VITALS
Vitals are key performance metrics for the Temerty Faculty of Medicine. They allow us to track aspects of our research and education activity relative to our Academic Strategic Plan, to our year-over-year performance, and to our peer institutions in Canada and around the world. Vitals are one way we measure our impact at Temerty Medicine.
Rankings
Clinical Medicine (or related fields) Subject Rankings 2019-23
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| Ranking | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Taiwan University | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| U.S. News & World Report | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Times Higher Ed | 13 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 7 |
| QS World University | 11 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 13 |
| Shanghai | 5 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
Contributions to Physician Supply and Distribution in 2022
The Temerty Faculty of Medicine is the single largest contributor of physicians in Canada, representing 17.4% of all newly trained Canadian physicians in 2022. (CAPER 2023). According to the Canadian PostMD Education Registry:
U of T Contributed
Where do our PhD graduates go?
The 10,000 PhDs Project, which was an initiative of the School of Graduate Studies, used Internet searches of open-access data sources such as official university and company websites to determine the current and/or first (2016) employment status of the 10,886 PhDs who graduated from U of T between 2000 and 2015 in all disciplines.
How We Innovate
Over the last five years (FY 2018 — FY 2022)
Research
Temerty Medicine, including its researchers at TAHSN-affiliated institutes, received approximately $955M in research funding in 2021-22. Collectively, Temerty Medicine receives 20 per cent of all CIHR Investigator-Initiated Research Project funding and Foundation Grants awarded in Canada. U of T Medicine has continued to diversify and seek funding from other sources, including not-for-profit ($390M in 2021-22) and industry ($135M in 2021-22).
Research Funding Sources (2017-18 to 2021-22)
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| Sector | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Private | 104 | 113 | 140 | 123 | 134 |
| Gov't & Other | 134 | 186 | 159 | 147 | 173 |
| Non-Profit | 346 | 362 | 389 | 345 | 390 |
| Tri-Agency | 205 | 225 | 233 | 289 | 255 |
Articles in Top Journals 2022
The 1% most-cited journals as defined by SNIP (Source-Normalized Impact per Paper). SNIP is a field-normalized journal metric, meaning that this metric can be used to compare the average impact of publications from journals in different disciplines.
Source: Scopus
Canada
World
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| Harvard | U of T | UC London | Johns Hopkins | UPennsylvania |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1101 | 409 | 405 | 380 | 361 |
International Collaborations 2022
In 2022, Temerty Medicine researchers participated in collaborations producing
People
Alumni and Donors (FY 2022-23)
The Temerty Faculty of Medicine benefits from the generous financial support of alumni and donors. These funds help drive programs and research, as well as faculty and student support.
Enrolment Numbers 2022-23
U of T is home to one of the largest MD Programs by enrolment in Canada and the largest in Ontario. U of T also has the most post-MD trainees in Canada and is a leading provider of medical continuing professional development.
Undergraduate Learners: 1,568
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| MD | MD/PhD | Physician Assistant Program | Medical Radiation Sciences |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1085 | 67 | 80 | 341 |
Postgraduate Medical Education: 4,414
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| Fellows | Residents |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2389 |
Graduate Learners: 3,087
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| Professional Degrees | Masters Students | Doctoral Students | Graduate Diplomas |
|---|---|---|---|
| 795 | 855 | 1422 | 15 |
Continuing Professional Development 2022-23
Faculty and Staff 2023
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| Clinical | Status Only | Adjunct | Appointed | Staff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7547 | 1658 | 394 | 249 | 893 |
Partnerships
Toronto Academic Health Science Network Hospitals and Other Affiliated Institutions
The Temerty Faculty of Medicine and our affiliated hospitals form one of the leading health sciences centres for research and education in North America. The hub centres on the Toronto Academic Health Science Network (TAHSN) – composed of our fully affiliated and associate affiliated hospitals – and extends to another 20 community-affiliated hospitals and healthcare sites in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.
TAHSN Fully Affiliated Hospitals
Community Affiliated Hospitals
- Lakeridge Health
- Oak Valley Health
- Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences
- Unity Health Toronto – Providence Healthcare Site*
- Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre
- Southlake Regional Health Centre
- Waypoint Centre For Mental Health Care
- West Park Healthcare Centre
- William Osler Health System
Other Affiliates
(*) These hospitals merged in 2017; the University’s affiliations continue on a site-specific basis.
(***) Formerly Hincks-Dellcrest Treatment Centre, this site integrated with the Hospital for Sick Children in 2017; the University’s affiliations continue on a site-specific basis.
Honours & Awards
At Temerty Medicine, many of our faculty members, learners and staff receive recognition for their work every year. View some of those honours and awards below.
International Awards
Professor Laura Chiavaroli
2024 Mead Johnson Award
American Society for Nutrition
This award is given to an investigator for a single outstanding piece of nutrition research or a series of papers on the same subject accomplished within 10 years of postgraduate training.
Professor Daniel Drucker
2023 Wolf Prize in Medicine
The Wolf Foundation
The acclaimed Wolf Prize is awarded to outstanding scientists and artists from around the world for achievements in the interest of humanity and friendly relations among people. The prize laureates are selected by international Jury Committees which comprise world-renowned professionals from all over the world.
University Professor Daniel Drucker
2024 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
Princess of Asturias Foundation
The Princess of Asturias Awards are conferred on individuals and/or institutions that, through their work and merits in scientific, technical, cultural, social and humanitarian fields, contribute to progress and social well-being in an extraordinary and exemplary way. University Professor Drucker shares the 2024 honor with Joel Habener, Jens Holst, Svetlana Mojsov and Jeffrey Friedman.
Professor Rachel Harding
2024 Nancy S. Wexler Young Investigator Prize
Hereditary Disease Foundation
This distinctive recognition is presented annually to an early-career researcher whose work reflects the highest caliber of excellence, diligence, and creative thinking. The prize recipient is selected by the HDF Scientific Advisory Board. The Nancy S. Wexler Prize honors the pioneering spirit, relentless dedication, and enduring optimism of Nancy S. Wexler, PhD, President of HDF.
Professor Nicola Jones
2023 Shwachman Award
North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
This award honours a member of North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition for their outstanding scientific or educational contributions and achievements in the field of pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition.
Professor Adam Metherel
2024 E. L. R. Stokstad Award
American Society for Nutrition
This award is given for outstanding fundamental research in nutrition, with preference to scientists at relatively early stages in their careers.
Professor Tak Mak
Pezcoller Foundation-American Association for Cancer Research International Award for Extraordinary Achievement
Pezcoller Foundation
This award recognizes a scientist of international renown who has made a major scientific discovery in basic cancer research or made significant contributions to translational cancer research and who continues to be active in cancer research and has a record of recent, noteworthy publications and whose ongoing work holds promise for continued substantive contributions to progress in the field of cancer.
Professor Michael Patlas
Honorary Membership
Association of Radiologists of Ukraine
This award recognizes Professor Patlas' humanitarian work in Ukraine. Patlas organized a virtual monthly continuing education program, focused on emergency radiology, for Ukrainian radiologists who lost their continuing medical education access during the war and required immediate training in combat radiology.
Professor Allan Peterkin
2023 Visionary Award
Health Humanities Consortium
This award honours an individual who has made sustained and exceptional contributions to the field of health humanities in the realms of education, research or leadership.
Professor Ruth Ross
Mechoulam Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Cannabinoid Research
International Cannabinoid Research Society
This award is given to a distinguished established scientist who has made continued meritorious, significant and widely recognized contributions to cannabinoid and endocannabinoid research that have moved the discipline forward.
National Awards
Professor Peter Adamson
2024 Teasdale-Corti Humanitarian Award
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
This award recognizes an individual who goes beyond the norms of routine practice to provide health care.
Professor Stavroula (Roula) Andreopoulos
OCUFA Teaching Award
Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations
The Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations Awards of Distinction showcase the great innovation, advocacy, and dedication found on public university campuses and in the higher education community.
Professor Venkat Bhat
2024 Royal College Award for Early Career Leadership in Professional Practice/Patient Care
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
This award recognizes new Royal College Fellows (with seven or fewer years of post-training full-time practice) who have shown outstanding leadership, initiative, service and/or innovation.
Professor Deanna Chaukos
2023 AFMC Young Educators Award
The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada
The AFMC Young Educators Award recognizes the outstanding effort or achievements of an individual within their first seven years as a faculty member who produced change within their Faculty of Medicine or the general medical community.
Professor Chung-Wai Chow
Brockhouse Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Prof. Chow is recognized alongside fellow team members Greg Evans, Jeff Brook, Miriam Diamond, Marianne Hatzopoulou, Jim Wallace, Cheol-Heon Jeong and Jim Wallace for developing innovative tools and strategies for studying air pollution and its effects.
Professor Shaheen Darani
2023 AFMC Clinical Teacher Award
The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada
The AFMC Clinical Teacher Award recognizes excellence in clinical teaching by an individual faculty member in a Faculty of Medicine in Canada. This award was established in 2014 and is intended to emphasize the importance of clinical teaching in academic medicine.
University Professor John Dick
2023 Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Laureate
Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
This honour recognizes people whose outstanding leadership and contributions to medicine and the health sciences, in Canada or abroad, have led to extraordinary improvements in human health.
Professor Ayelet Kuper
2024 AFMC May Cohen Equity, Diversity and Gender Award
Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada
This award recognizes the outstanding effort or achievement of an individual, program, department or faculty in improving the gender-equity environment and diversity in academic medicine in Canada. Named after May Cohen, the award is to exemplify the characteristics that she represents.
Professor Sylvia Langlois
2023 Certificate of Merit Award
Canadian Association for Medical Education
CAME Certificate of Merit which promotes, recognizes and rewards faculty committed to medical education in Canadian medical schools.
Professor Heather MacNeill
2024 CAME Certificate of Merit
Canadian Association for Medical Education
This award recognizes senior faculty who have made an exceptional contribution to medical education throughout their academic career.
Professor Vasanti Malik
2024 CIHR-INMD-CNS Early Career Researcher Partnership Award
Canadian Nutrition Society
This prize recognizes an individual who is actively engaged in health-related research and has demonstrated excellence and outstanding contributions in nutrition-related research that is relevant to the mandate of the Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes and the Canadian Nutrition Society.
Professor Allison McGeer
2023 Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Laureate
Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
This honour recognizes people whose outstanding leadership and contributions to medicine and the health sciences, in Canada or abroad, have led to extraordinary improvements in human health.
Professor Benoit Mulsant
2023 Presidential Award for Distinguished Scientific Achievement
American Association of Chairs of Departments of Psychiatry
Professor Steven Narod
2023 McLaughlin Medal
Royal Society of Canada
This award recognizes important research of sustained excellence in any branch of medical sciences.
Professor Mireille Norris
2023 Lifetime Achievement Award
Black Physicians of Canada
This award is given to a retired or practicing Black physician who has made an outstanding contribution to the Black community, through research, education or advocacy and advanced the humanitarian or cultural life of the Black community in Canada.
Professor Melissa Nutik
2024 CAME Certificate of Merit
Canadian Association for Medical Education
This award recognizes senior faculty who have made an exceptional contribution to medical education throughout their academic career.
Professor Michael Patlas
Medal of Excellence Award
Canadian Emergency, Trauma and Acute Care Radiology Society
This award recognizes distinguished and extraordinary service to the discipline of Emergency, Trauma, and acute radiology.
Professor David Rojas
2024 CAME Certificate of Merit
Canadian Association for Medical Education
This award recognizes senior faculty who have made an exceptional contribution to medical education throughout their academic career.
Professor Paula Rowland
2023 Certificate of Merit Award
Canadian Association for Medical Education
CAME Certificate of Merit which promotes, recognizes and rewards faculty committed to medical education in Canadian medical schools.
Professor Walter Tavares
2023 Certificate of Merit Award
Canadian Association for Medical Education
CAME Certificate of Merit which promotes, recognizes and rewards faculty committed to medical education in Canadian medical schools.
Professor Cynthia Whitehead
2023 CAME Ian Hart Award Recipient
Canadian Association for Medical Education
Prof. Whitehead is a Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Director and Scientist at the Wilson Centre for Research in Education and holds the BMO Financial Group Chair in Health Professions Education Research at University Health Network. This this award recognizes senior faculty who have made an exceptional contribution to medical education throughout their academic career.
Professor Treena Wilkie
2024 AFMC Wellness Award
Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada
The AFMC Wellness Award recognizes an individual in Canada who has shown dedication to the promotion and advancement of the wellness of physicians, medical students, residents, fellows, and/or researchers, graduate students, and post-doctoral scholars.
Professor Gelareh Zadeh
2023 Canada Gairdner Momentum Award
Gairdner Foundation
This award recognizes recognizes mid-career investigators who in their last six active years have produced exceptional scientific research contributions with continued potential for impact on human health.
Provincial Awards
Professor Katherine Rouleau
2023 CPSO Council Award
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
The Council Award is presented at each meeting of Council to honour outstanding Ontario doctors who have demonstrated excellence and come closest to meeting society's vision of an "ideal physician".
Professor Charles Tator
2023 Bruce Prentice Family Legacy Award
Ontario Sports Hall Of Fame
This is presented to an individual or group whose outstanding contribution to sport or athletics is already well documented. Honourees have demonstrated remarkable, long term contribution to sport in Ontario and the people involved.
University of Toronto / Temerty Medicine Awards
Professor Denise Belsham
2023 President’s Teaching Award
University of Toronto
Professor Angela Colantanio
2024 School of Graduate Studies Supervision Award
University of Toronto
The School of Graduate Studies Supervision Awards aim to recognize outstanding performance in the multiple roles associated with graduate student supervision.
Professor Brian Cox
2024 Excellence in Linking Undergraduate Teaching to Research in Life Sciences
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
This award is for sustained excellence, mentorship and innovative methods that link undergraduate teaching to experiential research opportunities such as research project courses and summer student research projects or equivalent programs.
Trevor Cuddy
2024 President’s Excellence Award – Influential Excellence
University of Toronto
Recipients of the President’s Excellence Award demonstrate outstanding service to the University and enhance the university experience for students, faculty members, librarians, and / or staff in accordance with the University’s mission.
Professor Shelly Dev
2024 W. T. Aikins Award for Excellence in Individual Teaching Performance – Foundations
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
The W. T. Aikins Awards are named after Dr. W.T. Aikins, the first Dean of the University of Toronto, Temerty Faculty of Medicine after it was reorganized in 1887. These awards are the Faculty's most prestigious awards for sustained commitment to and excellence in undergraduate teaching.
Professor Helena Dhamko and Nicholas Blanchette
2024 W. T. Aikins Award for Excellence in Individual Teaching Performance – Clerkship
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
The W. T. Aikins Awards are named after Dr. W.T. Aikins, the first Dean of the University of Toronto, Temerty Faculty of Medicine after it was reorganized in 1887. These awards are the Faculty's most prestigious awards for sustained commitment to and excellence in undergraduate teaching.
Professor Daphna Grossman
2024 Excellence in Community-Based Teaching (Community Hospital)
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
This award recognizes excellence in teaching at a community hospital.
Professors Yayi Huang, Yonah Krakowsky and Mark Wheatcroft
2023 Atkins Award for Individual Teaching Performance in Clerkship
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
University Professor David Jenkins
2024 President's Impact Award
University of Toronto
These awards celebrate and honour faculty members and teams of faculty whose research has led to significant impact beyond academia. They recognize contributions that emerge from academic scholarship and have fully realized, demonstrable impacts on any domain of society, whether through a single influential contribution or through an ongoing commitment to research translation. Prof. Jenkins is honoured for his studies on the health effects of food that have changed how the world makes healthy dietary choices.
University Professor David Jenkins
2024 MD Program Teaching Award for Excellence
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
The MD Program Teaching Award for Excellence recognizes faculty, residents, graduate student teachers and clinicians in the MD Program who have attained exceptional Teaching Evaluation Scores in one or more of the teaching activities to which they have contributed.
Professors Ahmed Kayssi, Elliot Lass and Brian Wong and Dalia Karol
2023 Excellence in Resource Stewardship Teaching Award in the MD Program
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor Nohjin Kee
2024 Sustained Excellence and Innovation in Life Sciences Education
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
The purpose of these awards is to honour excellence and sustained contributions by faculty members in undergraduate Arts and Science teaching and the undergraduate experience in life sciences.
Professor Kimberly Lazare
2024 Excellence in Community-Based Teaching (Clinic/Office/Practice)
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
This award recognizes excellence in teaching at a community-based physician office/clinic.
Professors Jerome Leis and Geetha Mukerji
Excellence in Resource Stewardship Teaching Award
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
The Excellence in Resource Stewardship Teaching Award was established in 2021. The award recognizes faculty members and postgraduate trainees (residents and fellows) who effectively mentor learners in concepts of resource stewardship and demonstrate exemplary resource stewardship in their own clinical practices.
Professor Andres Lozano
2023 Norman Rosenblum Award for Excellence in Mentorship in the MD/PhD Program
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor Stephanie Lurch
2023 Award for Excellence in Community-Based Teaching (Rehabilitation Sciences)
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor Anne McLeod
2023 Atkins Award for Excellence in Course Development/Program Coordination
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor Chase McMurren
2024 Miriam Rossi Award for Health Equity in Undergraduate Medical Education
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
The Miriam Rossi Award for Health Equity in Undergraduate Medical Education aims to recognize University of Toronto MD Program faculty (individual or group) and administrative staff (individual or group) members for their commitment to diversity and health equity in undergraduate medical education.
Professors Helen Miliotis, Jastaran Singh and Martina Steiner
2024 Early Career Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentorship
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
This award is restricted to Faculty in the early stages of their career within 8 years of their initial SGS membership (including graduate memberships elsewhere) as of December of application year.
Professors Barbara-Ann Millar and Yvonne Chan (co-winners)
Colin Woolf Longterm Contributions to Continuing Professional Development Award
Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Continuing Professional Development
This award recognizes excellence in teaching, subject mastery and the ability to engage learners.
Professor Thierry Mallevaey
Mid Career Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentorship
Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Graduate and Life Sciences Education
Professors Sarah Munce and Alison Novak
RSI Faculty Service Awards
Rehabilitation Sciences Institute
This award is to recognize an outstanding service contribution to vision and mission of RSI through dedicated service contribution.
Professor Emily Nalder
2023 Dr. Patty Rigby Award for Early Career Excellence in Supervision and Mentorship
Rehabilitation Sciences Institute
This award is to recognize RSI faculty members who have demonstrated outstanding contributions to the training and experience of graduate students at RSI.
Professors James Owen and Luke Devine
2024 W. T. Aikins Award for Course/Program Development and Coordination
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
The W. T. Aikins Awards are named after Dr. W.T. Aikins, the first Dean of the University of Toronto, Temerty Faculty of Medicine after it was reorganized in 1887. These awards are the Faculty's most prestigious awards for sustained commitment to and excellence in undergraduate teaching.
Professor Nick Reed
2023 Dina Brooks Award for Continuing/Sustained Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision and Mentorship
Rehabilitation Sciences Institute
This award is to recognize RSI faculty members who have demonstrated outstanding contributions to the training and experience of graduate students at RSI.
Dr. Amir Salamat
Excellence in Community-Based Teaching (Clinic/Office/Practice)
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
This award acknowledges the significant contribution of of community-based teachers in community-based physicians offices or clinics to the learning of students and trainees at the University of Toronto.
Professor Jasty Singh
2023-24 Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Award
University of Toronto
The Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Award recognizes faculty members who demonstrate an exceptional commitment to student learning, pedagogical engagement and teaching innovation.
Professor Barathi Rajasri Sreenivasan
2023 Aikins Award for Individual Teaching Performance in Foundations
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor Sharon Switzer-McIntyre
2023 President’s Teaching Award
University of Toronto
Professor Rosalie Wang
2023 RSI Teaching Award
Rehabilitation Sciences Institute
This award is to recognize RSI faculty members who have demonstrated outstanding contributions to teaching of the required or elective courses solely or jointly administered by RSI.
Professor David Wheler
2024 Sustained Excellence in Community-Based Teaching
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
This award recognizes sustained (normally 10 years) excellence in community-based teaching, and may include mentorship, the integration of scholarship in teaching, interprofessional collaboration, etc.
Professor Brian Wong
2024 Charles Mickle Fellowship Award
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
This award is given annually to a medical educator who has contributed to one or more areas of the medical education continuum at U of T and recognizes an individual who, within the preceding 10 years, has contributed to the advancement and promotion of sound knowledge of a practical kind in medical art or science.
Professor Cindy Woodland
Sustained Excellence in Teaching Mentorship in Graduate Education
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
The purpose is to honour and celebrate outstanding contributions to graduate education by faculty in Temerty Medicine who teach in doctoral stream or professional graduate programs.
Professor Stephanie Zhou
2023 Miriam Rossi Award for Health Equity in Undergraduate Medical Education
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Staff Awards
Mark Bennett
2023 TDC Ezhishin Scholarship Award
Type Directors Club
Named after the Ojibwe word for “s/he leaves a mark,” this annual scholarship was established by the Type Directors Club and Google for First Nation and Native American people in Canada and the U.S. who exemplify a creative practice that explores typography, type design or relevant linguistic work.