well as other social events that may come up during the year (i.e. CaRMS socials). Past events have included mini-golf, pub nights, and bowling to name a few. The committee is super flexible - how much you want to do is really up to you! At least one representative from the committee must attend the FMRA meetings. Also involves sitting on RWBC committee monthly with PARA.