ACFP Road Shows

Meeting You Where You're at: In-Person CPD in Your Community

About the Program

CPD for you and planned with you.

Our newest initiative, the ACFP Road Shows, is designed to bring small, in-person CPD opportunities to communities outside our usual urban centres. These sessions will be practical, relevant, and shaped by local primary care needs. With an abundance of virtual CPD available, this program will focus on creating tailored, in-person events that foster high-quality learning and connections among local primary care providers.

We plan to survey the communities we visit in advance – this survey will allow interested parties to select what topics and event times would work best for them. This information, along with a planning committee made up of local family physicians, will guide the development of three unique CPD events across the province.

This program has been certified for up to 1.25 Mainpro+® credits

Registration for ACFP Road Shows Now Open!

“The Rural Reality: Navigating Complexity in Geriatric Pain Care”
5:30 PM, April 16 | Lethbridge, AB

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Assess chronic pain in older adults with multimorbidity during a complex geriatric assessment in rural practice
  • Identify key patient-centred questions that uncover functional impact, goals of care, and red flags when assessing chronic pain in older adults
  • Select appropriate first-line pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic pain strategies that are feasible in resource limited rural settings

Locations

One of the core components of this program is to remove the physical barrier many physicians face when it comes to travel and accessibility of in-person CPD events. We plan to visit the following communities in 2026:

  • Lethbridge (April 16)
  • Hinton (June 25)
  • Bonnyville (Fall 2026)


Want to be the first to know about these upcoming events? Please reach out to us at cpd@acfp.ca

Planning Committee

Our planning committee members are volunteers that represent each of the communities we plan to visit. This limited-time volunteer opportunity is a great way to help inform the CPD you would like to attend! Created for family docs, by family docs.

Meet Our Members:

  • Dr. Megan Findlay, Hinton (Chair)
  • Dr. Julia Kuzyk, Bonnyville
  • Dr. Quratulain Qureshi, Lethbridge
Megan Findlay
Chair
Julia Kuzyk
Member-at-Large
Quratulain Qureshi
Member-at-Large

What ACFP Members Are Saying

Dr. Megan Findlay

I am a rural family doctor in Hinton, Alberta. I completed my medical school at University of Alberta and my residency in Grande Prairie. Outside of work I love to run, hike, and bake.

Why are you volunteering to serve on this committee?
I volunteered to be part of the Family Medicine Summit Committee because my practice has hugely benefited from learning provided by the conference. I think the conference provides an excellent forum for family doctors to learn and socialize with other peers.

What about the ACFP’s work do you find most valuable?

I appreciate the ACFP’s work in advocacy for family medicine, and their excellent CME sessions for busy family physicians.

Dr. Julia Kuzyk

I am a rural family physician providing diverse care. I trained at the University of Alberta, and Grande Prairie residency. I am a new mom of one beautiful girl.

Why are you volunteering to serve on this committee?

I have always been passionate of trying to give rural healthcare workers support to practice with the scarce resources we have. I think CME locally really can help build team morale, staff feel more confident, and overall improve patient care.

 

 

 

 

Dr. Quratulain Qureshi

Hi, I’m a family physician practising in Lethbridge, AB. I’ve recently moved from the UK to Canada hoping to provide good medical practice and in process impact on medical education.

Why are you volunteering to serve on this committee?
It’s an honour to be accepted to serve on Education Committee as I’ve always believed in empowering our current/future generation of doctors to be the better version of themselves as well as prepare them in this forever changing landscape of current medicine. Very happy to be of help :)

What about the ACFP’s work do you find most valuable?
I find any work carried out for the advocacy of doctors regardless of their grade/stage of training as well as providing them opportunities to help shape their career to be one of the most indispensable feature. I also value the research opportunities provided by the ACFP.