The Centre for Faculty Development (CFD) was founded in 2002 as a partnership between St. Michael's Hospital (now known as Unity Health Toronto) and the University of Toronto, Temerty Faculty of Medicine. It is positioned as an Extra-Departmental Unit within UofT.
At the CFD we are committed to supporting health professionals in their multiple education roles and activities – including teaching, academic leadership, scholarship and advocacy. We offer flexible and adaptable programming that is responsive to emerging needs, facilitates communities and networking, and supports capacity building across the system.
More specifically our offerings include longitudinal programs, individual workshops, curated lists of resources, and faculty development consultations with local, national and international partners.
We view faculty development as education knowledge mobilization, enabling bidrectional knowledge sharing between education scholarship practices and basic education research.
Vision- Advancing faculty development across the health sciences to promote academic excellence
Mission- To enhance teaching, learning and leadership in the academic health sciences system through faculty development.
Values- As leaders who are committed to excellence and the well being of faculty, students and their communities, the CFD embraces the following core values:
The CFD has 10-15 program or project committees active any given time. Our core committees are: Governance Committee and Executive Council.
This committee is advisory to the CFD Director and the CFD Executive Council. The committee has the responsibility for oversight of the unit’s accountability and monitoring the quality of the educational and research activities of the Centre.
This is accomplished by:
The Executive Council is responsible for overseeing matters of day-to-day success of the CFD.
This is accomplished by: