University of Toronto Division of Endocrinology Professional Development Day 2026
May 29, 2026
Annual professional development day for the Division of Endocrinology consisting of a plenary session, presentation of the resident QI project, and presentations on key clinical, educational and practice issues for our division.
Advanced Hip Course
May 30, 2026
The Advanced Hip Course presented by University of Toronto & Mt. Sinai Hospital is an intensive, one day program designed for orthopaedic surgeons looking to expand their surgical expertise in advanced hip arthroplasty.
BPAO Mental Health CPD: Care That Connects — Practical Approaches to Mental Health in Diverse Aging Populations
May 30, 2026
The BPAO Mental Health CPD: Care That Connects — Practical Approaches to Mental Health in Diverse Aging Populations is a virtual, interdisciplinary program focused on enhancing healthcare professionals' capacity to support the mental health needs of seniors in diverse and racialized communities. The session will address key topics including behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), culturally responsive approaches to care, caregiver stress and burnout, and the unique presentation of mental health conditions in Black and racialized populations.
The program is designed as an interactive, skills-based learning experience that emphasizes practical application in clinical and community settings. Educational methods will include case-based discussions, live polling, and facilitated dialogue to promote engagement and reflective learning. A multidisciplinary panel of speakers, including physicians, social workers, and frontline care providers, will ensure diverse perspectives and relevance across practice settings, with a focus on immediately applicable strategies for participants.
ATC Education Day
June 5, 2026
The Ajmera Transplant Centre’s Annual Education Conference is a comprehensive hybrid program designed to deliver the latest updates and advancements in the care of solid-organ transplant patients.
Education Day offers a dynamic platform tailored to the needs of primary care physicians, specialists, surgeons, fellows, residents, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, and allied health professionals actively involved in the management of pre- and post-transplant patients within the community.
Key highlights include:
1. To evaluate the role of frailty in determining transplant candidacy.
2. To explore strategies for optimizing frailty before and after transplantation.
3. Optimizing multidisciplinary care across the transplant continuum, including coordination with primary care providers, and long-term management approaches aimed at improving post-transplant outcomes.
Ontario Psychiatric Association (OPA) Psychotherapy Day 2026: Managing Complex Trauma: Embracing Unknowns and Confronting Challenges
June 6, 2026
This is a day-long in-person educational program featuring 4 speakers and a panel discussion.
The theme is psychotherapeutic approaches to trauma.
Program title:
“Managing Complex Trauma: Embracing Unknowns and Confronting Challenges”
Each speaker’s talk will include Q&A, with longer discussion amongst all speakers and program participants during the panel.
Strengthening Allyship in Action: Walking Alongside in Medicine
June 12, 2026
This workshop is designed as an accessible starting point for learning, reflection, and action for those new to, or early in, their allyship journey. Through facilitated discussion and interactive activities, participants will reflect on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Call to Action #23 and the role we all play in improving environments for medical learning and access to healthcare.
Together, we will explore introductory best practices for meaningfully engaging Indigenous colleagues and communities, including thoughtful approaches to honouring key days of significance. Participants will gain practical tools for practicing allyship in clinical and educational settings, with a focus on relationship‑building grounded in respect.
This workshop is ideal if you are beginning to explore allyship in healthcare, seeking a supportive space to engage with foundational concepts in Indigenous health, or looking for practical starting points for moving towards greater awareness, accountability, and action.
Planning Inclusive Educational Events Workshop for Faculty, Residents and Clinical Fellows
July 8, 2026 - July 8, 2027
The Planning Inclusive Educational Events workshop is an opportunity to promote Temerty Faculty of Medicine’s Inclusive Educational Events Planning Guide (https://temertymedicine.utoronto.ca/inclusive-educational-events-planning-guide) and socialize inclusion considerations with faculty members, medical residents and clinical fellows working and learning in academic, clinical and research environments. By facilitating a live, interactive program with practical examples on using key concepts from the guide, the Office of Inclusion and Diversity and its collaborators aim to promote skills development among participants by enhancing the way they incorporate access, inclusion and belonging in educational event settings in order to increase event relevance, attendance, participation and feedback.
The program design is a 2-hour virtual live workshop which will provide facilitated information on inclusive event planning concepts including avoiding tokenism, selecting diverse speakers, and cultivating social safety. Participants will partake in activities to enhance and apply their knowledge of these concepts including knowledge/perspective sharing, small group exercises, scenario/vignette unpacking, and land acknowledgement development.
Certificate Program in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement 2026-2027
Sep. 8, 2026 - Jun. 2, 2027
The proposed program will teach concepts of patient safety and quality improvement using didactic and interactive sessions followed by an evaluative presentation of a project. It will cover topics such as: 1) Model for Improvement 2) Core definitions and epidemiology in patient safety 3) Approaches to measuring healthcare quality and performance 4) Methods for assessing quality and safety problems5) Unique methods in patient safety ( human factors engineering, event analysis) 6) QI methods : Run Charts and Control charts 7) QI methods in safety and quality 8) Leading change and stakeholder engagement 9) Topics of special interest to safety and quality ( communication, safety culture,teamwork, resource stewardship, health informatics, patient engagement) 10) Equity in QI
Planning Inclusive Educational Events Workshop for Interprofessional Health Students
October 1, 2026
The Planning Inclusive Educational Events workshop is an opportunity to promote Temerty Faculty of Medicine’s Inclusive Educational Events Planning Guide (https://temertymedicine.utoronto.ca/inclusive-educational-events-planning-guide) and socialize inclusion considerations with interprofessional health students (including MD, rehabilitation sciences, and graduate students) working and learning in academic, clinical and research environments. By facilitating a live, interactive program with practical examples on using key concepts from the guide, the Office of Inclusion and Diversity and its collaborators aim to promote skills development among participants by enhancing the way they incorporate access, inclusion and belonging in educational event settings in order to enhance event relevance, attendance, participation and feedback.
The program design is a 2-hour virtual live workshop which will provide facilitated information on inclusive event planning concepts including avoiding tokenism, selecting diverse speakers, and cultivating social safety. Participants will partake in activities to enhance and apply their knowledge of these concepts including knowledge/perspective sharing, small group exercises, scenario/vignette unpacking, and land acknowledgement development.
Education Scholars Program (ESP) 2025-2027 (Year 2 of 2)
Oct. 5, 2026 - Jun. 1, 2027
The overall goal of the Education Scholars Program (ESP) is to enhance participants’ capacity as education scholars. Working collaboratively to solve common challenges encountered in health professions education, participants will tackle the most pressing issues in: curriculum and program development, program evaluation, and education leadership and system change. This will be accomplished through collaborative and highly applied projects, small and large group exercises, guided observations and other practically-oriented tasks that promote application of theoretical concepts to participants’ own education contexts. Additionally, individual coaching sessions scheduled throughout the program will support participants in their growth as education scholars and leaders. The program is deliberately designed to build connection and community within and beyond the program.
The ESP consists of 5 units. Each unit contains the following:
- five 3-day module (9:00 am – 4:00 pm)
- two or three 3-hour sessions (1:00-4:00 pm) approximately one month apart
- one 1:1 coaching session (self-scheduled)
CPD Foundations: Developing and Implementing Programs with Impact 2026-2027
Oct. 6, 2026 - Jun. 8, 2027
Design, develop, and implement impactful learning activities for health professionals. Create effective CPD that facilitates practice change.
This program is an exciting new initiative designed for professionals working within the field of CPD. It provides fundamental theory and skill training needed to ensure effectiveness and success of continuing professional development (CPD) activities. Its focus is on practical issues commonly experienced in the design, development and implementation of continuing health education (CHE). As a webinar-based program, participants will have an opportunity to learn from leading experts in the field and to share their experiences with an international audience of learners.
Leadership Communication 2026
October 7 - December 9, 2026
Elevate your professional voice and advance your leadership skills with evidence-based frameworks and proven techniques.
Strong communication skills are essential for every successful leader to hone, especially in healthcare. By mastering the art and science of communication, we can motivate our teams through uncertainty, secure resources to drive change, and gather support for improved policies and processes. These skills can be developed and practiced.
Leadership Communication offers comprehensive training in professional communication strategies for emerging and established leaders in medicine, healthcare, and health professions education. Over the course of 10 sessions, this interactive program will equip you with the tools to communicate and lead with purpose.
Learn how to navigate difficult conversations, deliver impactful presentations, articulate your professional identity, and network strategically. Uncover what makes storytelling such a powerful communication tool that you can harness and implement across all professional scenarios.
This is a new kind of leadership communication training. Master core communication skills that can propel you into the next phase of your professional leadership journey.
Organ Imaging Review
October 23-24, 2026
Diagnostic imaging is integral to contemporary clinical practice, with interpretive accuracy contingent upon the recognition of nuanced radiologic findings and avoidance of common diagnostic errors. This case -focussed conference will illustrate key best imaging practices through structured pattern recognition and effective use of modality-specific strengths, while highlighting common sources of error and strategies for their mitigation. Emphasis will be placed on practical approaches to enhance diagnostic accuracy and minimize interpretive errors to support optimal patient care..
The 6th Annual Canadian Children, Youth and Communities (CCYC) Health In | Equity Conference
October 28-29, 2026
The Canadian Children, Youth and Communities (CCYC) In | Equity Conference is an interdisciplinary conference designed to bring together pediatric health and allied health care professionals to address health care inequities from birth to adolescence using a family-centred approach.
Paediatric Dermatology Update
November 14, 2026
Advance paediatric dermatology—partner with us through sponsorship and help further the knowledge in care for children and adolescents. Attendees will learn about the latest clinical developments to better diagnose and treat common and rare childhood skin conditions in your community-based practice at this synthesized, one-day conference.
Covering the breadth of paediatric dermatology, expert speakers will share new guidelines and therapies for skin disorders of childhood and adolescence. Topics will include common skin conditions such as acne and atopic dermatitis; under-serviced populations in dermatology; novel therapeutics and more.
Attendees will learn how to assess and treat skin conditions encountered in clinic and determine when to refer patients for follow-up treatment.
65th Annual Walter Wright Symposium
December 4-5, 2026
The Wright Symposium is the flagship annual CME event for the Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences at the University of Toronto. This year the meeting will take place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North Building on December 4-5, 2026 in Toronto.
This year’s theme is Essentials of Cornea, Anterior Segment & Refractive Surgery. The program will cover a variety of topics for comprehensive community ophthalmologists, optometrists, as well as academic sub-specialists.
Canadian Movement Disorders Society (CMDS) Congress 2026
December 4-5, 2026
The 2026 Canadian Movement Disorders Society (CMDS) Congress is where our community convenes to shape the future of care, research, and collaboration.
This national meeting brings clinicians, scientists, allied health professionals, and trainees together to engage with the latest clinical advances and research changing the landscape of movement disorders care and treatment in Canada. Programming will highlight emergent therapies and clinical trials, updates in imaging protocols, new technologies, strategies for improving access to care, and much more.
Canadian Breast Cancer Symposium
May 5-7, 2027
10th International Congress on Bone Conduction Hearing and Related Technologies
October 13-16, 2027
Clinical and research experts from around the world will share advances in osseointegration, bone conduction, and emergent technologies that have the potential to improve the lives of patients with hearing loss.
We welcome participation from audiologists, otolaryngologists, hearing scientists, biomedical engineers, and industry partners who are interested in learning about new research outcomes and the development of new medical devices. Join us for 4 days of cutting-edge insights transforming the field of bone conduction hearing at this milestone meeting.