Centres of Excellence

The University of Toronto Advanced Imaging and Education Centre (AIEC) is dedicated to providing the highest standard of quality education to the students who will participate in the advanced imaging workshops incorporating computed tomography courses in cardiac, neurological, abdominal and vascular imaging. Based at Toronto General Hospital, the AIEC provides access to a databank of more than 3000 cases including CT coronary angiography (64 and 320 row MDCT), PET CT, thoraco-abdominal and peripheral vascular CTA, and virtual colonography.

The Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare Education (CACHE) is a strategic partnership between the University of Toronto and the Toronto Academic Health Sciences Network with the University Health Network as lead hospital. The Centre provides IPE opportunities to pre-entry to practice students and practice-based health professionals at our affiliated hospitals and community clinical placements and aims to lead the advancement of IPE through education, practice and research initiatives.

Through the de Souza Institute, health care professionals obtain the specialized skills to guide and help cancer patients throughout their journey (prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship and palliation). Courses offered by the institute are primarily online with the occasional course through videoconferencing, webcasting or in-person. The institute has built strong partnerships with provincial and national organizations including Cancer Care Ontario, Canadian Nurses Association, Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology, and cancer agencies across Canada.

The HoPingKong Centre for Excellence in Education and Practice (CEEP) is dedicated to improving medical education at the bedside through innovation and scholarship. The Centre's purpose is to educate physicians for scholarly careers in General Internal Medicine and train the next generations of doctors who teach. CEEP is committed to pioneering new ways of using high fidelity simulation for teaching clinical skills and in emphasizing the importance of the art of medicine.

The Quality & Safety Centre of Excellence empowers healthcare professionals within UHN and beyond with leading-edge Quality & Safety knowledge, skills, and networks to enable the best healthcare outcomes and experiences. Learn more about the Quality & Safety Centre of Excellence.

The Temerty Centre proudly boasts the future of innovative surgical training. Officially opening it’s doors in Spring 2022 it will become known as a hub of advanced surgical simulation-based education and training for surgeons and healthcare professionals. With the completion of Phase I, we offer a state-of-the-art high-fidelity OR simulation lab, a 10-bay self-directed skills lab and an innovation hub for research cultivation in the areas of robotics and artificial intelligence in surgery. In honouring our roots, we are an official testing centre for the Fundamentals in Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS), and continue to support remote training of international surgeons around the world. The Centre has dedicated telesimulation/telementoring rooms to support the important work that has been done and to plan for the future of telesimulation. Upon completion of Phase II in Spring 2024 an additional 10 mini-OR bays will be added to the roster allowing for larger wet-lab simulation courses. Please visit us at www.temertysimcentre.com to see the wide range of offerings and services our Centre has available.

At The Wilson Centre we produce knowledge to transform health professions education to meet the evolving needs of society.

To do that, The Wilson Centre brings scientific understanding to health professions education and trains the next generation of education researchers to do the same. In an academic partnership with the University of Toronto the Wilson Centre studies a broad range of research questions drawing upon a host of academic traditions.

From understanding how cognitive integration helps learners retain information to making visible the influence of the hidden curriculum, from simulation design to critical examinations of competence and professionalism, The Wilson Centre consistently demonstrates that in order to understand education we must understand both the mechanisms and context of learning.

Simply put, The Wilson Centre makes health professions education better for educators and learners in order to best serve patients.

Please visit us at www.thewilsoncentre.ca to meet our scientists and fellows and to see the broad range of education research events we host and promote.