Dr. Kinzie is an academic family physician and associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University. She practices at Stonechurch Family Health Centre where she provides comprehensive care for a diverse patient population, in an interprofessional team-based model of care. Since 2022, Sarah has held the role of Associate Chair, Education, providing strategic visioning and oversight across the continuum of undergraduate and postgraduate education as well as faculty development for her department.
Sarah’s primary academic focus lies in postgraduate medical education. Over the years she has led numerous curriculum innovations, oriented toward equipping residents effectively for sustainable, generalist practice. Other academic interests include relationship-centered care and teaching, supportive learning and remediation strategies, accessibility and inclusion in medical education, and professional identity development. From 2015-2023, Sarah served as McMaster’s FM Postgraduate Program Director, overseeing the training of over 200 family medicine residents distributed across 12 sites. Sarah remains involved in McMaster PGME as Co-Chair of the Positive Learning Environment Committee, and Chair of the Postgraduate Medicine Accommodations Panel.
Sarah has been actively engaged in the area of selection for a number of years, leading local development and implementation of updated selection tools and processes oriented toward increasing standardization, fairness, transparency, and equity. An active member of the Family Medicine Program Directors Selection Working Group since 2019, Sarah contributed to national recommendations which have been endorsed for family medicine residency selection in Canada and is a key partner in two subsequent and ongoing initiatives – the Family Medicine Structured Reference Form and FM Professional Choices (FMProC), a FM-specific situational judgment test, introduced for the 2022 admissions cycle and now utilized by all FM programs across Canada.
A member of the CaRMS Board of Directors since 2021, Sarah took on the role of Treasurer in 2023. As part of that role, Sarah currently serves as Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, and member of the Board Executive Committee.
