Maria Hubinette, MD, CCFP, MMEd, FCFP
Scholar
Dr. Maria Hubinette is a practicing family physician with a 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 and has held a wide variety of leadership roles in education and equity spaces throughout her career as an educator and researcher. 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 and social justice
- professional identity development
- equity, diversity and inclusion and anti-oppression
- systemic and structural change
Current Scholarly Activities
- Michael Smith Salary Support Award: equity-oriented program of research
- Canfield Distinguished Scholar in Public and Patient Partnerships in Education: focus on public and patient engagement in education
- Innovative program and curriculum development
- 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)
- UBC Killam Teaching Prize (2022-2023)
- Michael Smith Health Research BC Health Professional Investigator (July 2022-present)
- Canfield Distinguished Scholar in Patient Partnerships (April 2023-present)
Recent Presentations (last 5 years)
Hubinette M, McCracken R, Cooper D, Birnie S, Price D (2025). Medical Education: Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg for System-Level Primary Care Solutions. International Congress on Academic Medicine, Halifax.
Towle A, Godolphin W, Hubinette M, Kline C, Jackson M, Descoteaux A, Wong C, Balounaick-Arowas V, Karazivan P (2025). Beyond recruitment: orientation and support when partnering with diverse patients, families and persons with lived experience in health professional education. International Congress on Academic Medicine, Halifax.
Jackson M, Towle A, Godolphin W, Hubinette M, Kline C; Descoteaux A, Wong C, Balounaick-Arowas V, Karazivan P (2025). Patient engagement in health professional education: towards the creation of a national network. International Congress on Academic Medicine, Halifax.
Scott I, Hubinette M, van der Goes T, Kahlke R (2024). Through a Tainted Lens: A Qualitative Study of Medical Learners’ Thinking About Patient ‘Deservingness’ of Health Advocacy (Poster). International Congress in Academic Medicine, Vancouver, BC.
Huang A, Yee A, Parsa B, Canfield C, Hubinette M (2024). Teaching Learners to Humanize Virtual Care. International Congress in Academic Medicine, Vancouver, BC.
Lurie R. Peebles E, Hubinette M (2024). Pediatric residents’ assessment of their postgraduate training on the social and structural determinants of obesity (Poster). International Congress in Academic Medicine, Vancouver, BC.
Hubinette M, Wyatt T, Ellaway R (2024). Advocacy and Resistance: Faces of the same coin? (Oral). International Congress in Academic Medicine, Vancouver, BC.
Towle A, Descoteaux A, Lauscher D, Jackson M, Hubinette M (2024). Advancing partnership with patients, families and persons with lived experience in medical education. International Congress in Academic Medicine, Vancouver, BC.
Olarewaju G, Shipeolu B, Fuad A, Osei-Yeboah C, Wanjiru J, James L, Nixon S, Hubinette M (2023). Blackness in Medical Education: A Qualitative Inquiry. International Congress in Academic Medicine Quebec City, Quebec.
Kelly M, Power L, LeeA, Boudreault N, Hubinette M (2022). The Praxis of Generalism: 6Cs demonstrating family physician generalist expertise. Family Medicine Forum, Toronto, ON.
Kahlke R, van der Goes T, Scott I, Hubinette M(2022). Teaching and Assessing Health Advocacy: Problems and possibilities. Family Medicine Forum, Toronto, ON.
Scott I, Kahlke R, van der Goes T, Hubinette M (2022). Deservingness: how learners determine who gets advocacy. AMEE, Lyon, France.
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 (2022). “Through a…Tainted Lens”: learner’s perceptions of which patients deserve advocacy. Oral Presentation. Canadian Conference on Medical Education, Calgary, AB.
Miled N, Hubinette M (2022). Unpacking Racism and the Legacy of Colonialism in Medical Education. Workshop. Canadian Conference on Medical Education, Calgary, AB.
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).
Van der Goes T, Scott I, Kahlke R, & Hubinette M (2020). Managing Tensions in the Health Advocate Role. Family Medicine Forum. Winnipeg, MB (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).
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).
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.
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, 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.
Recent Publications (last 5 years)
McCracken RK, Price D, Cooper D, Hubinette M. New Depths for Undergraduate Medical Education Curriculum and Going Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg for Primary Care Solutions. Canadian Family Physician, 2025. In press.
Hubinette M, Wyatt TR and Ellaway R. Refracting the concept of physician advocacy using the prism of professional resistance. MedEdPublish. 2024;14:210.
Scott I, Hubinette M, van der Goes T, Kahlke R. Through a Tainted Lens: A Qualitatve Study of Medical Learners’ Thinking About Patient ‘Deservingness’ of Health Advocacy. Perspectives on Medical Education. 2024; 13(1): 151–159. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/pme.1314
Kelly M, Power L, Lee A, Boudreault N, Ali M, Hubinette M. The tip of the iceberg: Generalism in undergraduate medical education, a systems thinking analysis. Med Educ. 2024 Jun 15. doi: 10.1111/medu.15463. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38877994.
Lowik AJ, Parkyn J, Wiesenthal E, Hubinette M, & Wiedmeyer M. A Curricular Audit Method: Addressing the Erasure of Intersex, Trans and Two-Spirit People and the Imprecise Use of Gender and Sex Concepts in Undergraduate Medical Education. Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 2023. DOI: 10.1080/10401334.2023.2226651
Kahlke R, Scott I, van der Goes T, Hubinette M. Health Advocacy Among Medical Learners: Unpacking Contextual Barriers and Affordances. Medical Education. 2022.
LaDonna K, Kahlke R, Scott I, van der Goes T, Hubinette M. Grappling with key questions about assessment of the Health Advocate role. Canadian Medical Education Journal. 2022.
Stasiuk S, Hubinette M, Nimmon L. The ways social networks shape reflection on early significant clinical experiences in medical school. Canadian Medical Education Journal. 2022, 13(5): 28-38. (CA)
Hubinette MM, LaDonna KS, Scott I, van der Goes T, Kahlke R. When I Say…Health Advocacy. Medical Education.2022 Apr, 56(4): 362-4.
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. 2022, 13(3): 13-21. (SA)
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. 2021 Oct. Vol 67:786-88 (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. 2021,12(6): 28-34. (CA)
Recent Grants (as PI or Co-I)(last 5 years)
- BC Climate Health and Knowledge Community (BC CHKC) Faculty of Medicine Strategic Investment Fund. $137550 (2024-2027)
- Layered Learning: Building critical community capacity for teaching medical students UBC Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) $49, 934 (2024-2025)
- The promotions process as an act of power: An institutional ethnography of faculties of medicine in Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Development Grant, Insight and Connection (C). $199, 8702023-2026
- 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