Luc Côté

Veteran professor and researcher Luc Côté is a leader in health science education training and research with a reputation for crafting interprofessional collaboration. His teaching and qualitative research expertise has made him a reference for his peers throughout the French-speaking world.

Training the future

Luc Côté is much sought after in the Faculty of Medicine as a mentor who, throughout his career, has been involved in clinical supervision of family medicine residents at Saint-François d’Assise Hospital. He has directed and evaluated numerous students at the graduate level. He has also supervised many residents’ medical education research in a wide range of specialties, including internal medicine, family medicine and psychiatry.

Luc Côté has been a driving force in teacher training at the Department of Family and Emergency Medicine, designing and delivering more than 200 workshops at home and abroad. He is the founder and director of the Faculty of Medicine’s Centre for the Development of Pedagogy and Professional Development, which still offers a range of programs to all faculty members for improving their teaching practices.

His expertise in health science education is regularly solicited. He has been brought in to advise faculty committees in Université Laval’s Faculties of Medicine, Pharmacy and Nursing. He worked on the renewed undergraduate curriculum in medicine. Luc Côté has also served on various scientific committees to plan study sessions, seminars, and conferences locally and elsewhere.

He has been and continues to receive regular invitations from other Québec universities and professional organizations to lecture and consult as well as from faculties of medicine in Europe and Africa.

Dr. Côté helped establish a provincial mentoring network bringing together young and more experienced family physicians. He continues to act as an advisor for various professional bodies to help members struggling with professional performance.

Enriching knowledge and understanding

Luc Côté has been a prolific producer of oral and written presentations and his work has appeared regularly in international health sciences education journals. He has written chapters in many books. He has also been a referee and reviewer for various scientific journals.

He has steered many research projects, working closely with collaborators from a wide range of fields. He has regularly received grants in a field where funding can be scarce.

As part of his continued quest for excellence, Professor Côté completed a doctorate in education at Université de Montréal to investigate educational practices in the field of health. He has always pursued professional development and has taken part in various intensive programs, including a postdoctoral fellowship in qualitative research methods at the University of Illinois Chicago.

His outstanding contributions have brought him internal and national recognition in various forms. He received the 2005 Prescriber Award from the journal Prescrire as co-author of the book La communication professionnelle en santé. He received a Certificate of Merit Award from the Canadian Association for Medical Education in 2006 and the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada Award for Outstanding Contribution to Faculty Development in Canada in 2008. In 2011 the College of Family Physicians of Canada selected research conducted by residents under his co-supervision for the Nadine St-Pierre Award.

In 2012 Université Laval selected him for the Career in Teaching Award. In 2013 he received the Ambassador Award from the Department of Family and Emergency Medicine in recognition of career achievements.