Maria Hubinette, MD, CCFP, MMEd, FCFP

Scholar

Dr. Maria Hubinette is a practicing family physician with special interest in youth and women’s health including working with survivors of gender-based and sexualized violence. Her clinical practice serves as a constant reminder of why we do what we do in health professions education. She is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Practice at UBC and a Scholar at CHES. Maria is currently serving as Family Medicine Undergraduate Program Director. Dr. Hubinette’s scholarly and professional activity focuses on equity and diversity, health advocacy, social accountability of the medical profession, and professional identity formation of learners. Dr. Hubinette also enjoys engaging in teaching, mentorship and supervision of scholarly projects with medical students, family medicine residents and clinical education fellows.

Outside of the office, Maria enjoys cruising the coastal waters of BC aboard her sailboat, Dengue (yes, as in the fever) and spending time with friends and family.

Research Interests

  • health advocacy
  • social accountability
  • professional identity development
  • equity, diversity and inclusion
  • systemic and structural change

Current Scholarly Activities

  • Canfield Distinguished Scholar in Patient Partnerships
  • Michael Smith Salary Support Award, equity-oriented program of research
  • Family Medicine Undergraduate Programs Director
  • Theme Lead, Health Advocacy and Social Determinants of Health, UGME
  • Canadian Medical Education Journal, Associate Editor
  • Mentorship and supervision of education scholarship projects of numerous medical undergraduate students, family medicine residents and CHES Fellows

Awards

  • Certificate of Merit, Canadian Association for Medical Education (2019)

Recent Presentations

Wisener K, Hubinette M et al. (2018). Oral presentation: Supporting Portfolio coaches through responsive Faculty Development. The Canadian Conference on Medical Education. Halifax, NS.

Kahlke R, Scott I, Van der Goes T, & Hubinette M. (2018). Poster: The “deserving patient”: Exploring student motivations for advocacy action and inaction. The Canadian Conference on Medical Education. Halifax, NS.

Hubinette M, Kahlke R, Van der Goes T, Van Enk A, & Scott I. (2018). Poster: “Advocacy Tactics”: Exploring Student Methods for Enacting Advocacy. The Canadian Conference on Medical Education. Halifax, NS.

Hubinette, M, Kahlke R, Van der Goes T, & Scott I. (2018). Workshop: Learning in Context: Workplace Learning of Health Advocacy. The International Conference on Residency Education. Halifax, NS.

Hubinette M, Van Der Goes T, Kahlke R, Clark J, & Scott I. (2018). Workshop: Health Advocacy: Exploring the levers that drive teaching and learning in your setting. Family Medicine Forum. Toronto, ON.

Hubinette M, Kahlke R, Van Der Goes T, & Scott I. (2019). How Learners In Diverse Contexts Conceptualize Health Advocacy: Implications For Practice And Education. The Canadian Conference on Medical Education. Niagara Falls, ON.

Cawse-Lucas J and Hubinette M. (2019). Welcome to the Family: Promoting Interest in Family Medicine. Society of Teachers in Family Medicine Annual Spring Meeting. Toronto, ON.

Hubinette M, van der Goes T, MacKenzie M, & Ashby J. (2019). Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: A no-nonsense approach to curriculum mapping. Family Medicine Forum. Vancouver, BC.

Hubinette M, van der Goes T, Scott I, & Kahlke R. (2019). Health Advocacy: Exploring levers that drive teaching and learning (version 2.0). Family Medicine Forum. Vancouver, BC.

Hubinette M and UGEC. (2019). Undergraduate Competencies from a Generalist Perspective: Introducing CanMEDS-FMU. Family Medicine Forum. Vancouver, BC.

Horrey K, Hubinette M, & UGEC. (2019). Engaging medical students in discussions about careers in Family Medicine. Family Medicine Forum. Vancouver, BC.

Scott I, Hubinette M, & SoT. (2019). Family First: Factors that promote a career in Family Medicine. Family Medicine Forum. Vancouver, BC.

McCracken R, Calam B, Hardie B, Van der Goes T, Hubinette M, Dutt M, Howard C, & Ratti J. (2019). Working Toward Gender Diversity and Inclusion in Medical Education. Family Medicine Forum. Vancouver, BC.

Hubinette M and Graves L. (2020). Scholarly Topic Roundtable Discussion: Medical Student Competencies from a Generalist Perspective: Introducing CanMEDS-FMU. Society of Teachers in Family Medicine Conference on Medical Student Education. Portland, Oregon.

Stasiuk S, Hubinette M, & Nimmon L. (2020). How medical students make meaning of early significant clinical experiences: The role of social networks. (Accepted as an oral presentation, published as an abstract due to COVID). The Canadian Conference on Medical Education. Vancouver, BC (virtual).

Hubinette M, MacNeil K, & Jarvis Selinger S. (2020). Key Conceptualizations of Professional Identity Formation: A Scoping Review.(Accepted as a poster presentation, published as an abstract due to COVID). The Canadian Conference on Medical Education. Vancouver, BC (virtual).

Li D, Miao I, & Hubinette M. (2020). Longitudinal examination of conditions for a successful reflective portfolio in undergraduate medical education. (Accepted as an oral presentation, published as an abstract due to COVID). The Canadian Conference on Medical Education. Vancouver, BC (virtual).

Van der Goes T, Scott I, Kahlke R, & Hubinette M. (2020). Managing Tensions in the Health Advocate Role. Family Medicine Forum. Winnipeg, MB (virtual).

Stasiuk S, Nimmon L, & Hubinette M. (2021). How medical students make meaning of early significant clinical experiences: The role of social networks. The Canadian Conference on Medical Education (virtual).

Stasiuk S, Shahram S, Buckley H, & Hubinette M. (2021). Communication Skills: Going Beyond Eye Contact. The Canadian Conference on Medical Education (virtual).

Lacasse M, Renaud J-S, Grundland B, Hubinette M, Leung, F-H, & van der Goes T. (2021). Characteristics and outcomes of family medicine horizontal vs traditional rotational curricula: A Canadian perspective. The Canadian Conference on Medical Education (virtual).

Scott I, Hubinette M, van der Goes T, Kahlke R. “Through a…Tainted Lens”: learner’s perceptions of which patients deserve advocacy. Oral Presentation. Canadian Conference on Medical Education, Calgary, April 2022

Miled N, Hubinette M.Unpacking Racism and the Legacy of Colonialism in Medical Education. Workshop. Canadian Conference on Medical Education, Calgary, April 2022

Scott I, Kahlke R, van der Goes T, Hubinette M. Deservingness: how learners determine who gets advocacy. AMEE, Lyon, France. August 2022

Kelly M, Power L, LeeA, Boudreault N, Hubinette M. The Praxis of Generalism: 6Cs demonstrating family physician generalist expertise. Family Medicine Forum, Toronto, November 2022

Kahlke R, van der Goes T, Scott I, Hubinette M. Teaching and Assessing Health Advocacy: Problems and possibilities. Family Medicine Forum, Toronto, November 2022

Recent Publications

Stasiuk S, Hubinette M, Nimmon L. The ways social networks shape reflection on early significant clinical experiences in medical school. Canadian Medical Education Journal. In Press.

Hubinette MM, LaDonna KS, Scott I, van der Goes T, Kahlke R. When I Say…Health Advocacy. Medical Education. In press.

Williams-Yuen J, Shunmugam M, Smith H, Jarvis-Selinger S, Hubinette M. COVID as a Catalyst: Medical student perspectives on professional identity formation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadian Medical Education Journal. In Press.

Price I, Hubinette M, Armstrong L, Buckley H. Coaching the coaches: Employing role modeling and coaching as a faculty development strategy. Medical Teacher. 2021. DOI: 10.1080/0142159X.2021.1929908 (CA)

Graves L, Horrey K, Hubinette M, Oandason I, Freeman R. Teaching Moment: Pandora’s Box: Creating Dialogue on Culture and Bias in the Learner-Teacher Relationship. Canadian Family Physician. 2021 Jul;67(7):544-546. doi: 10.46747/cfp.6707544.PMID: 34261717

Hubinette M, Scott I, van der Goes T, Kahlke R. Learner Conceptions of Health Advocacy: “Going Above & Beyond” or “Kind of an Expectation”. Medical Education. 2021 Aug; 55(8):933-941 (FA)

Kelly M, Wicklum S, Hubinette M, Power L. The Praxis of Generalism in Family Medicine: Six Concepts to inform teaching. Canadian Family Physician. In Press. (CA)

Liu J, Buckley H, Ho K, Hubinette M, Abdalkhani A, Holmes C, Nathoo N. A Proposed Learning Environment Framework for Virtual Care. Canadian Medical Education Journal. In press. (CA)

Holmes CL, Hubinette MM, Maclure M, Miller H, Ting D, Costello G, Reed M, Regehr G. Reflecting on what? The difficulty of noticing formative experiences in the moment. Perspect Med Educ. Published online 12Nov2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40037-018-0486-x

Jarvis Selinger S and Hubinette M. The Matrix: Moving from Principles to Pragmatics in Renewing Undergraduate Medical Curricula. Academic Medicine. 93(10):1464-1471, 2018 Oct.

Hubinette, M., Dobson, S., Scott, I. & Sherbino, J. Health advocacy: AMEE Guide No. 114. Medical Teacher 2018.

Chen, L and Hubinette M. Professional Identity Formation: A Case Study on the Role of Classroom-based Learning in Family Medicine Residency. Medical Teacher, 2017; Issue 8.

Hubinette, M., Dobson, S., Scott, I. & Sherbino, J. Health advocacy. Medical Teacher, 2016. DOI: 10.1080/0142159X.2017.1245853

Hubinette, M. M., Regehr, G., & Cristancho, S. Lessons From Rocket Science : Reframing the Concept of the Physician Health Advocate. Academic Medicine. 2016; 91(10), 1–4. http://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000001299

Hubinette, M., Dobson, S., Regehr, G. Not Just ‘For’ but ‘With’: Health Advocacy as a Partnership Process. Medical Education. 2015; 49(8), 796-804. doi:10.1111/medu.12755.

Dobson, S., Voyer, S., Hubinette, M., Regehr, G. From the clinic to the community: The activities and abilities of effective health advocates. Academic Medicine. 2015; 90(2): 214-20.

Hubinette, M., Dobson, S., Towle, A., Whitehead, C. Shifts in the Interpretation of Health Advocacy: A Textual Analysis. Medical Education. 2014; 48: 1235-43.

Hubinette, M., Dobson, S., Voyer, S., Regehr, G. ‘We’ not ‘I’: Health Advocacy is a Team Sport. Medical Education. 2014; 48: 895901.

Hubinette, M., Ajjawi, R., Dharamsi, S. Family physician preceptors’ conceptualizations of health advocacy: Implications for medical education. Academic Medicine. 2014; 89(11): 15021509.

Recent Grants (as PI or Co-I)

  • Exploring the experiences of racialized learners to understand and dismantle racist structures in our healthcare system. Michael Smith Health Research BC Health Professional-Investigator Salary Support Award. 2022-2027.
  • Bringing Patients and Society back into the social Accountability of a Medical School. Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada; CanMEDS Research and Development Grant. 2021-2022. $24,855
  • Partnering with Patients, Caregivers and Learners to Develop Virtual Clinical Educational Products. Teaching and Learning Education Fund (TLEF) – University of British Columbia. 2022-present. $46,937
  • Racial Equity in Medical Education: Exploring Sociocultural Factors that Help and Hinder Agency Among Racialized Learners. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grant (2021-2023). $67,979
  • Tips, Tricks, and Beyond: An Online Teaching Course for Community Physicians. UBC Faculty of Medicine Strategic Investment Fund (2021-2022). $61,040
  • Integrating Gender Equity and Addressing Cisnormativity. UBC Faculty of Medicine Strategic Investment Fund (2021-2022). $85,870
  • Breaking the Glass Ceiling: An Appreciative Inquiry and Action Plan for Gender Equity and Inclusivity in the UBC Faculty of Medicine. UBC Faculty of Medicine, Strategic Investment Fund (2019, 2022-2023). $35,700
  • Causes and Consequences of Moral Distress and Burnout in Medical Students—Developing an Agenda for Improvement. CAME Wooster Family Grant (2019-2020). $3,000
  • Residents’ health advocate role: Contextual learning. UBC Faculty of Medicine Distributed Medical Education Research Grant (2016-2018). $10,000
  • CanMEDS Research Development Grant, Royal College/Associated Medical Services (AMS) (2016-2018). $24,700