Clinician-Researcher Track (CResT)

As the home of the largest psychiatry residency training program in Canada, the Department of Psychiatry in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto is committed to training of the next generation of physician-scientists and academic psychiatrists. Consistently ranked among the top 10 institutions in the world for clinical training and research in neuroscience and psychiatry, the Department has a proven track record of producing leaders in the field of brain sciences and academic psychiatry.

The Clinician-Researcher Track (CResT) is a new direct entry residency program in psychiatry at the University of Toronto. CReST provides a fully integrated research training experience embedded in a psychiatry residency program.

This unique residency track is designed for graduating medical students with prior research training who are highly motivated to pursue careers as clinician scientists or scholars conducting basic, translational, clinical, or public health research, or scholarship in education, quality improvement, the humanities, or social sciences. 

For more information, contact Dr. Sean Nestor, Assistant Program Director, CReST at sean.nestor@utoronto.ca