The Division’s faculty is engaged in a diverse range of research programs that span great breadth.
Within psychiatry, these include:
gender and leadership in psychiatry,
mentorship programs for residents,
training in tele-psychiatry and collaborative care,
interprofessional care assessment tools for healthcare teams,
intersections among quality improvement and continuing professional development in psychiatry
In Health Arts Humanities, faculty have led funded research on:
medical student reflective writing,
post-graduate medical education portfolio assessment,
projects on resilience and wellbeing in LGBT communities
The faculty has also collaborated on international health team projects, including:
scaling up screening and treatment of mental disorders in primary care, and ER clinical services and training in partnership with Addis Ababa University
developing guidelines for culturally sensitive and equitable globalization projects in medical education based on an international symposium on Canadian and Taiwanese experiences
Other research by divisional members include:
a national study of telephone counselling for mothers with post-partum depression
practice-based research in alliance rupture repair with the national Psychotherapy Practice Research Network (PPRNet)
multisite study of equity, excellence and diversity in medical school admissions processes in a diverse urban setting