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)
- Addressing Anti-Black Racism at Temerty Medicine - Findings Report (document)
- Allyship and Inclusion at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine (webpage)
- Creating Spaces: Latin X & Caribbean Community (webpage)
- 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
Equity in healthcare and medical education
- Academic Medicine - “Being on Both Sides”: Canadian Medical Students’ Experiences With Disability, the Hidden Curriculum, and Professional Identity Construction (PDF document)
- American Journal of Public Health - Race/Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Characteristics, Coethnic Social Ties, and Health: Evidence From the National Jewish Population Survey (PDF document)
- Arch Dis Child - Muslim patients and health disparities in the UK and the US (PDF document)
- BMC Medical Education - “What kind of support do I need to be successful as an ethnic minority medical student?” A qualitative study (PDF document)
- CBC News: The National - Remembering the Komagata Maru (video)
- Centre for Wise Practices in Indigenous Health (reports)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Health Equity for People with Disabilities (web resources)
- Historia Canada - Africville: The Black community bulldozed by the city of Halifax (video)
- Institute for Social Policy and Understanding - Black Muslim Experiences (web resources)
- JAMA Network Open - Burnout and Perception of Medical School Learning Environments Among Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Medical Students (PDF document)
- Journal of Research on Adolescence - Research on Adolescent Sexual Orientation: Development, Health Disparities, Stigma, and Resilience (PDF document)
- Kaiser Family Foundation - Key Facts on Health and Health Care by Race and Ethnicity (web resources)
- Rai, Nanky - Uprooting Medical Violence: Building an Integrated Anti-Oppression Framework for Primary Health Care (journal article)
- Rapid Response Service - Barriers to accessing health care among
transgender individuals (PDF document) - Student BMJ - Resisting zulum: Tej Pal Singh is a Sikh medical student. He describes the impact of his faith on his experience of medical school (PDF document)
- Sunshine Behavioral Health - Mental Health Issues Facing the Black Community (webpage)
- The New England Journal of Medicine - Persons of Nonbinary Gender — Awareness, Visibility, and Health Disparities (PDF document)
- TAHSN - Introduction to Anti-Black Racism eLearning Module (web resources)
- Transgender Health - Experiences of Transgender and Gender Nonbinary Medical Students and Physicians (PDF document)
- U of T News - 'We need to ensure a cultural shift': U of T's Onye Nnorom on why Canada needs more Black physicians (web article)
- Vancouver Sun - Canadian Apartheid: Chinese Head Tax and racism's legacy (video)
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)
- Dr. Umberin Najeeb - Ramadan 2022: What to Know (infographic)
- Yaqeen Institute - What is Islamophobia | Animation (video)
U of T resources and reports
- Your Journey - A Career Guide for Trans and Nonbinary Students (article)
- 2022 Anti-Asian Racism Alliance Forum Recommendation Draft Report(article)
- Answering the Call Wecheehetowin - Final Report of the Steering Committee for the University of Toronto Response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2017) (report)
- Muslim Student Experiences: Insights for Higher Education (2021) (report)
- Report of the U of T Anti-Black Racism Task Force (2021) (report)
- Report of the U of T Anti-Semitism Working Group (2022) (report)
- Scarborough Charter on Anti-Black Racism and Black Inclusion in Canadian Higher Education (2021) (report)
Overview of equity offices
There are many offices across the Faculty and the U of T that are committed to advancing belonging and justice for all community members.
