SGFP at the PLG: How Your Colleagues Are Influencing OMA Priorities

Dear SGFP Members,

Last weekend, twenty of your SGFP colleagues represented SGFP at the OMA’s annual Priority and Leadership Group (PLG) meeting. These delegates are your SGFP Board and operational team members. I want to share how your representatives shaped conversations and challenged senior leadership around important priorities for family medicine during discussions and meetings.

This year, 108 ideas were submitted for consideration. Six ideas were shortlisted for prioritization, with four of those six coming from your SGFP leaders. It is a strong reflection of the thought leadership within our Section and the extent to which family physicians are shaping the conversations that guide the OMA’s work. 

After a dynamic weekend of debate, one of the SGFP ideas advanced as one of the two selected priorities for 2026. Both ideas will now go to the OMA’s Board meeting later this month for approval before they are shared with the broader membership. We look forward to sharing more details once the ideas have been formally approved. 

You can read more about the OMA’s PLG process and how ideas move through the process on the OMA website. You can also view all of the ideas that were put forward and debated.

I want to extend my sincere thanks to the SGFP delegates who took time away from their families and practices to participate in this meeting. Your commitment to advancing the profession, and to ensuring that the voice of family medicine is heard clearly and consistently, strengthens our Section and the broader physician community.

Warm Regards,

Dr. Dave Barber, Chair, SGFP