Programs, Resources & Organizations
Please find a non-exhaustive list of materials that may assist in education around EDIIA. If you have an item you think would be good to include on this list, please email medicine.oid@utoronto.ca.
CFD Resource Hub
This Centre for Faculty Development database contains resources related to many topics of interest in health professions education. It is accessible to all community members, and is developed in collaboration across the University of Toronto and TAHSN.
Programs
Mentorship
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Diversity Mentorship Program
The program connects 1st and 2nd year medical students from equity seeking groups to faculty physician mentors who are able to support and assist them in their educational and professional growth and development. -
Summer Mentorship Program
SMP gives high school students of Indigenous or African ancestry a chance to explore health sciences. -
Med Youth Summer Program
Med YSP offers high school students an exclusive glimpse into the world of medicine and medical research. -
Zka'an Ni-Bmiwdoowin Gchi-Kinoomaadwinan "Building the Fire, Walking with Medicine"
This two-week program aims to engage and expose Indigenous youth (grades 9 & 10) to healthcare career opportunities at younger ages to change the future of Indigenous healthcare representation, approaches, and leadership.
Resources
Temerty Medicine resources and reports
- Addressing Anti-Black Racism at Temerty Medicine Accountability Report (document)
- EDI Action Plan: Final Report from the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Plan Working Group (document)
- Guidelines for Excellence Through Equity - Appointments of Faculty and Academic Administrators (document)
- Guidelines for Inclusivity (document)
- U of T Department of Medicine - Gender Equity Guidelines for Department of Medicine Search Committees (document)
- U of T Department of Medicine - Recruitment of Faculty Members to the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto (document)
- U of T Postgraduate Medical Education - Best Practices in the Applications and Selection (document)
Department equity pages
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
- Biochemistry
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering
- Family and Community Medicine
- Immunology
- Medical Biophysics
- Institute of Medical Science
- Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
- Medicine
- Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Otolaryngology
- Paediatrics
- Physiology
- Psychiatry
- Radiation Oncology
- Rehabilitation Sciences Institute
- Surgery
Mental wellness
- CAMH - Patient and Family Engagement at CAMH (info webpage)
- CAMH - Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (info webpage)
- Canadian Mental Health Association (organization)
- Connex Ontario (direct support)
- Director of Faculty Wellness
- Hope For Wellness Helpline (direct support)
- Sunnybrook - Coping Card (document)
- Temerty Medicine - Wellness Resources for Faculty (info webpage)
- Temerty Medicine - Wellness Resource for Students (info webpage)
- Temerty Medicine - Office of Learner Affairs (organization)
- Temerty Medicine - GLSE Embedded Counselors
- U of T - Employee & Family Assistance Program (EFAP) (direct support)
- U of T Division of People Strategy, Equity & Culture (staff) (info webpage)
- U of T - NAVI (interactive tool)
Microaggressions
- Stanford Medicine - Microaggressions in medical training: Understanding, and addressing, the problem (article)
- Georgetown University School of Medicine - Stop, Talk, Roll (webpage)
- Duquesne University Center for Teaching Excellence - Pedagogy and Micro-Resistance: A Strategy for the College Classroom (article)
- University of California Santa Cruz - Tool: Interrupting Microaggressions (document)
Principles of EDI
- AACU - Making Excellence Inclusive (webpage)
- The FASEB Journal - NIH's scientific approach to inclusive excellence (article)
- Feminist Research Center, Aalborg University - Power, Intersectionality and the Politics of Belonging (article)
- Fitchburg State University - Systemic Racism: Healthcare & Medicine (webpage)
- Journal of the National Medical Association - Diversity and Professional Excellence (article)
- The Journal of Infectious Diseases - Principles of Inclusion, Diversity, Access, and Equity (article)
- National Academy of Sciences - The Right Thing to Do, The Smart Thing to Do: Enhancing Diversity in Health Professions (document)
- National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada - Strengthening Research Excellence through Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (PPT)
Search committees, recruitment and selection
- AAMC - Building Institutional Capacity for Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Medicine (article)
- AMA Journal of Ethics - Achieving Diversity and Its Benefits in Clinical Research (article)
- Canada Research Chairs - Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Best Practices for Recruitment, Hiring and Retention (document)
- Centre for Health Equity, Diversty and Inclusion - Search Committee Training Modules (workshop materials)
- Chronicle of Higher Education - How Search Committees Can See Bias in Themselves (article)
- Harvard University - Recruiting for Diversity (document)
- Ontario Human Rights Commission - Interviewing and making hiring decisions (document)
- Temerty Medicine Guidelines for Excellence Through Equity - Appointments of Faculty and Academic Administrators (document)
- U of T Department of Medicine - Gender Equity Guidelines for Department of Medicine Search Committees (document)
- U of T Department of Medicine - Recruitment of Faculty Members to the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto (document)
- U of T Office of the Vice-Provost, Faculty and Academic Life - Strategies for Recruiting an Excellent & Diverse Faculty Complement (document)
- U of T Postgraduate Medical Education - Best Practices in the Applications and Selection (document)
- University of Connecticut - Achieving Inclusive Excellence (article)
- USDN - Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Recruitment, Hiring and Retention (document)
Unconscious bias
- AAMC - Diversity 3.0 Learning Series (webinars)
- AAMC - Exploring Unconscious Bias in Academic Medicine - AAMC (video)
- AAMC - Understanding unconscious bias in the health professions and how to mitigate it (webinar)
- AAMC - Unconscious Bias Resources for Health Professionals (workshop materials)
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research - Bias in Peer Review (module)
- Centre for Health Equity, Diversty and Inclusion - Implicit Bias in the Clinical Setting and Learning Environment (module)
- EdX - Unconscious Bias: From Awareness to Action (module)
- enei - What is Unconscious Bias? (video)
- Harvard University - Project Implicit (interactive tool)
- National Institute of Health - Unconscious (Implicit) Bias and Health Disparities: Where Do We Go From Here? (article)
- Social and Personality Psychology Compass (Volume 7, Issue 5) - Reducing Implicit Prejudice (article)
- University of British Columbia - Unconscious Bias: Compilation of Studies (article)
- U of T Office of the Vice-Provost, Faculty and Academic Life – Unconscious Bias Education (workshop materials)
Other resources
- Berkeley Hillel - Antisemitism Education (video)
- GainPeace - What is Ramadan? (video)
- Medium - Understanding Intersectionality (article)
- NCIB - Measuring Diversity and Inclusion in Academic Medicine: The Diversity Engagement Survey (DES) (article)
- Prayer Spaces on Campus (webpage)
- Sunshine Behavioral Health - Mental Health Issues Facing the Black Community (webpage)
- Dr. Umberin Najeeb - Ramadan 2022: What to Know (infographic)