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Mentorship Groups
To support the primary mentor/mentee model, the Department is further supporting career development and wellness through group communities.
- All faculty (junior or senior) are welcome to register for groups on a rolling basis
- Group members can attend as many / as few sessions as their availability allows
- The intention for the mentorship groups is that they self-evolve and identify their own desired group structure, areas of interest and needs
Missed a previous session? Join the mentorship group on Qooper, where you can find session slides/recordings (if available) and other relevant resources.
We are pleased to introduce a mentorship group meeting for those faculty that identify as 2SLGBTQ+
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Topics of interest may include strategies and skills to address known challenges, important elements that are key to success as a principal investigator and researcher, and opportunities concerning academic careers of faculty in a clinician scientist or clinician investigator role.
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Possible topics that could be addressed include: choosing and maintaining a career pathway, promotion pathways for clinician teachers, effectively supporting trainees, wellness and establishing a network for support & shared reflection.
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Topics of interest may include known challenges, barriers and opportunities concerning academic careers of faculty immigrating to Canada and adjusting to the Canada health-care and academic systems.
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Psy-QIS is the Department’s academic home for faculty and learners engaged in quality improvement and patient safety work. If you are interested in improving clinical outcomes, system innovation, and providing safer care, consider joining Psy-QIS’s regular meetings to network with other like-minded colleagues and gain inspiration for your work.
With Psy-QIS Hub Meetings, a new faculty mentorship group, and more, Psy-QIS provides opportunities for training, collaboration, and access to funding sources in a collegial setting.
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The Mentorship Group for our Status-Only (eg. PhD and other non-MD) faculty will offer a community of practice to support career development needs.
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This mentorship group series has been planned based on input from our faculty mentorship survey and the EDI Promotions Workshop held in Spring 2021. We welcome gender and sexually diverse faculty of underrepresented genders to participate, including cis-women, trans women, trans men, non-binary people and those who are otherwise marginalized.
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This mentorship group is focused on the needs of faculty who identify as racialized women. This initiative is meant to supplement the broader mentorship group for women and underrepresented genders, UPWURD. Individuals who identify as racialized women are welcomed and encouraged to attend both the larger women's mentorship group, and this smaller group, if interested.
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Clinician Teachers - September 30, 2026,12:00 pm -1:00 pm
Topic: Identity as a Clinician Teacher
Join us to discuss the unique role of Clinician Teacher within academic medicine. We will engage with the following questions, among others: What is a clinician teacher? What do clinician teachers do that is different than other academic roles? What is a clinician teacher vs. clinician educator?
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Quality, Innovation and Safety Hub (QIS) - September 22, 2026, 4:00 - 5 :00 pm
Topic: QIS Hub Drop-in #1
Speaker: Co-leads: Dr. Tara Burra and Dr. Andrea Waddell
Please consider joining a meeting of the Department of Psychiatry’s Quality Innovation and Safety Hub. This is the academic home for QIS scholars in the department and is a relaxed and friendly setting to share new projects, identify collaborations and explore funding and dissemination opportunities.
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Clinician Teachers - October 16, 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Topic: Clinician Teachers Group: Meet & Greet with Co-leads
Join us for this special, informal meet-and-greet session at New Faculty Orientation 2026.
In-person at the Faculty Club.
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2SLGTBQ+ Mentorship Group - November 5, 2026, 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Topic: Balancing and Building a Career in Psychiatry as a Queer Psychiatrist
Speaker: Dr. Mark Lachmann
Working in complex institutional spaces is challenging. And then there is working in psychiatry – a field in which we support mental health and which has its own history of engagement (or lack thereof) with many populations. Everyone’s career journey will be unique to them, and Mark has found it helpful to work closely with and for community agencies to manage some of the institutional madness that can challenge us all. Some concrete conversation on promotion and career navigation will be part of our discussion.
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Quality, Innovation and Safety Hub (QIS) - September 22, 2026, 4:00 - 5 :00 pm
Topic: QIS Hub Drop-in #1
Speaker: Co-leads: Dr. Tara Burra and Dr. Andrea Waddell
Please consider joining a meeting of the Department of Psychiatry’s Quality Innovation and Safety Hub. This is the academic home for QIS scholars in the department and is a relaxed and friendly setting to share new projects, identify collaborations and explore funding and dissemination opportunities.
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