Keywords: Leadership

Tri-Divisional Faculty Development Day “Stronger Together: Advancing Practice, Knowledge, and Community in Emergency Medicine”

The inaugural Tri-Divisional Faculty Development Day is a collaborative continuing professional development (CPD) event bringing together faculty from the Departments of Family & Community Medicine, Medicine, and Pediatrics. Representing emergency departments across the Greater Toronto Area, this event is designed to strengthen connections, foster collaboration, and advance both clinical and educational practices within the emergency medicine (EM) community.

The morning will include an interactive ice-breaker, a keynote presentation, and a moderated panel discussion exploring the evolution of emergency medicine and what it means to build a meaningful, sustainable career beyond the shift. Participants will be able to submit questions in advance and engage with panelists during the session.

In the afternoon, faculty will take part in two of four targeted breakout workshops, each focused on a key area of professional development:

1. Education and Teaching Practice

2. Wellness and Keeping the Spark Alive

3. Scholarly and Academic Practice

4. Coaching and Leadership Practice

These sessions will be interactive, practical, and peer-driven, offering tools, shared experiences, and strategies tailored to diverse interests and career stages.

The goal of this CPD activity is to support professional growth, foster community, and help faculty find renewed purpose and connection in their work across academic and clinical emergency medicine.

2025 Immigrant and Refugee Mental Health Project Leadership Course

This course is for leaders who are committed to understanding immigrant and refugee mental health and who lead staff working with immigrants and refugees in Canada. This includes organizations in the health, settlement, social service sectors. The leadership course will improve leader’s knowledge about the support required for immigrants and refugees. It is designed to help leaders understand the mental health needs of immigrants and refugees in order to develop appropriate policies, increase their knowledge on what is required to create a supportive environment for staff so they can promote the mental health of immigrants and refugees and introduce organizational strategies that support and improve the mental health of immigrants and refugees.

Certificate in Academic Family Medicine

​​The Certificate in Academic Family Medicine is designed to address the growing need for skilled educators and leaders in family medicine. The certificate is comprised of 3 courses that are established in our graduate studies programming at DFCM and Dalla Lana School of Public Health. The courses will help learners to expand family medicine expertise from a systems lens, build skills in teaching and learning in the health professions, and develop skills in a preferred scholarship domain, all of which highlight key components of academic family medicine as a discipline.

The target audience is family physicians.

The certificate goals include:

– Developing an evidence-based approach to teaching and learning.
– Promoting innovation and scholarship in primary care
– Growing Family Medicine leadership

The certificate requirements include:

1. Foundational coursework in Family Medicine: Social, Political, and Scientific Issues in Family Medicine Course
2. Foundational coursework in Teaching and Education: Interprofessional Applied Practical Teaching and Learning in the Health Professions (INTAPT) Course
3. Scholarship selective:
– Appraising and Applying Evidence to Assist Clinical Decision-Making
OR
– Research Issues in Family Medicine/Primary Care
OR
– Leading Improvement in the Quality of Health Care for Community Populations
4. Capstone Project

Duration: The program is completed in 12-18 months.​

New and Evolving Academic Leaders (NEAL) Program 2025-2026

The NEAL Program is a one-year advanced leadership development program offered by the Centre for Faculty Development (CFD). In the NEAL program, the group builds a learning community through three intensive one-week modules over the year, themed as Foundations, Influence and Adaptation. In these modules, interdisciplinary faculty share resources and build capacity for reflective and relational practice, system thinking, influence and impact, and leading from adaptive purpose. Between modules, participants deepen their learning with coaching, peer connections, diverse assignments and leading a capstone project through engaging others. The program is intentionally shaped to bring together a diverse set of participant leaders to consider how we all need to work collaboratively in shaping and shifting our broader system for positive health outcomes. Learners may have a formal role as a leader, or may be an influencer or change agent with a meaningful purpose. NEAL is a Canadian Society of Physician Leaders-approved leadership CPD activity required as part of the Academic Route for the Canadian Certified Physician Executive (CCPE) designation.

Module 1:
Part A- Mon Sept 29, 2025 – Wed Oct 1, 2025
Part B- Thurs Oct 23, 2025 – Fri Oct 24, 2025
Module 2:
Mon Jan 26, 2026 – Thurs Jan 29, 2026
Module 3:
Part A- Mon April 27, – Wed April 29, 2026
Part B- Thurs May 14 – Fri May 15, 2026

Dalla Lana Fellowship in Journalism and Health Impact

The Dalla Lana Fellowship in Journalism and Health Impact and its antecedents at U of T have been providing mentored journalism training lasting one academic year, to medical residents and physicians since 2013. Journalism training strengthens physicians’ advocacy skills, deepens their clinical and interprofessional communications skills and empowers them with new tools for knowledge translation. The seven-month program teaches journalism skills to physicians and mentors them closely as they report on their own fields for medical and mainstream media partners, including: The British Medical Journal, CMAJ, Nature Medicine, CBC, The Toronto Star, The Canadian Press, Healthy Debate and Think Global Health (a publication of the Council of Foreign Relations in New York). The program is taught through a combination of weekly meetings with mentors, skills classes taught two-days a month, and ongoing reporting that physicians undertake on their own schedule.

The program is based on four pedagogical principles:

1. We emphasize high-contact, clinical teaching by mentoring physicians longitudinally for seven months as they practice journalism for leading media industry partners.

2. Our mentored practice is learner-led. We teach physicians how to generate media and public interest in ideas they themselves propose. These are the core skills of system-level advocacy.

3. Alongside mentorship, practitioners teach physicians a supporting curriculum of journalism skills including investigative journalism, interviewing, audio reporting, presentation and clear writing.

4. To help physicians integrate these skills into their practice after completion, we support alumni through monthly teaching calls.

Leadership Communication – Winter 2026

Advanced CPD Leadership Development: Leading and Influencing Change in CPD 2025-2026