Medical Residents

Medical Residents are required to register EACH academic year with the University of Toronto AND each hospital where they do their rotations.

Visit the University of Toronto Post-Graduate Medical Education (PGME) webpage for more information about applying for residency training.

Key resources such as the PGME orientation manual, an overview of PGME and Life at UofT can be at orientation resources for new trainees.

Upon receiving your PGME registration confirmation, please follow the UHN registration instructions to complete your application at UHN.

Once you have completed your rotation at UHN, please return the following hospital property:

• Pager to a UHN Medical Education office
• Uniform linens (scrubs, lab coat etc.) to Linen Services
• Photo ID to hospital security

For further inquiries, please contact MedicalEducation@uhn.ca or review our PGME registration FAQs.

Registration with postgraduate medical education at the University of Toronto requires a full immunization record and mask fit testing to be completed and signed by a clinic, health centre, or health care professional other than yourself. New trainees will have three months to acquire their mask fit test at the hospital of their first rotation.

For further details on UHN mask fit testing and general occupational health queries for while onsite please visit the Health Services department page on the intranet.

If a workplace injury occurs, please inform your supervisor and contact UHN Health Services at your site.

Scrubs and pager forms must be picked up at The UHN Medical Education Office:

TGH - 200 Elizabeth Street, Eaton Wing, Ground-001, 0800-1600
TWH - 399 Bathurst Steet, 3rd Floor, West Wing

Key resources such as the PGME orientation manual, an overview of PGME and Life at UofT can be found at orientation resources for new trainees.

The UHN encompasses teaching and learning at four hospitals- Princess Margaret, Toronto General and Toronto Western hospitals, and the five campuses of Toronto Rehab - as well as full-time programs at the School of Applied Health Sciences and a range of options via the School of Continuing Education at the Michener Institute of Education at UHN. To learn more about the services, programs and amenities offered at each location please visit UHN locations.

• Get to and around UHN
• In-hospital amenities
• Information about bike parking can be found on the Energy and Environment department home page on the UHN Intranet

UHN Shuttle Service
A free shuttle service runs between Toronto Western and Toronto General Hospitals Monday through Friday.

Each academic year, all medical learners rotating through UHN are required to submit an online placement. Once this placement is approved, your registration with UHN Medical Education is complete and, if applicable, your network access information will be available through your learner profile on the site.

For more details on this process, please refer to the PGME UHN registration instructions and the registration FAQs.

Mandatory UHN Online Modules

UHN requires that all postgraduate medical learners complete a small number of eLearning modules each academic year.

Your UMLearns profile keeps track of what modules you have to complete. Please log in and select 'Network login' to view outstanding modules.

Visit the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada webpage for more details on required competencies.

Providing inclusive and safe spaces for learners throughout their education is of the utmost importance. Learn more about the safe space resources available to you at UofT and on the Inclusion Diversity Equity and Accessibility page on the People and Culture department page on the UHN corporate intranet (People and Culture > IDEA).

The Michener Institute of Education at UHN is committed to learner and educator wellness at both an individual and at an organizational level. Workplace wellness at UHN is a comprehensive approach to improving the health and well-being of employees, trainees and the organization. A healthy organization translates into a more productive and resilient workforce.

You can visit our Oasis Wellness Centre - Main Office at Toronto General Hospital - 1NU168.

The Office of Resident Wellness at the University of Toronto also offers support to all currently registered Residents.

Learner requiring assistance across UHN can find wide array of resources to support learners on UHN Learner Assistance page.

The University of Toronto Post-Graduate Medical Education offers urgent advice for PGME Trainees through the Office of Learner Affairs and Learner Mistreatment.

Mack Foundation Bursary

Through a generous donation by the Mack Family Foundation, Post-Graduate Medical Education offers bursaries to junior residents who presented UHN-supervised research at an approved medical conference during the previous calendar year.

Funding of up to $2,500 will be awarded to reimburse the cost of travel, hotel/accommodations, conference registration and posters. Successful applicants will be notified via e-mail and recognized at the annual awards reception. To apply please click on Mack Foundation Bursary document.

Please contact your program director for more information on financial aid.

Wightman-Berris Academy Awards

UHN and Mount Sinai Hospital offer the Wightman-Berris Academy Awards that recognize the outstanding teachers and educators who have made significant contributions to health professional education on staff at the hospitals associated with the Wightman-Berris Academy.

Awards open to PGME Trainees

Visit the Post-Graduate Medical Education webpage for more information about awards open to PGME trainees.

We know you need space to study, eat and relax while learning with us. Most spaces that are open to staff are also open to learners.

Call Rooms and Lounges

Resident/Fellow Lounges at UHN
Toronto General Campus (badge access)
GNU 122 - Ground Floor Norman Urquhart Wing, Room G-122 (badge access)

Toronto Western Campus
8MCL 419 - 8th floor McLaughlin Pavilion, Room 8-419 (punch code; contact program administrative for door code)

Princess Margaret Campus
14th floor, Room 14-619 (punch code; contact program administrative for door code

Toronto Rehab Campus
University Campus: 4th floor, Room 4-131 (badge access)
Lyndhurst: Learner Lounge - TLC Room 206

For specific call room information, please contact your postgraduate education site lead/director or administrative coordinator.

Libraries

The UHN Library Network is one of the largest in Canada and includes health sciences academic libraries across UHN hospitals, providing expert information leadership across UHN and beyond.

• Hospital-based library
• Virtual library

Education Centres

Education spaces at Toronto General Hospital and Toronto Western Hospitals are equipped with bookable seminar rooms, exam rooms, kitchens and computer facilities along with drop-in spaces accessible to all learners

The Paul B. Helliwell Centre for Medical Education
The Paul B. Helliwell Centre for Medical Education is the home base for Wightman-Berris Academy students at Toronto General Hospital. The centre was made possible through a generous donation from the Paul B. Helliwell Foundation. The Helliwell Centre includes:

• Large classrooms and smaller seminar rooms
• A computer lab available to medical students that includes access to internet and printing. The computers in the lab give students access to the UHN Intranet site
• A spacious student lounge with additional computers, phones and a fully functional kitchenette
• Harvey Simulator

An observation corridor between examination rooms can be used to view the interactions through one-way glass windows and sets of headphones allow observers to listen to interactions.

Toronto General Hospital (Helliwell Centre)
200 Elizabeth Street, Eaton North, Ground Floor, Room 001
Phone: 416 340 4846

Student Services Centre

Opened in June 2014, The Michener Institute of Education at the UHN Student Services Centre is a welcoming environment that provides a central location for students learners from all health care professions to access placement services, resources and support. Our staff are committed to ensuring students have a positive learning experience and are equipped with the knowledge and expertise to guide students to the rich learning opportunities available throughout the hospital network.

Our Services

UHN Student Services Centre is available to support students with all things related to clinical placements. These services include, but are not limited to, registration, orientation, preceptor information, locker location, help for dealing with challenging situations, job search, seeking mentors/peer support and evaluations.

Workshops and In-Services

UHN Student Services Centre is excited to offer a myriad of professional development workshops for students, staff and visitors. Workshops include resume writing, tips and tricks for successful interviewing, enhancing the student/preceptorship relationship, and career planning/coaching. In-services such as respiratory therapy, pain management, palliative care and many more are available based on demand every semester.

Location

The Student Services Centre is located on the ground floor of Toronto General Hospital beside the food court, along the north-south corridor connecting the Gerrard Street entrance and the MaRS building.

Regular Student Drop-In Hours: Open 8:00am - 4:00pm
Email: studentcentre@uhn.ca

There are many spaces across the hospital network that can serve as learning spaces.

If you are interested in using a learning space, please drop in or if you would like to book a space please contact the centres:

Toronto General Hospital (Helliwell Centre)
200 Elizabeth Street, Eaton North, Ground Floor, Room 001
Toronto, ON M5G 2C4
Phone: 416 340 4846
Email: medicaleducation@uhn.ca

Toronto Western Hospital Education Centre
399 Bathurst Street, 3rd Floor, West Wing
Toronto, ON M5T 2S6
Phone: 416 603 5924
Email: medicaleducation@uhn.ca

Rooms:

• Seminar rooms (six total)
• Equipped with conference tables and large monitors that can be used as projection screens
• Seminar Rooms can accommodate up to 10 to 12 people
• Seminar Rooms 1-3 and 5 & 6 have the ability to combine displays with retractable doors to create a larger learning monitors that can be linked to any computer and used as a large display screen. Additional audio-visual equipment can be acquired through the hospital's audio-visual department

• Student lounge with full kitchen
• Lactation Space
• Computer lab with multiple dual screen computer stations with printing and photocopying
• Full wireless service

Toronto Western Hospital (MedEd West)
750 Dundas Street West, The Med-West Building, 3rd Floor, Suite 305
Toronto, ON M5T 2S8
Phone: 416 603 5924
Email: medicaleducation@uhn.ca

MedEd West is located in the Med West Building, immediately across the street from the Bathurst Street entrance to Toronto Western Hospital. The Med West Building sits on the north-west corner of Bathurst Street and Dundas Street West.

MedEd West is home for Wightman-Berris students at the Toronto Western Hospital. The Centre is just across the street from the Bathurst Street entrance to the Hospital.

• Seminar rooms (five total)
  • Equipped with conference tables and large TV screens that can be used as projection screens
  • Rooms 1, 2, 3, 4: accommodate 10 to 12 people
  • Room 5: accommodates up to 25 people

• All seminar rooms contain TV screens that can be linked to any computer and used as a large display screen. Additional audio-visual equipment is available through the hospital’s audio-visual department.

• MedEd West has a student lounge and computer lab with two computer stations.
• MedEd West has full wireless service.

Princess Margaret Education Centre
The Princess Margaret Education Centre is anticipated to open in early 2023. You will need to use the 620 University Avenue Elevators to get to the space, located on the 6th floor.

The Temerty Advanced Education & Simulation Centre (Temerty Centre)

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.

Anesthesia Simulation Centre

Using simulation equipment from a patient donation, the Anesthesia Assistants at UHN developed the Anesthesia Simulation Centre. To assist healthcare professionals to maintain and enhance patient safety practices through ongoing learning, the Anesthesia Simulation Centre created the UHN Continuing Education Simulation Program (CESP). This simulation program is accredited by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Royal College accredited simulation programs are internationally recognized and must undergo a rigorous peer review process.

The Anesthesia Simulation Centre presents a creative venue for endless clinical situations from unit specific to interprofessional scenarios for both novice and experienced healthcare professionals. Participants can work individually or in teams to practice routine procedures, manage crisis situations, rehearse treatment protocols, and reflect on teamwork skills in a safe learning environment without any risk to real patients.

The Anesthesia Simulation Centre offers several simulation modalities including:

• Computerized high-fidelity adult human patient simulator
• Task trainers
• Role-playing
• Various bench-top 3D printed anatomical models

For each simulation session, the Simulation Program Coordinator works collaboratively with clinical educators from various disciplines to create unique scenarios that are tailored to the specific educational and training needs of the group. The scenarios provide formative and summative assessments with structured feedback for the participants. During the debriefing of the scenarios, in-depth discussions take place about ways to optimize current clinical practices.

By bringing the acquisition and implementation of knowledge, skills, and decision-making into clinical practice, in a safe environment, the Anesthesia Simulation Centre creates a continuous learning environment for healthcare professionals. This leads to increased patient safety, better interprofessional communication, and identification of learning gaps for improvement.

Centre for Learning, Innovation and Simulation - The Michener Institute of Education at UHN

The mandate for the Centre for Learning, Innovation and Simulation (CLIS) is to support the vision and strategic direction of Michener's academic programs. CLIS instructional designers, learning specialists and support staff work with stakeholders to develop curriculum and deliver best practice simulation methodology in order to maximize student learning. CLIS coordinates curriculum, faculty and organizational development activities. In concert with interprofessional collaboration and education initiatives (IPC and IPE) at Michener, CLIS provides expertise in competency-based, simulation-enhanced curriculum design and evaluation

UHN is Canada's leading research hospital network, so you may have the opportunity to engage in clinical or educational research.

For more information about research at UHN, and to ensure you have completed all necessary requirements to conduct research, please explore these resources:

• The Office of Research Trainees (ORT) - Support and information resource for research trainee related matters who aims to support the research training within UHN. We directly support research trainees at the graduate (MSc and PhD) and postdoctoral levels.
• UHN Research Institutes
• UHN Libraries
• CAP Research and Innovation - Information on practice based research
• Wilson Centre
• Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare and Education (CACHE)
• The Institute for Education Research

The UHN International Centre for Education (UHN ICE) offers a wide variety of professional development opportunities such as observership-based personalized programs, online courses and in-person workshops.

Clinical Observership Program

Through an observership/authorized guest visit, health care professionals and learners have an opportunity to learn by observing examinations and other procedures performed by our physicians, surgeons, nurses, and other staff in our hospitals.

For instructions on how to find a sponsor for an Observership please visit request sponsor page.

At UHN, you cannot help but be involved in interprofessional education. That could mean taking part in a structured student IPE placement, or engaging in other IPE activities such as attending team rounds and family meetings, shadowing a team member from another profession, or reviewing a patient chart.

Staff opportunities for interprofessional education at UHN are also critical. IPE activities are open to all team members as part of our culture of lifelong learning. Interprofessional care and collaborative practice have many champions at both the professional and program levels across the hospital campuses. These champions host interprofessional care and education rounds and workshops, train and develop IPC/E facilitators, and model interprofessional patient-centered care.

Please contact your postgraduate education site lead or director for more information.

POWER is the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine’s Postgraduate Medical Education Evaluation and Registration system available to postgraduate trainees, teachers, administrators and program directors.

• For access to the system, please visit the Power website.
• For evaluation or system-related issues, please contact the POWER Help Desk at power.help@utoronto.ca

Visit the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada for resources to help you transition from residency into practice.

For information on Continuing Education opportunities, please visit the Michener Institute of Education at UHN Continuing Education website.

For a complete list please visit Continuing Professional Development and Continuing Medical Education opportunities at The Michener Institute of Education at UHN.

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