Why does continuity of care with family doctors matter?

Family physician and adjunct faculty in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto in Ontario.

Doctoral student in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, and a recent graduate of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD.

Medical student in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.

Associate Professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, the inaugural Dr Mathias Gysler Research Chair in Patient & Family Centred Care, and a scientist in the Institute for Better Health at Trillium Health Partners.

Family physician and Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, Head of the Division of Clinical Public Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and Scientific Director of the Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation.