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Core Members

Individuals with a primary clinical appointment within the Division of GIM, University Health Network/Sinai Health and a faculty appointment within the Department of Medicine, University of Toronto.  Individuals actively contribute to the Centre fostering excellence in practice based medical education and furthering the Centre’s mission.

 

Expectations:

  • Regularly attend and actively participate in educational rounds and Centre events

  • Contribute through participation on administrative and/or education committees

  • Serve as Supervisors or co-Supervisors and Mentors to Centre fellows and trainees

  • Support and drive education and research activities

  • Foster collaborations with other leading education and research Centres 

  • Disseminate high quality scholarship locally, nationally, and internationally

  • Acknowledge Centre support in dissemination activities

 

Benefits:

  • Mentorship, guidance, and expertise of clinicians with extensive experience in medical education and education in quality improvement research

  • Skilled, structured support for research question and method development

  • Opportunities to disseminate research at the Centre’s educational rounds 

  • Opportunities to mentor and supervise fellows and junior learners

  • Opportunities to apply for awards and funding established by the Centre

  • Access to administrative and research support when available  

  • Access to low and high-fidelity simulators  

Division of General Internal Medicine, UHN/Sinai Health  

Nadine Abdullah

Tarek Abdelhalim

Rodrigo B. Cavalcanti 

Luke Devine

David Frost

Alison Lai 

Zoe Lau

Thomas MacMillan 

Lindsay Melvin  

Shail Rawal

Laura Rodger 

Rupal Shah

Kevin Venus

Vanessa Zannella

Sherif Youssef 

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