About AFMC

Mission Statement, Values and Strategic Goals

Mission Statement

AFMC is the academic partnership of Canada’s faculties of medicine. Through our collective leadership, expertise and advocacy, we will achieve excellence in education, research and care for the health of all Canadians.

Values

Excellence

To achieve excellence in all its endeavours, AFMC will apply innovation, ingenuity, creativity, inquiry, discovery, and continuous quality improvement.

Inclusivity

AFMC embraces differences amongst people and respectfully creates value from diversity of ideas, culture and language.

Collaboration

For AFMC, collaboration is both a process and outcome that engages different perspectives and involves partnerships between organizations, professions and individuals.

Strategic Goals

To support Canadian faculties of medicine and their faculty members, staff and learners.
To be the leading national advocate and knowledge resource for academic medicine.
To lead collaborative initiatives that achieve excellence and innovation in academic medicine.
To integrate academic medicine into the health system, with the goal of improving the health of all.