Message from the Vice Dean of Medical Education
Welcome to the 2023-2024 annual report for the Office of the Vice Dean, Medical Education. This series of reports highlights selected innovations and achievements in and across the MD Program, Postgraduate Medical Education (PGME), Continuing Professional Development (CPD), and Integrated Physician Scientist Training Program (IPSTP). It also includes a message from the Associate Dean, Learner Affairs.
Informed by a robust engagement process, we launched the inaugural Medical Education Strategic Plan (2023-2025) in June 2023. Organized according to three overarching strategic priorities, our strategic plan identifies nine strategic initiatives focused on opportunities for alignment, integration or harmonization as well as corresponding strategic actions. The initiatives and actions identified in our strategic plan do not represent the full scope of the portfolio, but rather provide direction about specific steps we committed to focusing on over a two-year period.
Our plan also includes a foundational priority that is integral to its success: we will continuously monitor, report on and improve our strategy and actions. I am very pleased to say that we have made a great deal of progress towards achievement of the initiatives and actions identified in our plan. These achievements are summarized in our Year 1 Status Update. I would like to thank all those who have contributed to making our plan a reality.
In addition to the initiatives and actions identified in the Medical Education Strategic Plan, each of the units that comprise the medical education portfolio also have priorities and goals informed by and specific to their respective mandates. Selected unit-specific innovations and achievements are highlighted throughout this report. One thing that brings us together is our commitment to ensuring the best possible learning and working experience across the medical education continuum, informed by our shared Education Mission.
A priority for 2024-2025 is the expansion of our Education Mission to the Scarborough campus as part of the Scarborough Academy of Medicine and Integrated Health (SAMIH). We are committed to working to promote, advance and support alignment, integration and harmonization across the continuum of medical education, including innovative approaches to teaching and learning at all three University of Toronto campuses and within our hospital partners.
I would like to thank all members of the medical education community for showing me what is possible, and demonstrating over and over again that by working together we can achieve the kind of success that makes Temerty Medicine a recognized and progressive leader in medical education.
Patricia Houston
Interim Dean, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Vice Dean Medical Education, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Interim Vice Provost, Relations with Health Care Institutions, University of Toronto
2023-2024 Updates
Acknowledgements
Thank you to the Medical Education Annual Report Steering Committee and all those who contributed to the content and design of this year’s report – Caroline Abrahams, Monique Cheng, Christopher Chipman, Maya Collum, Trevor Cuddy, Kien Dang, Meredith Giuliani, Judy Ha, Michelle Hart, Shawn Healy, Nicola Jones, Melissa Kennedy Hynes, Marcus Law, Chelsea Matson, Andrew McLeod, Anne McLeod, Lynsey Mellon, Maureen Morris, Laura Leigh Murgaski, James Owen, Morag Paton, Angela Punnett, Emma Sanchez-Swaren, Suzan Schneeweiss, Glendon Tait, Nadia Taylor, Shibu Thomas, Paul Tonin, Branden Wesseling and Mary-Kay Whittaker.
And thank you to all members of the medical education community who contribute to the continued success of the MD Program, PGME, CPD, and IPSTP both as individual programs and as partners in the continuum of medical education.