Faculty development

LMP Leadership Funding

The department offers funding to support faculty members to attend a leadership course or conference and acquire the knowledge and tools to become excellent leaders in the field; and in turn, help us drive innovation in LMP.

This competition is open to faculty who meets the following criteria:

• appointment type is Tenure/ Part-Time Academic, Full-Time Clinical, Part-Time Clinical or Status-Only,
• at the rank of Lecturer, Assistant or Associate Professor,
• holds their primary academic appointment in LMP; and
• preference will be given to those who are active contributors to departmental activities and have matching funds from their Hospital Chief.

Call for applications is sent to eligible faculty in November.

LMP Leadership Sessions

The LMP Mentorship Committee partnered with the Joule's Physician Leadership Institute of the Canadian Medical Association to provide leadership sessions to our faculty.

These virtual leadership courses are open to all primary LMP (MD and non-MD) faculty. 

Contact

For any questions about the programs listed above, contact:

Xilonem Lopez
Administrative and Appointments Assistant
lmp.hr@utoronto.ca
416-946-0552

The Education Scholars Program (ESP) is a leadership development program for educators of health professionals.

The program's goals are to support and enable the success of health professional and health science faculty/staff in their many roles as educators. 

Participants in this faculty development program meet for class Tuesday afternoons in the Li Ka Shing building at St. Michael’s Hospital for two academic years and cover topics under each of the three program themes: 

1. Teaching Excellence 
2. Scholarship and Curriculum 
3. Education Leadership and Career Development  

Program objectives 

• Support and enable the success of health professional educators in their roles as scholarly educators, education leaders and teachers as well as, faculty developers who support their colleagues in their educational work. 
• Create a foundation for building an inter-departmental, inter and intra-professional, and inter-faculty community of practice within the program as well as facilitating their integration into the greater community of scholars in health professional education both locally and beyond. 
• Prepare current and future education leaders in the health professions and health sciences. 

Education Scholars Program brochure (PDF)

Education Scholars Program on the Centre for Faculty Development (CFD) website.

The New and Evolving Academic Leaders Certificate Program is designed to provide leadership development to academic leaders and to foster a productive, visionary and collaborative academic leader in the Academic Health Science System. 

Participants will become members of a community of leaders who have the mindsets and capabilities to successfully run their division, research, education or other academic unit and help their faculty be successful.

Specifically, they will be competent in the four practices of academic leadership:

1. intrapersonal
2. interpersonal
3. organizational
4. system

The program is designed on three four-day modules over the course of one year with coaching and web-based distance learning in between.   

Program objectives 

Participants will be able to: 

• Apply specific reflective and self-management strategies to enhance their leadership style and agility 
• Describe effective academic leadership practices and capabilities 
• Define academic success and pathways for achievement 
• Apply effective tools for interpersonal communication, engagement, negotiation and mediation with faculty members and other academic colleagues 
• Utilize Integrative Thinking™* and complexity informed techniques for solving problems unique to an academic setting - based on work developed at the Rotman School of Management 
• Describe methods and systems for enabling change in their academic units 
• Utilize economic management tools for financial decision-making 
• Design performance management strategies for supporting faculty and academic unit success 
• Develop their visioning and strategy skills for their academic unit 
• Identify and navigate the various university and health care system roles and relationships.

The program will cover

• University leadership activities or roles within the academic health science network 
• Workplace-based learning 
• Application of learning to an academic leadership project 
• Participants working on context relevant stretch goals and shared issues 
• Individual coaching 
• Leadership shadowing 
• Enabling change in complex academic health science settings. 
• Building collaborative and distributed leadership capacity 
• The development of a network of academic leaders 

Completion of the program will result in a University of Toronto certificate of added qualification - program accreditation application is in progress.

Eligibility 

The program accepts applications from individuals, both nationally and internationally, with faculty appointments in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine or the Faculty of Health Sciences who have academic leadership roles and/or responsibilities. Such leaders, with or without formal institutional roles, are engaged in the academic mission of research, education or program development. 

Their roles or responsibilities could include, but are not restricted to:

• vice-deans
• chairs
• vice-chairs
• chiefs of academic departments; research program or institute leads
• university unit heads such as: clerkship, residency, graduate program, clinical education, work placement, curriculum or centre leaders. 

Enacting leadership is essential to the program and there is a leadership project requirement that participants will need to fulfill. 

More information

New and Evolving Academic Leaders Certificate Program (NEAL) brochure (PDF)

New and Evolving Academic Leaders Certificate Program (NEAL) on the Centre for Faculty Development (CFD) website.

This accredited program is designed to assist teachers with their educational and teaching roles.

A Stepping Stones Teacher Development Certificate will be awarded after completion. 

Participants are expected to:

• attend at least 26 hours of workshops and CFD round presentations within two years. 
• accumulate an additional 14 hours of training, within one academic year, through participation in journal club. 
• review specific articles related to various aspects of teaching and learning theory from a wide array of health professional education literature pertinent to all levels of the teaching experience. 

Program objectives 

• describe several evidence-based strategies for teaching in a variety of clinical contexts 
• describe some of the theoretical basis for clinical teaching strategies 
• demonstrate newly acquired teaching skills 
• demonstrate enhanced critical appraisal skills of the health professional education literature 
• acquire a positive attitude towards implementing and initiating change in clinical teaching 
• identify the ways in which scholarship can be introduced into teaching and education activities 
• describe a strategy for implementation of their own career development plan 

Stepping Stones on the Centre for Faculty Development (CFD) website.

The Centre for Faculty Development (CFD) offers faculty workshops to assist faculty in their career development in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at St. Michael’s Hospital. 

The Centre for Teaching Support and Innovation (CTSI) provides leadership in teaching and learning at the University of Toronto and offers support for pedagogy and pedagogy-driven instructional technology for all teaching staff and graduate teaching assistants across all of the university’s campuses and divisions. 

Visit the CTSI workshops and events calendar.