The seminar series is intended to be a forum where participants can deliberate, discuss, and debate a wide variety of social, political, and scientific issues that directly or indirectly influence primary care. Participants will broaden their understanding of the forces that influence one’s ability to provide quality primary health care in Ontario, Canada, and the rest of the world by participating in and synthesizing presentations on a variety of social, political and scientific issues in primary care. By the end of the course, students will be able to: Identify and describe a variety of social, scientific, and political influences on primary health care delivery in Ontario and internationally; apply the impact of social, scientific, and political influences to one’s own practice locale and to other healthcare professions in primary care; identify and evaluate emerging trends in family medicine and primary care; debate and critically question issues related to primary care, including scientific issues that arise in primary care literature; examine the history of primary care in Canada as well as the socio-political influences on the discipline’s development and reform over time; evaluate and synthesize presentations on a variety of social, political, and scientific issues in primary care.